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Walden
av Henry David Thoreau
Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau"s life for two years, two months, and two days around the shores of Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. The book compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development.

Walden is neither a novel nor a true autobiography, but a social critique of the Western World, with each chapter heralding some aspect of humanity that needed to be either renounced or praised. Along with his critique of the civilized world,

Thoreau examines other issues afflicting man in society, ranging from economy and reading to solitude and higher laws. He also takes time to talk about the experience at Walden Pond itself, commenting on the animals and the way people treated him for living there, using those experiences to bring out his philosophical positions.

This extended commentary on nature has often been interpreted as a strong statement to the natural religion that transcendentalists like Thoreau and Emerson were preaching.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, 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.

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Walden
av Henry David Thoreau
I modern och oavkortad översättning av Peter Handberg.

År 1845 byggde sig Thoreau en stuga vid tjärnen Walden nära Concord i Massachusetts. Han levde där nära naturen i över två år och hade under tiden få kontakter med civilisationen. Skildringen av det enkla och oberoende livet i skogarna är ett gott exempel på hans kritik mot det framväxande moderna samhällets avigsidor. Thoreaus egensinniga tänkande har påverkat miljoner människor världen över.

Med efterord av Thoreau-experterna Steven Hartman och Henrik Otterberg.

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100 citations de Henry David Thoreau
av Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau : auteur incontournable pour qui se pose la question de la vie juste. Poete et philosophe americain, partisan de l'abolition de l'esclavage, defenseur de la desobeissance civile face a un gouvernement corrompu, Thoreau est aussi precurseur du mouvement de la simplicite volontaire. "Walden ou la vie dans les bois" fut ecrit dans une cabane qu'il avait lui-meme construite au fond de la foret, et ou il redecouvrit la vie en communion avec la nature. On y trouve des reflexions fondamentales sur la vie en conscience, la necessite de reconnaitre et d'abandonner l'illusoire pour mieux vivre l'essentiel, et ce qui fait la vie juste pour qui est capable de s'y consacrer pleinement. Les idees politiques de Thoreau inspirerent des figures majeures de l'Histoire, de Martin Luther King a Gandhi, en passant par Leon Tolstoi. Ces 100 citations vous familiariseront avec sa pensee, pour vous permettre d'approcher l'essence de sa philosophie, de mieux comprendre le devoir moral d'un citoyen, et de mieux apprecier une vie debarrassee de ses illusions parasites.

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600 Quotes from Political Philosophy
av Henry David Thoreau, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Confucius, Cicero
Friedrich Nietzsche, Henry David Thoreau, and Karl Marx are among the famous names whose wit and wisdom are included in this wonderful collection, '600 Quotes from Political Philosophy'.

A mixture of ancient and modern philosophers from China, Rome, Germany, and France, these world-renowned giants of philosophy remain just as influential and important as ever.

This carefully crafted collection is guaranteed to inspire, amuse, and entertain, and it is ideal for those needing some philosophical guidance.

From impacting world politics and intellectual thought to influencing modern philosophy, these philosophers are among the most quoted people in the world.

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100 Quotes by Henry David Thoreau: Great Philosophers & Their Inspiring Thoughts

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100 Quotes by Henry David Thoreau: Great Philosophers & Their Inspiring Thoughts
av Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau is a beloved American author, poet and philosopher. He was a lifelong abolitionist, advocate of civil disobedience againts unjust or corrupted goverments, and he defended the idea of abandoning illusory matters in favor of simple living, in order to discover life's authentic essential needs. He is best known for Walden, or Life in the woods, the book he wrote during his two-year experiment in minimalist living: having built himself a cabin in the woods, he stayed there to study, write, and enjoy his newfound communion with nature. His political works and theory of civil disobedience have influenced the thoughts and actions of many prominent figures, such as Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. We have selected for you 100 of Thoreau's most insightful quotes, for you to approach the essence of his philosophy, gain better understanding of a citizen's moral duty, and appreciate fully a life cleared of illusions.

