Author: Royal Society of New ZealandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Transactions
Author: Royal Society of New ZealandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Above Time
Author: James Robert GuthriePublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826263771
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
"In Above Time, James R. Guthrie explores the origins of the two preeminent transcendentalists' revolutionary approaches to time, as well as to the related concepts of history, memory, and change. Most critical discussions of this period neglect the important truth that the entire American transcendentalist project involved a transcendence of temporality as well as of materiality. Correspondingly, both writers call in their major works for temporal reform, to be achieved primarily by rejecting the past and future in order to live in an amplified present moment. Emerson and Thoreau were compelled to see time in a new light by concurrent developments in the sciences and the professions. Geologists were just then hotly debating the age of the earth, while zoologists were beginning to unravel the mysteries of speciation, and archaeologists were deciphering the Egyptian hieroglyphs. These discoveries worked collectively to enlarge the scope of time, thereby helping pave the way for the appearance of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859. Well aware of these wider cultural developments, Emerson and Thoreau both tried (although with varying degrees of success) to integrate contemporary scientific thought with their preexisting late-romantic idealism. As transcendentalists, they already believed in the existence of "correspondences"--Affinities between man and nature, formalized as symbols. These symbols could then be decoded to discover the animating presence in the world of eternal laws as pervasive as the laws of science. Yet unlike scientists, Emerson and Thoreau hoped to go beyond merely understanding nature to achieving a kind of passionate identity with it, and they believed that such a union might be achieved only if time was first recognized as being a purely human construct with little or no validity in the rest of the natural world. Consequently, both authors employ a series of philosophical, rhetorical, and psychological strategies designed to jolt their readers out of time, often by attacking received cultural notions about temporality."--Publishers website
Climatic cycles and tree-growth: a study of the annual rings of trees in
Author: Andrew Ellicott DouglassPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Tree-ring Research
Author: Climatic Cycles and Tree-growth: A study of the annual rings of trees in relation to climate and solar activity
Author: Andrew Ellicott DouglassPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bioclimatology
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Transactions and Proceedings
Author: Royal Society of New ZealandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The Scientific Monthly
Author: James McKeen CattellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
The Century
Author: Expect Great Things
Author: Kevin DannPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399184678
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Now in paperback, this thrilling, meticulous biography by naturalist and historian Kevin Dann fills a gap in our understanding of Henry Thoreau, one modern history's most important spiritual visionaries by capturing the full arc of his life as a mystic, spiritual seeker, and explorer in transcendental realms. This acclaimed, epic biography of Henry David Thoreau sees Thoreau's world as the mystic himself saw it: filled with wonder and mystery; Native American myths and lore; wood sylphs, nature spirits, and fairies; battles between good and evil; and heroic struggles to live as a natural being in an increasingly synthetic world. Above all, Expect Great Things critically and authoritatively captures Thoreau's simultaneously wild and intellectually keen sense of the mystical, mythical, and supernatural. Other historians have skipped past or undervalued these aspects of Thoreau's life. In this groundbreaking work, historian and naturalist Kevin Dann restores Thoreau's esoteric visions and explorations to their rightful place as keystones of the man himself.
The Atlas of Early Man
Author: Jacquetta HawkesPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312097462
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Surveys concurrent developments of ancient history in various parts of the world, covering the time from 35,000 B.C. to 500 A. D.