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Mindprints: Thoreau's Material Worlds

Mindprints: Thoreau's Material Worlds - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Ivan GaskellPublish date:2024-11-22Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226836072ISBN-10:022683607XUPC:9780226836072Book Category:Philosophy, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Aesthetics, Mind & Body, AmericanSize:9.06 x 6.14 x 0.87 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCJF0RPGBQ
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, he 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 re-created by other beings every day. In this book, Ivan Gaskell explores how a profound environmental aesthetics developed from this insight and shaped Thoreau's broader thought.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226836072ISBN-10:022683607XUPC:9780226836072Book Category:Philosophy, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Aesthetics, Mind & Body, AmericanSize:9.06 x 6.14 x 0.87 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCJF0RPGBQ
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.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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