Mariotti, Shannon L. <br/><br/>
Thoreau's Democratic Withdrawal :  Alienation, Participation, and Modernity. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (242 pages) 
 - Studies in American Thought and Culture Series .
 - Studies in American Thought and Culture Series .
<br/><br/>Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: Reclaiming Spaces of Withdrawal for Democratic Politics -- Introduction: Reading Thoreau with Adorno -- Part 1 - Two Interlocutors for Thoreau: Adorno and Emerson -- 1 Damaged Life, the Microscopic Gaze, and Adorno's Practice of Negative Dialectics -- 2 Alienated Existence, Focal Distancing, and Emerson's Transcendental Idealism -- Part 2 - Thoreau's Democratic Withdrawal -- 3 Man as Machine: Thoreau and Modern Alienation -- 4 Huckleberrying toward Democracy: Thoreau's Practices of Withdrawal -- 5 Traveling Away from Home: Thoreau's Spaces of Withdrawal -- Conclusion: Alienation and the Anti-Foundationalist Foundation of the Self -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 
<br/><br/> Best known for his two-year sojourn at Walden Pond in Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau is often considered a recluse who emerged from solitude only occasionally to take a stand on the issues of his day. In Thoreau's Democratic Withdrawal, Shannon L. Mariotti explores Thoreau's nature writings to offer a new way of understanding the unique politics of the so-called hermit of Walden Pond. Drawing imaginatively from the twentieth-century German social theorist Theodor W. Adorno, she shows how withdrawal from the public sphere can paradoxically be a valuable part of democratic politics. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780299233938 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862--Political and social views.<br/>Solitude--Political aspects.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3057 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>818/.309