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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.
| Series Editor's Introduction | ||
| Preface | ||
| Bibliographical Key | ||
| 1 | Why Thoreau Hates Politics | 1 |
| 2 | Techniques of the Self | 16 |
| 3 | Writing a Heteroverse | 47 |
| 4 | Art and Politics | 78 |
| 5 | Fronting Thoreau | 105 |
| Index | 139 | |
| About the Author | 141 |
Overview
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 ...