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

by Mooney, Edward F.

• ISBN13: 9781441181664
• ISBN10: 1441181660
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-23
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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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.

Table of Contents

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I. Introduction 1. Thoreau and Others: Thinking from Imagination and the Heart Part II. Henry Bugbee, Thoreau, And Cavell 2. A Philosophy in Wilderness 3. A Lyric Philosophy of Place 4. Death and the Sublime: Henry Bugbee's In Demonstration of the Spirit 5. Becoming What We Pray: Passion's Gentler Resolutions 6. Two Testimonies in American Philosophy: Stanley Cavell, Henry Bugbee Part III. Five Praising Explorations 7. Stanley Cavell - Acknowledgment, Suffering and Praise: A Religious Continental Thinker 8. Bruce Wilshire: The Breathtaking Intimacy of the Material World9. Henry James - An Ethics of Intimate Conversation: Is the Unacknowledged Life Worth Living?10. Preservative Care: Saving Intimate Voice in the Humanities 11. J. Glenn Grey and Hannah Arendt - Squires in this Vale of Tears:: Poetry in a Time of War 12. Thoreau's Translations: John Brown, Applies, LiliesConclusionsBibliographyIndex