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Thoreau's Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture - Caleb Smith (SIGNED)
Thoreau's Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture - Caleb Smith
 
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Explores the strange, beautiful archives of the nineteenth-century attention revival: from a Protestant minister's warning against frivolous thoughts, to Thoreau's reflections on wakefulness at Walden Pond. Examines how Americans came to embrace attention, mindfulness, and other ways of being "spiritual be not religious," and how older Christian ideas about temptation and spiritual devotion endure in our modern ideas about distraction and attention. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE.
Princeton University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 240 pp.

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