Lost intimacy in American thought : recovering personal philosophy from Thoreau to Cavell /
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New York :
Continuum,
[2009]
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Table of Contents:
- Thoreau and others : thinking from imagination and the heart
- A philosophy in wilderness
- A lyric philosophy of place
- Death and the sublime : Henry Bugbee's In demonstration of the spirit
- Becoming what we pray : passion's gentler resolutions
- Two testimonies in American philosophy : Stanley Cavell, Henry Bugbee
- Stanley Cavell : acknowledgment, suffering, and praise : a religious continental thinker
- Bruce Wilshire : the breathtaking intimacy of the material world
- Henry James : an ethics of intimate conversation : is the unacknowledged life worth living?
- Preservative care : saving intimate voice in the humanities
- J. Glenn Gray and Hannah Arendt : squires in this vale of tears : poetry in a time of war
- Thoreau's translations : John Brown, apples, lilies.