Henry David Thoreau

Or, Life in the Woods. On the Duty of Civil Disobedience. Introd. by Norman Holmes Pearson

Walden

A Book that Transformed America “Friendship is first, Friendship last. But it is equally impossible to forget our Friends, and to make them answer to our ideal.”- Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience was Thoreau's first published book and continues to transform American discourse. It is unusual for its symbolism and structure, its criticism of Christian institutions, and its many-layered storytelling. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes.

Civil Disobedience

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays is a collection of some of Henry David Thoreau's most important essays. Contained in this volume are the following essays: Civil Disobedience, Natural History of Massachusetts, A Walk to Wachusett, The Landlord, A Winter Walk, The Succession of Forest Trees, Walking, Autumnal Tints, Wild Apples, Night and Moonlight, Aulus Persius Flaccus, Herald of Freedom, Life Without Principle, Paradise (to be) Regained, A Plea for John Brown, The Last Days of John Brown, After the Death of John Brown, The Service, Slavery in Massachusetts, and Wendell Phillips Before Concord Lyceum.

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays (the Collected Essays of Henry David Thoreau)

The philosophies of HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862)-hero to environmentalists and ecologists, profound thinker on humanity's happiness-have greatly influenced the American character, and his writings on human nature, materialism, and the natural world continue to be of profound import today. In this essay, first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and vital to any appreciation of the great man's work, Thoreau explores: . the joys and necessities of long afternoon walks . how spending time in untrammeled fields and woods soothes the spirit . how Nature guides us on our walks . the lure of the wild for writers and artists . why "all good things are wild and free" . and more. ALSO FROM COSIMO: Thoreau's Walden and Civil Disobedience

Walking

19. yüzyıl Amerika’sının önemli entelektüellerinden, ilk çevreci aktivist diyebileceğimiz Thoreau’nun Excursions (Gezintiler) adlı yapıtından seçilen birbirini tamamlayan üç denemesi “Yürümek”, “Bir Kış Yürüyüşü”, “Gece ve Ay Işığı” ayrıntı ustası bir münzeviden yürümenin felsefesi üzerine bir ders. Yürüyüşü fiziksel bir eylemden çok soylu bir sanat, kişinin içsel dünyasında gerçekleştirdiği yabanıl bir gezinti olarak nitelendiren yazar, bir yandan da kapitalizmin “medenileştirdiği” insanların doğayla ilişkilerine keskin eleştiriler yöneltiyor. Doğanın donanımlı, tarafsız bir öğretmene dönüştüğü bu metinlerde okuru dingin bir kış sabahına uyandırıp bir kutup gününde ormanın içinden, donmuş nehirlere, kuytu vadilere, buz tutmuş çayırlara, düşman filolarıyla çarpışan aya, kısacası kendi deyimiyle “ilkel bir çağın saflığı”na doğru bir gezintiye çıkarıyor.

Yürümek

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Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

Damion Searls

The largest one-volume edition of the American thinker's journals ever published captures the scope, rhythms, and variety of the work as a whole, exploring the source from which Thoreau drew his timeless books and essays. Original.

The Journal, 1837-1861

Henry David Thoreau’s Journal was his life’s work: the daily practice of writing that accompanied his daily walks, the workshop where he developed his books and essays, and a project in its own right—one of the most intensive explorations ever made of the everyday environment, the revolving seasons, and the changing self. It is a treasure trove of some of the finest prose in English and, for those acquainted with it, its prismatic pages exercise a hypnotic fascination. Yet at roughly seven thousand pages, or two million words, it remains Thoreau’s least-known work. This reader’s edition, the largest one-volume edition of Thoreau’s Journal ever published, is the first to capture the scope, rhythms, and variety of the work as a whole. Ranging freely over the world at large, the Journal is no less devoted to the life within. As Thoreau says, “It is in vain to write on the seasons unless you have the seasons in you.”

The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861

Life Without Principle

Sivil Itaatsizlik

«Le leggi ingiuste esistono: dobbiamo accontentarci di obbedire o dobbiamo sforzarci di correggerle?» La disobbedienza civile, il più noto tra gli scritti di Henry Thoreau, sancì l’affermazione della lotta non violenta come forma di opposizione al potere. Pubblicato nel 1849, suscitò l’entusiasmo di Tolstoj e raccolse poi il plauso e l’adesione di alcuni dei maggiori pensatori del Novecento, da Gandhi a Martin Luther King. Ma la sua ragione fondamentale, ovvero la critica costruttiva del libero cittadino nei confronti dello stato, è ancora al centro del dibattito delle idee e fa di questo pamphlet un grande classico del pensiero politico.

La disobbedienza civile

Walden - Ormanda Yasam

Resistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican-American War (1846-1848).

Resistance to Civil Government

Dona Budd

Charles Gurche

Henry David Thoreau (American, 1817 -- 1862) extracted himself from the routines of employment and civilized sociability to spend two years in the woods. Walden, Thoreau's book about his experience published in 1854, has become one of the most highly respected works in American literature. In Thoughts from Walden Pond, Charles Gurche's brilliant photographs from the diverse regions of America are paired with excerpts from Thoreau's masterpiece. The pictures with the text transport us to a state of heightened awareness and impart an almost cellular sense of the importance of wild places. Dona Budd's introductory essay offers an engrossing biography of Thoreau along with her insightful reflections on Walden.

Thoughts from Walden Pond by Henry David Thoreau

'A Desobediência Civil' expõe-se ao risco de ser geralmente citado fora de contexto e utilizado para dar cobertura às mais variadas causas - a da paz como a da guerra. O ponto mais alto deste discurso é a descrição que Thoreau faz da sua própria passagem pela prisão, depois de se ter recusado a pagar impostos. Mas Thoreau sente que a desobediência ao poder, o desafio à lei, terão como resultado final a solidão. É por isso que afirma ser a prisão o único lugar onde um homem livre e justo pode morar com honra. 'A Desobediência Civil' seguido de 'Defesa de John Brown' e outros textos complementares.

A desobediência civil: defesa de John Brown

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Together in one volume, Emerson's Nature and Thoreau's Walking, is writing that defines our distinctly American relationship to nature.

Nature and Walking

Henry D. Thoreau traveled to the backwoods of Maine in 1846, 1853, and 1857. Originally published in 1864, and published now with a new introduction by Paul Theroux, this volume is a powerful telling of those journeys through a rugged and largely unspoiled land. It presents Thoreau's fullest account of the wilderness. The Maine Woods is classic Thoreau: a personal story of exterior and interior discoveries in a natural setting--all conveyed in taut, masterly prose. Thoreau's evocative renderings of the life of the primitive forest--its mountains, waterways, fauna, flora, and inhabitants--are timeless and valuable on their own. But his impassioned protest against the despoilment of nature in the name of commerce and sport, which even by the 1850s threatened to deprive Americans of the "tonic of wildness," makes The Maine Woods an especially vital book for our own time.

The Maine Woods

Yalnızlık

Sivil Itaatsizlik Makalesi ve Walden Gölü

Dogal Yasam ve Baskaldiri

Astrid Cabral

Júlio Henriques

Este livro de autodescoberta narra a experiência de dois anos de isolamento de Thoreau no lago Walden (Massachusetts, EUA). Com referências a temas como mitologia, história, poesia, carpintaria, fauna e flora, o autor apresenta suas ideias sobre a melhor maneira de viver em harmonia com a Natureza circundante e, portanto, exterior, mas especialmente com a nossa própria e intrínseca natureza humana.

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