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Published in 2019 at "Critical Inquiry"
DOI: 10.1086/703963
Abstract: “Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things,”Henry David Thoreau writes inWalden (1854). In the century and a half since Thoreau withdrew to the Massachusetts woods, his thinking…
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Keywords:
thoreau;
secular age;
attention;
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