EAN: 9788822903709 ISBN: 9788822903709
EN. This essay serves the double purpose of investigating the aesthetic dimensions of Thoreau’s environmental philosophy while examining the philosophical and political implications of its capacity to break down the boundaries between the natural and the technological landscape. Deeply rooted in an Emersonian transcendentalist tradition viewing nature as an organized and holistic “whole,” Thoreau’s ecophilosophy seeks to reconcile the idealistic pole with the empirical pole in its approach to natural and technological landscapes, objects and situations. Consequently, this book starts by considering Thoreau as a “techno-author” who does not shun from embracing technological change in the Romantic period and proceeds to develop an alternative, proto-ecocritical form of the aesthetic of the sublime. It also calls for a reconsideration of Thoreau’s poetics and its legacy against the background of the “toxic sublime,” which sheds a new light on the methods and purposes of ecocriticism as well as on recent trends in environmental (non)fiction.IT. Questo saggio si propone il duplice scopo di studiare la dimensione estetica della filosofia ambientale di Thoreau e di analizzare le implicazioni filosofico-politiche della sua capacità di abbattere i confini tra paesaggio naturale e paesaggio tecnologico. Profondamente radicata nella tradizione trascendentalista di Emerson, che vede lo spazio naturale come un “tutto” organizzato e olistico, l’eco-filosofia di Thoreau cerca di riconciliar
