Thoreau and the Sociological Imagination
The Wilds of Society| By: | Shawn Chandler Bingham |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury USA |
| Print ISBN: | 9780742560581 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781461646198 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2008 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Thoreau and the Sociological Imagination: The Wilds of Society is the first in-depth sociological examination of the ideas of Henry David Thoreau. Through explorations of Thoreau's intellectual links to early social thinkers, as well as the mainstay Thoreauvian concerns for the individual-society relationship, social change, and deconstructing society's idea of progress, Bingham illustrates the sophistication of Thoreau's sociological imagination challenging readers to re-examine the disciplinary boundaries between the social sciences and the humanities.