Mindprints: Thoreau's Material Worlds - Hardcover

Gaskell, Ivan

 
9780226836072: Mindprints: Thoreau's Material Worlds
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 022683607X ISBN 13: 9780226836072
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

A rediscovery of Thoreau’s interactions with everyday objects and how they shaped his thought.
 
Though we may associate Henry David Thoreau with ascetic renunciation, Thoreau accumulated a variety of tools, art, and natural specimens throughout his life as a homebuilder, surveyor, and collector. In some of these objects, particularly Indigenous artifacts, Thoreau perceived the presence of their original makers, and he called such objects “mindprints.” Thoreau believed that these collections could teach him how his experience, his world, fit into the wider, more diverse (even incoherent) assemblage of other worlds created and recreated by other beings every day. In this book, Gaskell explores how a profound environmental aesthetics developed from this insight and shaped Thoreau’s broader thought.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ivan Gaskell is professor of cultural history and museum studies at the Bard Graduate Center. He is the author or editor of several books, most recently Paintings and the Past: Philosophy, History, Art.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
022683607X
ISBN 13 
9780226836072
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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