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3500 Final Quotes
av Henry David Thoreau, Oscar Wilde, Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, Anne Frank
Ready yourself for this carefully crafted collection of quotes from some of the greatest minds the world has ever seen!

Featuring world-famous playwrights, philosophers, activists, Presidents and physicists, from Churchill and Shakespeare to Gandhi and Einstein, this is an entertaining and inspiring compilation covering everything from Ancient Rome to modern-day Britain.

'3500 Final Quotes" is ideal for those wanting a bit of extra philosophical guidance and inspiration throughout their day.

Denis Diderot, Søren Kierkegaard, Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, Marcel Proust, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Plato, Lao Zi, Immanuel Kant, Mahatma Gandhi, Buddha, Albert Einstein, Anne Frank, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Leonardo da Vinci, Confucius, Baruch Spinoza, Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Marcus Aurelius, Socrates, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Cicero, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Napoleon Bonaparte, Fyodor Dostoevski, Oscar Wilde, Voltaire, Ontesquieu, Nicolas de Chamfort, Beaumarchais.

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300 Quotes from American Writers
av Mark Twain, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson
'300 Quotes from American Writers" is a carefully crafted collection of quotes from three of America"s greatest-ever writers, Mark Twain, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Between them, they are responsible for some of the world"s most famous literary works, ranging from Emerson"s essay 'The Poet" and Mark Twain"s 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" to Henry Thoreau"s 'Walden".

This carefully crafted collection is guaranteed to inspire, amuse, and entertain, and it is ideal for those needing some extra encouragement throughout their day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 -1882) was an American philosopher, abolitionist, essayist and poet who was a leading figure in the mid-19th century transcendentalist movement. his most famous works include the essays 'Self-Reliance", 'The Poet", 'Nature" and 'Experience".

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) was an American writer, humourist and publisher. He"s best remembered for his famous novels, 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876) and its sequel, 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884), often called the 'Greatest American Novel".

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American naturalist, poet, and philosopher. He is best known for his masterpiece 'Walden", and the influential essay 'Civil Disobedience".

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Forcing Justice: Violence and Nonviolence in Selected Texts by Thoreau and Gandhi

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Forcing Justice: Violence and Nonviolence in Selected Texts by Thoreau and Gandhi
av Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi
Can justice be forced on individuals and communities?

The essays in this collection by Henry David Thoreau urge us to consider the difficult matter of how to counter the specific injustice manifested in the practice of buying and selling human beings and how to implement laws and practices that help establish justice.

Of the many philosophical ideas Thoreau explores, the central concern is how to end slavery and provide justice for all. It is no surprise to find Thoreau defending the idea of civil disobedience, but his defense of John Brown, who used violence, including murder, commands our attention.

The Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s in the U.S. was heavily influenced by the rhetoric, the actions, and the overall philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr., who famously combined civil disobedience and nonviolent action under the strong influence of Mohandas K. Gandhi. Although Gandhi staunchly defends and promotes the use of nonviolence, he is quick to condemn inaction as an even greater evil than violence. If forced to choose between doing nothing and using violence, he would choose violence; but his many writings and speeches are designed to show that we almost always have a nonviolent alternative to oppose injustice and foster justice.

The lives of more than a billion residents of India have been profoundly shaped by the ideas Gandhi presents and defends in these selections from MY NONVIOLENCE. The liberation of India from British colonialism and the establishing of what Gandhi called 'home rule' is powerful evidence of the role nonviolence can play in bringing about justice and eliminating injustice. Gandhi addresses not only matters of race and skin color but also the caste system and the social stratification that currently pervade the entire globe.

These works by Thoreau and Gandhi consider the best way to promote justice and goodness not in utopia but in the actual world where we live.

The primary goal of Agora Publications is not to answer such controversial questions by taking sides but to provide access to philosophical works that promote such dialogue.

Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862) was an American philosopher who wrote about nature, social and political issues, and human existence in general. He worked closely with other transcendentalist thinkers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller. Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings; his essay 'Civil Disobedience' offers arguments for disobedience to an unjust state.

Mohandas K. Gandhi (October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948) was an Indian philosopher who was formally educated as a lawyer. He initially taught and practiced nonviolent resistance in South Africa and then led the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule. His actions and his writings inspired movements for civil rights and freedom throughout the globe.

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500 Quotations from the Great Philosophers of the 19th Century

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500 Quotations from the Great Philosophers of the 19th Century
av Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Søren Kierkegaard, Arthur Schopenhauer
While we tend to think of the great thinkers as hailing from Ancient Greece, the 19th century has had more than its fair share of sharp minds.

'500 Quotations from the Great Philosophers of the 19th Century" is a collection of reflections, insights, and observations from some of the best brains of that era.

A superb book for dipping in and out of, this makes a great gift for anyone with an interest in history or philosophy.

Søren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855) was born in Copenhagen. He is considered to be one of the founders of existential philosophy and wrote many books on religion, ethics, morality, and philosophy. Born in Poland, Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860) was one of the first philosophers to combine elements of Indian philosophy and Western philosophy in his pursuit of transcendental idealism.

Another transcendentalist, Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) also predicted the importance of environmentalism in the future. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) is regarded as one of the 19th-century German philosophers to have had a lasting effect on contemporary philosophy. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) was an American philosopher and poet who led the American transcendentalist movement during the 1800s.

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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
av Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau's Civil Disobedience - his protest against the government's interference with civil liberty - has inspired many to embrace his philosophy of individualism and love of nature. First published in 1849, this essay argues that individuals have rights and duties in relation to their government. Motivated by his disgust over both slavery and the Mexican-American War, Thoreau argued that individuals must not permit nor enable their government to act against their own consciences. More than a century and a half later, his message is more timely than ever.

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Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

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Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
av Henry David Thoreau
In the early spring of 1845, Henry David Thoreau built and lived in a cabin near the shore of Walden Pond in rural Massachusetts. For the next two years, he enacted his own Transcendentalist experiment, living a simple life based on self-reliance, individualism, and harmony with nature. The journal he kept at that time evolved into his masterwork,Walden, an eloquent expression of a uniquely American philosophy.During the same period, Thoreau endured a one-day imprisonment for his refusal to pay a poll tax, an act of protest against the government for supporting the Mexican War, to which he was morally opposed. In his essay "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience," he defends the principles of such nonviolent protest, setting an example that has influenced such figures as Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., and that endures to this day.Henry David Thoreau is today considered one of the most influential figures in American thought and literature.

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Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

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Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
av Henry David Thoreau
In 1839, two years after graduating from Harvard, Henry David Thoreau and his older brother, John, took a boat-and-hiking trip from Concord, Massachusetts, to the White Mountains of New Hampshire. After John's sudden death in 1842, Thoreau began to prepare a memorial account of their excursion during his stay at Walden Pond. Modern readers have come to see Thoreau's story of the river journey as an appropriate predecessor to Walden, depicting the early years of his spiritual and artistic growth."Just as the current of the stream bears along the boat with Thoreau and his brother, so the current of ideas in his mind bears along the reader by evoking the joy and nostalgia that Thoreau feels for those lost, golden days. As Thoreau says, human life is very much like a river running always downward to the sea, and in this book we enter for a moment the flow of Thoreau's unique existence."-Masterplots

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Walden and Civil Disobedience
av Henry David Thoreau, Robert Bethune
An experiment. A declaration. A spiritual awakening. Noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau spent two years, two months and two days chronicling his near-isolation in a small cabin he built in the woods near Walden Pond, on land owned by his mentor and the father of Transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Immersing himself in nature and solitude, Thoreau sought to develop a greater understanding of society amidst a life of self-reliance and simplicity. Originally published in 1854, Walden remains one of the most celebrated works in American literature. Also includes Walden's essay, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience.

