The Readers' Thoreau | Henrik Otterberg | Activity https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/members/tawnygrammar/activity/ Activity feed for Henrik Otterberg. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:33:13 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 ee7f9a0652ff8b880cb11f1f489c1cf2 Henrik Otterberg left a comment on a post Economy 30-44 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-30-44/#comment-6684 Wed, 25 Mar 2020 12:30:33 -0500 This is wonderful, Paul, thank you so much for the imaginative perspective. It reminds me of a passage in Thoreau’s “A Winter Walk” essay of 1843, where he narrates coming to a woodcutter’s clearing on his ramble, […]

]]> 0 9002627ed792d44e3559746c8dda9eaa Henrik Otterberg left a comment on a post Solitude in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/solitude/#comment-5447 Mon, 18 Feb 2019 22:02:12 -0500 Wonderful Mike, so good of your to allow your full PDF to be shared here!

I urge anyone interested in this problematic to consult Mike’s Transcendental Ethos, p. 22 ff.

Here Cousin gets a fuller gloss and […]

]]> 0 e0907ab04b2cec57fd995c2b7d8dedc0 Henrik Otterberg left a comment on a post Solitude in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/solitude/#comment-5445 Mon, 18 Feb 2019 21:41:06 -0500 I agree with Mike that Emerson’s notion of the “me” and “not me” in his essay “Nature” (1836) may also be at play here. Interestingly, Victor Cousin in his Introduction to the History of Philosophy (1828-29; B […]

]]> 0 4692e51ab261befde5e34cc104d6836a Henrik Otterberg left a comment on a post Economy 71-81 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-71-81/#comment-4639 Fri, 23 Feb 2018 14:19:20 -0500 This is a very good question. As Thoreau’s next paragraph § 82 makes clear, the numbers given here are to be seen as “comparative” at best. In a generous mood, one might say that Thoreau’s narrator strives to […]

]]> 0 65f8f983124b1579f5536d473759145b Henrik Otterberg left a comment on a post Where I Lived, And What I Lived For 1-12 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/where-i-lived-and-what-i-lived-for/where-i-lived-and-what-i-lived-for-1-12/#comment-4379 Fri, 10 Nov 2017 08:05:53 -0500 This is a perceptive comment by Alireza, which asks us to probe deeper into Thoreau’s writing; always difficult, but always rewarding in the end. As inspired by Alireza, I wonder if the passage also touches on the […]

]]> 0 4be176006c26fc76e09a6924685c1ce0 Henrik Otterberg left a comment on a post Economy 30-44 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-30-44/#comment-3650 Sat, 16 Sep 2017 13:59:32 -0500 Thoreau borrows liberally here from a now largely forgotten treatise, Loring Dudley Chapin’s Vegetable Kingdom; or, Handbook of Plants and Fruits (New York, J. Lott, 1843). From Sattelmeyer’s Thoreau’s Rea […]

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