Description
Book SynopsisDetails a fresh approach to an American classic
Trade ReviewThe essays often return to the same quotations and ideas, illuminating Walden's darker, more obscure passages from various philosophical and theoretical perspectives—thought experiments that read like a thick layering of superimposed snapshots that Ray has taken from different angles of Walden's pages. . . . Ray's collection of readings never resolve themselves into a single argument, always teetering on the brink of explanation. Yet its evasive technique may be Walden x 40's greatest charm, pointing the reader back to Walden itself so that she might engage in her own interrogations.
* Times Literary Supplement *
Table of ContentsBibliographical Note
Introduction
1. Adventure
2. Ants
3. Awake
4. Baskets
5. Books
6. Colors
7. Death
8. Distance
9. Drummer
10. Experiment
11. Fashion
12. Flute
13. Full of Hope
14. Genius
15. Good and Evil
16. Higher Laws
17. Idleness
18. July 4, 1845
19. Kittlybenders
20. Leaving Walden
21. Moulting
22. Name
23. Numbers
24. Obscurity
25. Opportunity
26. Philosopher
27. Proving
28. Question
29. Readers
30. Rents
31. Ruins
32. Spider
33. Stripped
34. Tracks and paths
35. Unexplorable
36. Vocation
37. Without bounds
38. X marks Walden's depth
39. Years
40. Zanzibar
Notes
Annotated Bibliography
Index
