Inserting a nineteent century thinker into the intellectual debates of the late twentieth century, Jane Bennett enters Thoreau into a series of dialogues with recent contemporary thinkers: Foucault on the question of identity and power; Donna Haraway on nature and culture; Hollywood celebrities on the Walden Woods project on the environment; the National Endowment for the Humanities and others regarding the relation between politics and arts; and Kafka on the question of political idealism. Bennett suggests that many dimensions of Thoreau′s thought exhibit a ′postmodern sensibility′ that crosses into the late twentieth century.
- ISBN10 0803938683
- ISBN13 9780803938687
- Publish Date 27 October 1994 (first published 19 October 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint SAGE Publications Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 176
- Language English