Henry David Thoreau and nineteenth-century natural science
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2010
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University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI
Machine generated contents note:1.Facts and Truth: Transcendental Science from Cambridge to Concord --Nominalists, Realists, Idealists: Harvard and After, 1837 --Romantic Theologies --Natural History before Walden --2.Empire of Thought and the...
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Machine generated contents note:1.Facts and Truth: Transcendental Science from Cambridge to Concord --Nominalists, Realists, Idealists: Harvard and After, 1837 --Romantic Theologies --Natural History before Walden --2.Empire of Thought and the Republic of Particulars --Law as Logos --Rational Holism --Organic Machine: Making Matter Mind --Emergent Laws --Empirical Holism --3.Seeing New Worlds: Thoreau and Humboldtian Science --Alexander von Humboldt, the "Napoleon of Science" --Fronting Nature at Walden, 1845-1847 --After Walden: Old Worlds and New --4.Cosmos: Knowing as Worlding --Thoreau as Humboldtian --Relational Knowing: Thoreau's Epistemology of Contact --Writing the Cosmos: Walden --5.Plurality of Worlds --Intentions of the Eye --Worlds without End: The Dispersion of Seeds --Transcendentalist at the Cattle Show: Thoreau's Ironic Science --6.Walking the Holy Land --Contingent Wholes: A Few Herbs and Apples --Chance and Necessity: The Laughter of the Loon --"Walking, or the Wild" --Conclusion: Disciplining Thoreau.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-293) and index. - Description based on print version record
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