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work_2wxlcgnwiren7bzo6sj2gislcq	Barbara Celarent	Walden; or, Life in the Woods. By Henry David Thoreau. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1854. Pp. 357	2009.0	8	.pdf	application/pdf	3804	236	66	Walden; or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau Walden; or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau foot was firmly placed in Thoreau's home turf—the normative understanding of social life. Thoreau's embedding of humanity in nature is clearest not in his arguments but in his choice of metaphors. that Thoreau aims to exchange society for nature. While Thoreau's insertion of man in nature shapes his theory of society For such readers, Thoreau rejected not only capitalism and commerce, but indeed everyday social life itself. "strong and valiant natures" that Thoreau thinks have no need to read "natural." "The Ponds" hymns Walden's purity and its place in the endless Yet nature, to Thoreau, is an honest society, and in that sense an ideal Indeed, one can imagine Thoreau writing a book like Walden about human society. And our aim, like Thoreau's, is to see (social) life as it really is,	./cache/work_2wxlcgnwiren7bzo6sj2gislcq.pdf	./txt/work_2wxlcgnwiren7bzo6sj2gislcq.txt