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Walden, or, Life in the Woods / On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

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Published 1948 Independently Published 4 views
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0030093201, 9780030093203
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Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state. Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore; while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and "Yankee" love of practical detail. He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time imploring one to abandon waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs.

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«Se è indubbio che Thoreau abbia trascorso gran parte della sua vita nella natura libera, per lo più in solitudine, lontano dal consorzio civile, è altrettanto vero che nella sua personalità così poliedrica e contraddittoria si manifesta anche una tendenza alla critica sociale: tutte le sue opere, sia le principali che le minori, testimoniano questo aspetto e lo confermano come estensione dei princìpi del trascendentalismo emersoniano, portati alle loro estreme conseguenze. Nei due saggi qui presentati, esempi tra i più straordinari della saggistica e dell’oratoria di tutta la tradizione culturale americana, l’esigenza di una critica delle istituzioni assume un vigore decisivo, configurandosi come precisa richiesta di fondamentali riforme nella sfera più strettamente politica. Con un eloquio di rara forza espressiva e trasparente lucidità dichiarativa, la coscienza individuale viene posta al di sopra di ogni tradizione e di ogni istituzione.» (Dallo scritto di Franco Meli)

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