Imagination and Environmental Political Thought - The Aftermath of Thoreau

This book explores and evaluates Henry David Thoreau’s political thought through the lens of a theory of imagination and considers his legacy for later environmental thought. This book will interest anyone curious about Thoreau’s relationship to environmentalism and the intersection of environmental humanities and politics.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Imagination and Political Thought
Chapter 1: Politics and Imagination
Chapter 2: Imagination and Environmental Political Thought
Part II: Thoreau's Political Thought
Chapter 3: Life with Principle: Thoreau and Political Morality
Chapter 4: Resistance and Right
Chapter 5: Life with People: Thoreau on Friendship and Community
Part III: Environmental Political Thought in the Aftermath of Thoreau
Chapter 6: Thoreau and the Arcadian Longing
Chapter 7: Thoreau, the Arcadian Exile
Chapter 8: Infinite Arcadia
Chapter 9: Arcadian Ecology
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Joshua J. Bowman is a post doctoral fellow with the Louisiana State University Department of Political Science and the Eric Voegelin Institute.

Zusammenfassung

This book explores and evaluates Henry David Thoreau's political thought through the lens of a theory of imagination and considers his legacy for later environmental thought. This book will interest anyone curious about Thoreau's relationship to environmentalism and the intersection of environmental humanities and politics.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Joshua J Bowman, Joshua J. Bowman
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781498559027
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-5902-7
• Seiten: 200
• Serien: Politics, Literature, & Film; Politics, Literature, & Film
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; USA, English, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics, Political science & theory, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Political science and theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Environmentalist thought and ideology