The Political Thought Of Henry David Thoreau

Author : Jonathan McKenzie
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813166322

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The Political Thought of Henry David Thoreau by Jonathan McKenzie Pdf

"In The Political Thought of Henry David Thoreau, Jonathan McKenzie analyzes not only Thoreau's well-known works but also his journals and correspondence to provide a fresh portrait of the Sage of Walden as a radical individualist."--Publisher description.

Author : Jonathan McKenzie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political science
ISBN : 0813166381

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Political Thought of Henry David Thoreau by Jonathan McKenzie Pdf

This work provides a fresh interpretation of Henry Thoreau's political theory through a comprehensive interpretation of public and private writings. While recent critics have opened new vistas in Thoreau interpretation, little attention has been paid to Thoreau's journals and correspondence.

Author : Jack Turner
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813172873

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A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau by Jack Turner Pdf

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 : Cambridge University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0521476755

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Thoreau: Political Writings by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

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 : Jane Bennett
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0742521419

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Thoreau's Nature by Jane Bennett Pdf

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.

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781513263878

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Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

In 1857 Henry David Thoreau moved to a small cabin in the woods near Walden Pond where he lived as a recluse from society for just over two years. In his time of self-prescribed isolation, Thoreau recorded his daily routine and reflections in an effort to get away from the noise brought about by a mainstream society. His work became one of the most influential American literary works of all time. /> Thoreau’s daily journal entries became the foundation for one of the most well-known works of Transcendental philosophy to this day. Published as one title, Walden is a quasi-memoir and naturalist manifesto that has withstood the test of time. The work continues to inspire generations to switch it up, unplug, and revert to the higher calling of nature.

Author : Joshua J. Bowman
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498559034

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Imagination and Environmental Political Thought by Joshua J. Bowman Pdf

This book explores and evaluates Henry David Thoreau’s political thought through the lens of a theory of imagination and considers his legacy for later environmental thought. This book will interest anyone curious about Thoreau’s relationship to environmentalism and the intersection of environmental humanities and politics.

Author : Lester H. Hunt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350079038

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The Philosophy of Henry Thoreau by Lester H. Hunt Pdf

Henry Thoreau is widely considered to be one of the greatest nature writers, among whose best-known works are Walden and Walking. In this book, Lester Hunt shows that his writings have a compelling philosophical dimension as well. Thoreau seldom argues for his ideas the way other philosophers do. Rather than setting up proofs designed to trap the reader into agreeing with him, he challenges the reader – by means of narratives, jokes, questions, and paradoxes -- to recognize possibilities previously unknown and unexplored. Thoreau's own explorations led him to several distinctively philosophical theories: an intuitionist metaethics, an ethics based on virtue and self-realization, a politics that is fundamentally individualist and anarchist, and a secular religion in which nature is pre-eminent.

Author : Henry David Thoreau,David M. Gross
Publisher : David M Gross
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781434805522

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Price of Freedom by Henry David Thoreau,David M. Gross Pdf

Excerpts from Thoreau's journals concerning civil disobedience, conscience, law, government, slavery, war, and economics. These passages are what Thoreau considered to be "the price of freedom" - his attempts to mine the richest vein of observations about human conscience and political philosophy, and to present what he found free from all censorship.

Author : Jonathan McKenzie
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813166315

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The Political Thought of Henry David Thoreau by Jonathan McKenzie Pdf

Today, Henry David Thoreau's status as one of America's most influential public intellectuals remains unchallenged. Recent scholarship on Thoreau has highlighted his activism as a committed antislavery reformer and proto-environmentalist whose life became a seminal model for the image of the liberal conscience. While modern scholars have firmly established Thoreau's relevance, their focus on his public activism has undervalued the complexity and range of his contributions to American political thought and has neglected crucial facets of his philosophy regarding democratic citizenship. In The Political Thought of Henry David Thoreau, Jonathan McKenzie analyzes not only Thoreau's well-known works but also his journals and correspondence to provide a fresh portrait of the Sage of Walden as a radical individualist. This new account examines the influence that ancient philosophers, particularly the Stoics, had on Thoreau and demonstrates his importance as one of the best modern interpreters of Socrates's vision of the self. McKenzie also argues that Thoreau's own political life was shaped by a theory of privatism that encouraged both a radical simplification of one's commitments and regular engagement in experiments that plumbed life for its most essential values. Shunning grand abstractions and cosmopolitanism in favor of the wonders of daily life, Thoreau's work provides a critique of political and social life that seeks to restore the wholeness of the human subject by rescuing it from the clutches of public concerns. Indeed, McKenzie's nuanced, provocative analysis reveals Thoreau as a multifaceted philosopher who brilliantly wrestled with the complexities of ethical participation in modern democracy.

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781775412465

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Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

Thoreau wrote Civil Disobedience in 1849. It argues the superiority of the individual conscience over acquiescence to government. Thoreau was inspired to write in response to slavery and the Mexican-American war. He believed that people could not be made agents of injustice if they were governed by their own consciences.

Author : Bob Pepperman Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015038154095

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America's Bachelor Uncle by Bob Pepperman Taylor Pdf

"At last, an account that takes Thoreau seriously as a political thinker and makes an unconventional but persuasive case that Thoreau was deeply concerned with our political community: its citizens, its values and institutions, and its future. A fascinating book, easy to recommend". -- Robert Booth Fowler, author of The Dance with Community

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015031909610

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Walden by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

Author : Daniel S. Malachuk
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780700623020

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Two Cities by Daniel S. Malachuk Pdf

Since the late eighteenth century the ideals of political democracy and individual flourishing have become so entangled that most people no longer differentiate them. The American Transcendentalists did. Two Cities is the first comprehensive account of the original but still underrated political thought of this movement, especially that of its three major authors: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau. For decades, Daniel S. Malachuk contends, readers have misinterpreted the Transcendentalists as worshipping democracy and secularizing personhood. Two Cities proves the opposite. Focusing on their major writings, Malachuk presents the Transcendentalists as wresting apart and thus clarifying democracy as a profane project and individuality as a sacred one. Building upon this basic insight, the book affirms many recent but discrete conclusions about the movement’s various contributions (especially to liberalism, environmentalism, and public religion) and shows that we will understand how these commitments hang together only when we “re-transcendentalize the Transcendentalists.” In five useful chapters—on the two-cities tradition within the history of liberalism, on the rival and subsequently dominant “overlap” theories of Lincoln and others, and on the unique contributions to two-cities thought by each of the major authors—Two Cities reintroduces readers to the Transcendentalists as among the most original and important contributors to American political thought.

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : American essays
ISBN : OCLC:1008221216

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Walden by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

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.