Walden, and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau - Bücher - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781533147134 - 8. Mai 2016
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Walden, and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

Walden, and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Walden by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and (to some degree) manual for self-reliance. Thoreau also used this time to write his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. 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

Medien Bücher     Taschenbuch   (Buch mit Softcover und geklebtem Rücken)
Erscheinungsdatum 8. Mai 2016
ISBN13 9781533147134
Verlag Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Seitenanzahl 342
Maße 152 × 229 × 18 mm   ·   458 g
Sprache Englisch  

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