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Henry David Thoreau
Tadeusz Slawek
其他書名
Grasping the Community of the World
出版
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
, 2014
主題
Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
Philosophy / General
Philosophy / Movements / Existentialism
Philosophy / Movements / Phenomenology
Philosophy / Political
ISBN
3653026512
9783653026511
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=vevAzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
This study takes up Thoreau's work as an early and prophetic diagnosis of the modern crisis of relationships between the individual and society. Thus Adorno's formulation of «a melancholy of science» finds its predecessor in Thoreau's famous dictum from the early pages of
Walden
that we live our lives in quiet desperation. The author reads Thoreau's
Journal
as an attempt to refute tendencies towards the narrowing of life to being understood merely in techno-economic categories which threaten the quality of the development of both the individual and the community. Thus in literary scholarship it is essential to find strategies which will critically contribute to understanding and transforming what Auerbach called «ways of life» and what Barthes referred to as «living-together».