Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Abbreviations ix
4. Introduction: On Affirmative Reading, or The Lesson of the Chickadees 1
5. Part I. Dyonisia, 467 BC: The Mythology of Mourning 27
6. Part II. Cambridge, Massachusetts, circa 1837: The Science of Life 115
7. Part III. Walden Pond, Concord, Massachusetts, 1845: Epistemology of Change 249
8. Part IV. Ossossané Village, Ontario, 1636: Acts of Recollecting 323
9. Appendix I: Freud and Benjamin on Nature in Mourning 369
10. Appendix II: On Thoreau’s Grave 385
11. Notes 389
12. Acknowledgments 443
13. Index 447