The Senses of Walden: An Expanded EditionUniversity of Chicago Press, 2013 M02 11 - 168 pages Stanley Cavell, one of America's most distinguished philosophers, has written an invaluable companion volume to Walden, a seminal book in our cultural heritage. This expanded edition includes two essays on Emerson. |
Contents
The Senses of Walden | 1 |
Words | 3 |
Sentences | 36 |
Portions | 70 |
Thinking of Emerson | 121 |
An Emerson Mood | 139 |
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acknowledge American Scholar answer awakened beans beginning believe book's bottom Brahma Chanticleer claim Concord condition creation dawn Days of Heaven Descartes despair earth empiricism England epic epistemology essay existence experience expression Ezekiel fact faith fate father tongue genius hear heaven Heidegger hence heroic book hoeing hope human idea imagination Kant Kant's keep knowledge labor Leo Marx literary literature lives loon lost means meditation ment merely mezuzah mind mood moulting mysteries nation nature neighbors object one's ordinary language philosophy ourselves parable paragraph perhaps philosophy poetry pond present prophecy prophets question readers realize reason relation requires seems Senses of Walden sentence society speak specific stand Stanley Cavell thee thing-in-itself things Thinking of Emerson Thoreau thou thought tion transcendental Transcendentalist true turn understand unto Vishnu Purana vision Walden Pond whim Wittgenstein woods words writer of Walden XVIII