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Henry at Work
Thoreau on Making a Living
Buch von John Kaag (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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"In this book, John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle illuminate an underexplored aspect of worked-over cultural icon Henry David Thoreau and what his thinking has to tell us about the way we work now. Henry at Work overturns the popular perception of Thoreau as a navel-gazing recluse, scornful of work and other mundanities. Just the opposite, they argue, Thoreau worked hard and thought intensely about work: why we do it, what we hope to gain from it, and what it does to us. They aim to show readers not only Thoreau the writer and philosopher, but also the lesser-known Thoreau: Thoreau the worker, economist, and even the efficiency expert"--
"In this book, John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle illuminate an underexplored aspect of worked-over cultural icon Henry David Thoreau and what his thinking has to tell us about the way we work now. Henry at Work overturns the popular perception of Thoreau as a navel-gazing recluse, scornful of work and other mundanities. Just the opposite, they argue, Thoreau worked hard and thought intensely about work: why we do it, what we hope to gain from it, and what it does to us. They aim to show readers not only Thoreau the writer and philosopher, but also the lesser-known Thoreau: Thoreau the worker, economist, and even the efficiency expert"--
Über den Autor
John Kaag is the Donohue Professor of Ethics and the Arts at UMass Lowell and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. His books include Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are and Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life (Princeton). Jonathan van Belle is an independent scholar and former philosophy editor at [...]. He is also coeditor with Kaag of the anthology Be Not Afraid of Life: In the Words of William James (Princeton).
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Fachbereich: Populäre Darstellungen
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780691244693
ISBN-10: 0691244693
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Kaag, John
Belle, Jonathan van
Hersteller: Princeton University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 225 x 152 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: John Kaag (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.06.2023
Gewicht: 0,463 kg
Artikel-ID: 124104531
Über den Autor
John Kaag is the Donohue Professor of Ethics and the Arts at UMass Lowell and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. His books include Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are and Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life (Princeton). Jonathan van Belle is an independent scholar and former philosophy editor at [...]. He is also coeditor with Kaag of the anthology Be Not Afraid of Life: In the Words of William James (Princeton).
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Fachbereich: Populäre Darstellungen
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780691244693
ISBN-10: 0691244693
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Kaag, John
Belle, Jonathan van
Hersteller: Princeton University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 225 x 152 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: John Kaag (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.06.2023
Gewicht: 0,463 kg
Artikel-ID: 124104531
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