Simplify, Simplify: And Other Quotations from Henry David Thoreau - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231103891 ISBN 13: 9780231103893

Verlag: Columbia University Press, 2012

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Críticas

As Kevin P. Van Anglen shows, Henry David Thoreau's passionate commitment to truth and to the integrity of the self has made his influence endure; reformers and writers like Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Rachel Carson all were inspired by the example of his person, his beliefs, and his writings. Harvard Review A brilliant new sampling of Thoreau's words... this collection stands as a document unto itself... There is little that is routine or simplistic about this lovingly constructed-not to mention remarkably attractive-text. Van Anglen recognizes the breadth of intellect that underpinned the writings and utterances of Thoreau. The Capital Times

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Sampling from Walden, "Civil Disobedience," The Maine Woods, and Henry David Thoreau's abolitionist and nature writings, letters, and other texts, Kevin P. Van Anglen distills the intellectual's immense, creative, clever, and surprisingly progressive thought into 750 quotations, offering a concise and straightforward introduction to his profound philosophy. Addressing subjects ranging from English literature, the act of reading, and the art of love to independence, ecology, and democratic government, Thoreau was a true original writing at a time of burgeoning American exceptionalism, and his incomparable insight continues to thrill readers from all generations and backgrounds.

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• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0231103891
• ISBN 13: 9780231103893
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
• Herausgeber: Van Anglen Kevin