Thoreau and the Sociological Imagination The Wilds of Society
, by Bingham, Shawn ChandlerNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780742560581 | 0742560589
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 12/14/2007
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.