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


Echoes from Walden: Poems Inspired by Thoreau's Life and Work - David K. Leff, ed. $18.00
Patriots of Color in Revolutionary New England (1775-1790) - John Hannigan $2.00
WP Walden Pond oval bumper sticker (Small) $1.50
Sibley's Common Trees of Trails & Forests of the Northeast & Upper Midwest (folding guide) - David Allen Sibley $10.99
"Time is but the Stream" T-Shirt with Thoreau Quote $27.95
A Week on the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers: Thoreau's 1861 Minnesota Journey Revisited - David R. Solheim (SIGNED) $29.95
Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau - Ben Shattuck $22.95
The Gospel According to This Moment: The Spiritual Message of Henry David Thoreau - Barry M. Andrews (paperback) $27.95
The Hidden Life of Trees - Peter Wohlleben & Jane Billinghurst $28.95