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Thoreau's religion : Walden woods, social justice, and the politics of asceticism
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ISBN: 1108883389 1108891608 1108890458 1108835104 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press,

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Thoreau's Religion presents a ground-breaking interpretation of Henry David Thoreau's most famous book, Walden. Rather than treating Walden Woods as a lonely wilderness, Balthrop-Lewis demonstrates that Thoreau's ascetic life was a form of religious practice dedicated to cultivating a just, multispecies community. The book makes an important contribution to scholarship in religious studies, political theory, English, environmental studies, and critical theory by offering the first sustained reading of Thoreau's religiously motivated politics. In Balthrop-Lewis's vision, practices of renunciation like Thoreau's can contribute to the reformation of social and political life. In this, the book transforms Thoreau's image, making him a vital source for a world beset by inequality and climate change. Balthrop-Lewis argues for an environmental politics in which ecological flourishing is impossible without economic and social justice.


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Thoreau's religion : Walden woods, social justice, and the politics of asceticism
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ISBN: 9781108835107 9781108799676 9781108891608 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Thoreau in an Age of Crisis : Uses and Abuses of an American Icon
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ISBN: 3846765457 Year: 2021 Publisher: Paderborn Brill | Fink

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Blick ins Buch Thoreau in an Age of Crisis reconsiders the relevance of 19th-century American naturalist, philosopher, and social reformer Henry David Thoreau to our troubled present. This new anthology collects the work of fourteen leading scholars from various disciplines. They consider Thoreau's life and work in light of contemporary concerns regarding racism, climate change, environmental policy, and political strife. They review Thoreau's trajectory as a scientist and literary artist, as well as his evolving attitudes toward Native American cultures. The essaysists also consider Thoreau's acoustics, concepts of play, and impact on later writers. Most provocatively, they reveal a vulnerable and empathetic Thoreau, a far cry from the distanced and misanthropic critic often portrayed in popular culture.


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This land is our land : the struggle for a new commonwealth
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ISBN: 0691216800 Year: 2021 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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From one of our finest writers and leading environmental thinkers, a powerful book about how the land we share divides us—and how it could unite usToday, we are at a turning point as we face ecological and political crises that are rooted in conflicts over the land itself. But these problems can be solved if we draw on elements of our tradition that move us toward a new commonwealth—a community founded on the well-being of all people and the natural world. In this brief, powerful, timely, and hopeful book, Jedediah Purdy explores how we might begin to heal our fractured and contentious relationship with the land and with each other.

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Political science. --- Accounting. --- Activism. --- American exceptionalism. --- Americans. --- Ammon Bundy. --- Barbarian. --- Bernie Sanders. --- By-product. --- Capitalism. --- Civil disobedience. --- Clean Water Act. --- Climate change. --- Coal mining. --- Coal. --- Colonization. --- Denialism. --- Die-in. --- Disaster. --- Disenchantment. --- Disgust. --- Dissident. --- Drinking water. --- Duke University. --- Ecological crisis. --- Employment. --- Energy development. --- Engineering. --- Environmental Defense Fund. --- Environmental issue. --- Environmental justice. --- Environmental law. --- Environmental movement. --- Environmental politics. --- Environmental stewardship. --- Environmentalism. --- Environmentalist. --- Exhaustion. --- Exit poll. --- Exoskeleton. --- Faculty of Law. --- Fuel. --- Future generation. --- Gilded Age. --- Global catastrophic risk. --- Green New Deal. --- Harvard University. --- Henry David Thoreau. --- Household. --- Human power. --- Indigenous peoples. --- Infrastructure. --- Institution. --- Interdependence. --- Labour movement. --- Lecture. --- Legislation. --- Legislator. --- Martin Luther King, Jr. --- Meriwether Lewis. --- Military occupation. --- Mining. --- Moral Mondays. --- Narrative. --- Natural disaster. --- Our Choice. --- Overburden. --- Pasture. --- Pauli Murray. --- Politics. --- Pollutant. --- Pollution. --- Princeton University Press. --- Priscilla Wald. --- Proclamation. --- Racism. --- Romanticism. --- Ruler. --- Sanctuary movement. --- Sasson. --- Slavery. --- Soil. --- Sorkin. --- Sovereignty. --- Statute. --- Surface runoff. --- Symptom. --- Ta-Nehisi Coates. --- Tax. --- Tehila. --- Theory of value (economics). --- Thomas Hobbes. --- University of Cambridge. --- Utopia. --- Value of life. --- Vulnerability. --- Wage. --- War on coal. --- Wealth. --- White supremacy. --- World government.

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