UID:
almafu_9959237587202883
Format:
1 online resource (177 p.)
ISBN:
0-7914-7747-9
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1-4356-9549-6
Content:
Looks at the connections between Thoreau's Walden and the work that influenced it, the Bhagavad-Gita.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Intro -- The Gita within Walden -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "God -- 2. Historical Retrospect -- The Unique Individual Creates Scripture -- Complex Origins -- History of the Gita Connection -- 3. The Case for Shared Absolutes -- 4. Life SymbolsThat Essentialize -- Ax/Axis/Axes -- The Upside-Down Tree -- The Field (kshetra )/"The Bean-Field" -- Eye and Light -- 5. Social and Ethical Absolutes -- Courage/Cowardice -- Sincerity/Hypocrisy -- Egalitarianism/Elitism -- 6. Purity -- 7. Reality and Being -- Body and Self/Spirit -- Matter and the Levels of Spirit -- Essence and Tropology: Synecdoche and thePunch of Cumulative, Climactic, Terminal Metaphor -- Denial of Opposites -- Liberation from Delusion -- The Infi nitudes, Especially of Time -- 8. Three Ways to God -- Preamble: Yoga -- Work (karma) -- Knowledge -- Faith (ßraddhå )/Loving Devotion (bhakti ) -- 9. The Gita within Walden Expanded: A Poetics for Activism -- Gita, Gandhi, Walden, King:The Making of a Political Classic -- Conclusions -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7914-7617-0
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780791477472
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