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The Senses of Walden

Name: The Senses of Walden
Author: Stanley Cavell
ISBN: 9780226098135

by Stanley Cavell, Henry David Thoreau

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Overview

Stanley Cavell, one of America's most distinguished philosophers, has written an invaluable companion volume to Walden, a seminal book in our cultural heritage. This expanded edition includes two essays on Emerson.

A companion to Thoreau's Walden which "clarifies Thoreau's meditations on the concept of civil disobedience, injustice and nature." Booklist

Synopsis

About the Author, Stanley Cavell

Stanley Cavell is the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value at Harvard University and the author of many books. These include Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome, In Quest of the Ordinary, Themes out of School, and This New Yet Unapproachable America, all published by the University of Chicago Press.