A Political Companion To Henry David Thoreau
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A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau
Author | : Jack Turner |
Publsiher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2009-07-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780813172873 |
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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.
A Political Companion to Herman Melville
Author | : Jason Frank |
Publsiher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2014-01-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780813143880 |
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Herman Melville is widely considered to be one of America's greatest authors, and countless literary theorists and critics have studied his life and work. However, political theorists have tended to avoid Melville, turning rather to such contemporaries as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau to understand the political thought of the American Renaissance. While Melville was not an activist in the traditional sense and his philosophy is notoriously difficult to categorize, his work is nevertheless deeply political in its own right. As editor Jason Frank notes in his introduction to A Political Companion to Herman Melville, Melville's writing "strikes a note of dissonance in the pre-established harmonies of the American political tradition." This unique volume explores Melville's politics by surveying the full range of his work -- from Typee (1846) to the posthumously published Billy Budd (1924). The contributors give historical context to Melville's writings and place him in conversation with political and theoretical debates, examining his relationship to transcendentalism and contemporary continental philosophy and addressing his work's relevance to topics such as nineteenth-century imperialism, twentieth-century legal theory, the anti-rent wars of the 1840s, and the civil rights movement. From these analyses emerges a new and challenging portrait of Melville as a political thinker of the first order, one that will establish his importance not only for nineteenth-century American political thought but also for political theory more broadly.
Thoreau Political Writings
Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1996-05-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521476755 |
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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.
A Political Companion to Herman Melville
Author | : Jason Frank |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1306118166 |
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Herman Melville is widely considered to be one of America's greatest authors, and countless literary theorists and critics have studied his life and work. However, political theorists have tended to avoid Melville, turning rather to such contemporaries as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau to understand the political thought of the American Renaissance. While Melville was not an activist in the traditional sense and his philosophy is notoriously difficult to categorize, his work is nevertheless deeply political in its own right. As editor Jason Frank notes in his introduction to "A Political Companion to Herman Melville," Melville's writing "strikes a note of dissonance in the pre-established harmonies of the American political tradition." This unique volume explores Melville's politics by surveying the full range of his work -- from "Typee" (1846) to the posthumously published "Billy Budd" (1924). The contributors give historical context to Melville's writings and place him in conversation with political and theoretical debates, examining his relationship to transcendentalism and contemporary continental philosophy and addressing his work's relevance to topics such as nineteenth-century imperialism, twentieth-century legal theory, the anti-rent wars of the 1840s, and the civil rights movement. From these analyses emerges a new and challenging portrait of Melville as a political thinker of the first order, one that will establish his importance not only for nineteenth-century American political thought but also for political theory more broadly.
The Cambridge Companion to Civil Disobedience
Author | : William E. Scheuerman |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 2021-07-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781108478045 |
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Outlines the theory and practice of civil disobedience, helping to understand how it is operating in the current turbulent conditions.
Henry David Thoreau in Context
Author | : James S. Finley |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 655 |
Release | : 2017-04-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781108500975 |
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Well known for his contrarianism and solitude, Henry David Thoreau was nonetheless deeply responsive to the world around him. His writings bear the traces of his wide-ranging reading, travels, political interests, and social influences. Henry David Thoreau in Context brings together leading scholars of Thoreau and nineteenth-century American literature and culture and presents original research, valuable synthesis of historical and scholarly sources, and innovative readings of Thoreau's texts. Across thirty-four chapters, this collection reveals a Thoreau deeply concerned with and shaped by a diverse range of environments, intellectual traditions, social issues, and modes of scientific practice. Essays also illuminate important posthumous contexts and consider the specific challenges of contextualizing Thoreau today. This collection provides a rich understanding of Thoreau and nineteenth-century American literature, political activism, and environmentalist thinking that will be a vital resource for students, teachers, scholars, and general readers.
The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy
Author | : Gerald F. Gaus,Fred D'Agostino |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 869 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780415874564 |
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This comprehensive work provides an up-to-date survey of social and political philosophy, charting its history and key figures and movements, and addressing enduring questions as well as contemporary research.
The Political Thought of Henry David Thoreau
Author | : Jonathan McKenzie |
Publsiher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2016-01-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780813166322 |
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"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.