Lessons From Walden

Author : Bob Pepperman Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780268107338
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lessons from Walden written by Bob Pepperman Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout this original and passionate book, Bob Pepperman Taylor presents a wide-ranging inquiry into the nature and implications of Henry David Thoreau's thought in Walden and Civil Disobedience. As Taylor says in his introduction, " Walden is a central American text for addressing two of the central crises of our time: the increasingly alarming threats we now face to democratic norms, practices, and political institutions, and the perhaps even more alarming environmental dangers confronting us." Taylor pursues this inquiry in three chapters, each focusing on a single theme: chapter 1 examines simplicity and the ethics of "voluntary poverty," chapter 2 looks at civil disobedience and the role of "conscience" in democratic politics, and chapter 3 concentrates on what "nature" means to us today and whether we can truly "learn from nature"--and if so, what does it teach? Taylor considers Thoreau's philosophy, and the philosophical problems he raises, from the perspective of a wide range of thinkers and commentators drawn from history, philosophy, the social sciences, and popular media, breathing new life into Walden and asking how it is alive for us today. In Lessons from Walden, Taylor lets all sides have their say, even as he persistently steers the discussion back to a nuanced reading of Thoreau's actual position. With its tone of friendly urgency, this interdisciplinary tour de force will interest students and scholars of American literature, environmental ethics, and political theory. It deserves to be read by a more general readership, including environmental activists, concerned citizens, and anyone troubled with the future of democracy.

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walden written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Thoreau
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141964294
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where I Lived, and What I Lived For written by Henry Thoreau and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-08-25 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. Thoreau's account of his solitary and self-sufficient home in the New England woods remains an inspiration to the environmental movement - a call to his fellow men to abandon their striving, materialistic existences of 'quiet desperation' for a simple life within their means, finding spiritual truth through awareness of the sheer beauty of their surroundings.

Author : Becca Ehrlich
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1640653899
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian Minimalism written by Becca Ehrlich and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-05-17 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ehrlich’s insightful self-help guide will resonate with Christians wishing to streamline an overstuffed life."—Publishers Weekly Logically, we all know our purpose in life is not wrapped up in accumulating possessions, wealth, power, and prestige—Jesus is very clear about that—but society tells us otherwise. Christian Minimalism attempts to cut through our assumptions and society’s lies about what life should look like and invites readers into a life that Jesus calls us to live: one lived intentionally, free of physical, spiritual, and emotional clutter. Written by a woman who simplified her own life and practices these principles daily, this book gives readers a fresh perspective on how to live out God’s grace for us in new and exciting ways and live out our faith in a way that is deeply satisfying.

Author : Robert Beverley Ray
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253223547
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walden X 40 written by Robert Beverley Ray and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: and surrounded me suddenly with the scenery of winter."

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walden written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience: This is Thoreau's classic protest against government's interference with individual liberty. One of the most famous essays ever written, it came to the attention of Gandhi and formed the basis for his passive resistance movement.

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walking written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Laura Dassow Walls
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022634469X
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry David Thoreau written by Laura Dassow Walls and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-07-07 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[The author] traces the full arc of Thoreau’s life, from his early days in the intellectual hothouse of Concord, when the American experiment still felt fresh and precarious, and 'America was a family affair, earned by one generation and about to pass to the next.' By the time he died in 1862, at only forty-four years of age, Thoreau had witnessed the transformation of his world from a community of farmers and artisans into a bustling, interconnected commercial nation. What did that portend for the contemplative individual and abundant, wild nature that Thoreau celebrated? Drawing on Thoreau’s copious writings, published and unpublished, [the author] presents a Thoreau vigorously alive in all his quirks and contradictions: the young man shattered by the sudden death of his brother; the ambitious Harvard College student; the ecstatic visionary who closed Walden with an account of the regenerative power of the Cosmos. We meet the man whose belief in human freedom and the value of labor made him an uncompromising abolitionist; the solitary walker who found society in nature, but also found his own nature in the society of which he was a deeply interwoven part. And, running through it all, Thoreau the passionate naturalist, who, long before the age of environmentalism, saw tragedy for future generations in the human heedlessness around him."--

Author : John Porcellino
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1368027393
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thoreau at Walden written by John Porcellino and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship, but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely." So said Henry David Thoreau in 1845 when he began his famous experiment of living by Walden Pond. In this graphic masterpiece, John Porcellino uses only the words of Thoreau himself to tell the story of those two years off the beaten track. The pared-down text focuses on Thoreau's most profound ideas, and Porcellino's fresh, simple pictures bring the philosopher's sojourn at Walden to cinematic life. For readers who know Walden intimately, this graphic treatment will provide a vivid new interpretation of Thoreau's story. For those who have never read (or never completed!) the original, it presents a contemporary look at a few brave words to live by.

Author : Kevin Dann
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525504710
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Road to Walden written by Kevin Dann and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau traverses on foot from Manhattan to Walden Pond, retracing Thoreau's steps and unlocking the practical principles of the mystic's life in the woods. When Henry David Thoreau launched his experiment in living at Walden Pond, he began by walking beyond the narrow limits of his neighbors, simply by putting himself at a mile remove from Concord's bourgeois epicenter - and a thousand-mile remove from stasis, complacency, and conformity. Kevin Dann emulates and extends Thoreau's experiment in radical self-education. Alternating between personal anecdotes from his spring 2017 walking pilgrimage and other "traveler" encounters and episodes told by Thoreau, Dann structures his book around 12 "injunctions"--distillations of seminal stories about overcoming convention and stasis. In this essential reading for every Thoreau enthusiast, naturalist and historian Kevin Dann brings to life an essential American icon in refreshing and modern way.