Lost Intimacy in American Thought Recovering Personal Philosophy From Thoreau to Cavell

by Mooney, Edward F.

• ISBN13: 9781441168580
• ISBN10: 1441168583
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-23
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Offers a critique of rationalism in contemporary American thought by recovering a lost tradition of intimacy in the writings of Thoreau, Bugbee, James, Arendt, Dickinson, Fuller, Wilshire and Cavell.

Author Biography

Edward F. Mooney is Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Syracuse University, NY, USA. His publications include On Soren Kierkegaard (Ashgate, 2007)

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction
Thoreau and Others: Thinking from Imagination and the Heart	p. 3
Henry Bugbee, Thoreau, Cavell
A Philosophy in Wilderness	p. 19
A Lyric Philosophy of Place	p. 31
Death and the Sublime: Henry Bugbee's In Demonstration of the Spirit	p. 53
Becoming What We Pray: Passion's Gentler Resolutions	p. 78
Two Testimonies in American Philosophy: Stanley Cavell	p. 93
Six Praising Explorations
Stanley Cavell—Acknowledgment, Suffering, and Praise: A Religious Continental Thinker	p. 111
Bruce Wilshire: The Breathtaking Intimacy of the Material World	p. 129
Henry James—An Ethics of Intimate Conversation: Is the Unacknowledged Life Worth Living?	p. 141
Preservative Care: Saving Intimate Voice in the Humanities	p. 162
J. Glenn Gray and Hannah Arendt—Squires in This Vale of Tears: Poetry in a Time of War	p. 175
Thoreau's Translations: John Brown, Apples, Lilies	p. 194
Conclusion	p. 222
Bibliography	p. 225
Index	p. 231
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