Home > Books >

Thoreau's Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture - Caleb Smith (SIGNED)
Thoreau's Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture - Caleb Smith
 
Our Price: $32.00


Product Code: 0691214771

 
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.

Share your knowledge of this product with other customers... Be the first to write a review

Browse for more products in the same category as this item:

Books
Books > Thoreau's World
Books > SIGNED


Blank Journal: Red Fox $9.95
Thoreau Society Bulletin 317 Spring 2022 $8.50
Field Guide to the Mid-Atlantic States - Peter Alden, Brian Cassie (SIGNED) $26.95
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times - Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams, Gail Hudson $28.00
"Thoreau’s Cabin Replica in Spring" (11 x 14 Matted Print) – Alice Wellington $50.00
1967 Limited Edition Postage Stamp, Henry David Thoreau $5.95
The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance - Henry Petroski $26.00
Mergus merganser (Common merganser) Note Card - John Caffrey $5.00