Thoreau Political Writings

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521476751
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thoreau: Political Writings written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-05-23 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoreau's political writing is intensely personal and direct. Both his life and work focus uncompromisingly on the question 'how should I live?', and for Thoreau, no element of day-to-day existence is left untouched by moral and political issues. This 1996 edition of Thoreau's political essays includes 'Civil Disobedience', selections from Walden, 'Life Without Principle', and the anti-slavery addresses, such as 'Slavery in Massachusetts'. In her introduction, Nancy L. Rosenblum places the essays in the context of Thoreau's life of self-examination, and the debates about the abolition of slavery, and she analyses the themes of citizenship and resistance that have made Thoreau an enduring influence in political philosophy and practice.

Author : Jack Turner
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 081317287X
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau written by Jack Turner and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2009-07-17 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writings of Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) have captivated scholars, activists, and ecologists for more than a century. Less attention has been paid, however, to the author’s political philosophy and its influence on American public life. Although Thoreau’s doctrine of civil disobedience has long since become a touchstone of world history, the greater part of his political legacy has been overlooked. With a resurgence of interest in recent years, A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau is the first volume focused exclusively on Thoreau’s ethical and political thought. Jack Turner illuminates the unexamined aspects of Thoreau’s political life and writings. Combining both new and classic essays, this book offers a fresh and comprehensive understanding of Thoreau’s politics, and includes discussions of subjects ranging from his democratic individualism to the political relevance of his intellectual eccentricity. The collection consists of works by sixteen prominent political theorists and includes an extended bibliography on Thoreau’s politics. A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau is a landmark reference for anyone seeking a better understanding of Thoreau’s complex political philosophy.

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Jpm Ediciones
ISBN 13 : 9788415499138
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Majority of One written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Jpm Ediciones. This book was released on 2014-01-24 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1846, Henry David Thoreau refused to pay his poll taxes, so he was arrested and imprisoned. This formed the basis for his essay "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" (first published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), where he argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have the duty "to stop the machine" of the Government. This volume collects other three reformist essays titled "A Plea for Captain John Brown," "Life without Principle" and "Reform and the Reformers," which complement the key concepts of Thoreau's political ideology.

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770486399
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil Disobedience written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1848, Henry David Thoreau twice delivered lectures in Concord, Massachusetts, on “the relationship of the individual to the state.” The essay now known as Civil Disobedience is a significant and widely admired contribution to abolitionist literature, as well as an anti-war tract, but Thoreau’s focus is less on political organization and solidarity than it is on personal choice and individual responsibility. Cultivating personal integrity in the face of political injustice is the project Thoreau defends in Civil Disobedience; this focus has made the work highly influential for twentieth- and twenty-first-century political movements. Bob Pepperman Taylor’s new Introduction explains the work’s specific political context, helping readers to understand the text as Thoreau wrote it. The edition also offers a number of historical documents on Thoreau’s abolitionism; the war with Mexico; and Thoreau’s philosophical development in relation to other thinkers.

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781484885130
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil Disobedience written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-04 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive collection of Henry David Thoreau's political writings.

Author : Henry Thoreau
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781974468560
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil Disobedience and Other Political Writings written by Henry Thoreau and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-11 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Henry David Thoreau, there was no separation between public politics and personal principle. "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" is his famous account of the night he spent in jail for refusing to pay taxes to a government that supported slavery and waged war. His impassioned stand for justice later inspired Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and many other peaceful revolutionaries. This volume includes Thoreau's other important political writings: "A Plea for Captain John Brown," "Life Without Principle," and the poem "Independence." The Kindle e-book is FREE when you buy the paperback. (Applies to American Renaissance Books edition only.)

Author : Alda Balthrop-Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108835104
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thoreau's Religion written by Alda Balthrop-Lewis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boldly reconfigures Walden for contemporary ethics and politics by recovering Thoreau's theological vision of environmental justice.

Author : James S. Finley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108500978
Total Pages : 655 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry David Thoreau in Context written by James S. Finley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well known for his contrarianism and solitude, Henry David Thoreau was nonetheless deeply responsive to the world around him. His writings bear the traces of his wide-ranging reading, travels, political interests, and social influences. Henry David Thoreau in Context brings together leading scholars of Thoreau and nineteenth-century American literature and culture and presents original research, valuable synthesis of historical and scholarly sources, and innovative readings of Thoreau's texts. Across thirty-four chapters, this collection reveals a Thoreau deeply concerned with and shaped by a diverse range of environments, intellectual traditions, social issues, and modes of scientific practice. Essays also illuminate important posthumous contexts and consider the specific challenges of contextualizing Thoreau today. This collection provides a rich understanding of Thoreau and nineteenth-century American literature, political activism, and environmentalist thinking that will be a vital resource for students, teachers, scholars, and general readers.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438121679
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry David Thoreau written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a biography of Henry David Thoreau along with critical views of his work.

Author : Jane Bennett
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742521414
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thoreau's Nature written by Jane Bennett and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoreau's Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild explores how Thoreau crafted a life open to 'the Wild,' a term that marks the startling element of foreignness in every object of experience, however familiar. Thoreau's encounters with nature, Bennett argues, allowed him to resist his all-too-human tendency toward intellectual laziness, social conformity, and political complacency. Bennett pursues this theme by constructing a series of dialogues between Thoreau and our contemporaries: Foucault on identity and power, Haraway on the nature/culture of division, Hollywood celebrities on the Walden Woods Project, the National Endowment for the Humanities on politics and art, and Kafka on the question of political idealism. The pertinence to the late 20th century of Thoreau's pursuit of independent judgment, ecological foresight, and moral nobility becomes apparent through these engagements.