- Abbreviations
- Introduction: On Affirmative Reading, or The Lesson of the Chickadees
- Part I. Dyonisia, 467 BC: The Mythology of Mourning
- Introduction: Perpetual Grief and the Example of the Fish Hawks
- Literal Sounds
- Homer’s Music Box
- Aeschylus’s Paean
- Cemeteries of the Brain
- Pindar’s Doubles
- Odysseus, the Lyric, and the Call of the Dead
- The Sound Dream
- Coda: Melville’s Seafowls
- Part II. Cambridge, Massachusetts, circa 1837: The Science of Life
- Introduction: Harvard Vitalism and the Way of the Loon
- Birds
- Fossils
- Stones
- Photographs
- Swamps, Leaves, Galls: A Treatise on Decay
- Coda: Antigone’s Birds
- Part III. Walden Pond, Concord, Massachusetts, 1845: Epistemology of Change
- Introduction: On Embodied Knowledge and the Deliberation of the Crow
- Toward Things as They Are
- Thinking with Geological Velocity
- How to Greet a Tree?
- Contemplating Matter
- The Noontime of the Mind
- Thinking with the Body 1: Walking
- Thinking with the Body 2: Sitting
- Personhood: Who or What?
- Coda: Benjamin’s Seagulls
- Part IV. Ossossané Village, Ontario, 1636: Acts of Recollecting
- Introduction: The Ethics of Communal Mourning and the Flight of the Turtle Dove
- Deathways of Things
- Ragged Fragments and Vital Relics
- The Huron-Wendat Feast of the Dead
- Coda: Pythagoras’s Birds
- Appendix I. Freud and Benjamin on Nature in Mourning
- Appendix II. On Thoreau’s Grave
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
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Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau
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