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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
av Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" is a political treatise against slavery, war, and an argument that individuals not cede excessive power to government.A masterpiece of American individualism, the essay is considered by many to be one of the most important pieces of political and philosophical writings ever produced by an American.Thoreau wrote the essay because of his opposition to slavery and the Mexican-American War. When the government engages in actions that are unjust, he believed that citizens should completely withdraw their support of the government and stop paying taxes, even if it results in imprisonment or violence.People who said they have been influenced by Civil Disobedience include Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., President John F. Kennedy, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, suffragist Alice Paul, and authors Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, Ernest Hemingway, Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis, and William Butler Yeats.

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Walden, or Life in the Woods
av Henry David Thoreau
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately." And so it began. Henry David Thoreau, at twenty-seven, built a tiny, one-room cabin in the woods-on land owned by his friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson-and began his two-year experiment in frugality on the shore of Walden Pond. He wasn't seeking isolation so much as simplicity, to "live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms."This book is his account of his time spent there. And yet it is so much more. A keen observer, Thoreau is challenging, opinionated, funny, and sharp. E. B. White said of him, "Henry went forth to battle when he took to the woods, and Walden is the report of a man torn by two powerful and opposing drives-the desire to enjoy the world and the urge to set the world straight."First published in 1854, these essays on politics, philosophy, humanity, and the natural world are at once deeply personal and strikingly universal. He writes with drive, hope, and frustration, with quick humor and exacting honesty. He is an astonishingly good writer. And his words and insights will stay with you long after the last page.

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Cape Cod
av Henry David Thoreau
Compiled from magazine articles published in the 1850s after his death, Cape Cod details several short trips Thoreau made to "the bare and bended arm ofMassachusetts" between 1849 and 1855. "He went to the Cape out of curiosity," explains Paul Theroux, "but in the course of his travel a great thing happened: Thoreau, the woodsman and landlubber, discovered the sea."Encounters with the ocean dominate the book, from the fatal shipwreck of the opening episode to the late reflections on the Pilgrims' Cape Cod landing and reconnaissance. Along the way, Thoreau relates the experiences of fishermen and oystermen, lighthouse keepers and ship captains, and their chronicles of exploration, settlement, and survival on the Cape against the threats of the wild sea and of encroaching modernity.

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Walking, Autumnal Tints & Wild Apples
av Henry David Thoreau
"In wildness is the preservation of the world."Here are three of Thoreau's most famous talks brought together in one volume. "Walking," "Autumnal Tints," and "Wild Apples" are all autumn essays-contemplative, deliberate, and insightful. They are profound reflections on nature, beauty, and our place in the world. In 1862, during Thoreau's last weeks, he received a request from The Atlantic Monthly's new editor, James Fields, to submit some of his work. These three were all published that year, after his death: "Walking" in June, "Autumnal Tints" in October, and "Wild Apples" in November. All three were also included in the collection Excursions, published in 1863.

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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
av Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau's essay, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, is a masterful exploration of the moral imperative to resist unjust laws and unjust governmental systems. By deploying a carefully crafted philosophical argument, Thoreau contends that citizens have an obligation to disobey any law that violates their conscience or enshrines injustice. Read in English, unabridged.

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Walking, Autumnal Tints & Wild Apples
av Henry David Thoreau
"In wildness is the preservation of the world."Here are three of Thoreau's most famous talks brought together in one volume. "Walking," "Autumnal Tints," and "Wild Apples" are all autumn essays-contemplative, deliberate, and insightful. They are profound reflections on nature, beauty, and our place in the world. In 1862, during Thoreau's last weeks, he received a request from The Atlantic Monthly's new editor, James Fields, to submit some of his work. These three were all published that year, after his death: "Walking" in June, "Autumnal Tints" in October, and "Wild Apples" in November. All three were also included in the collection Excursions, published in 1863.

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Wild Apples
av Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau's Wild Apples is a thought-provoking reflection on the effect of modern society on nature. Through his personal experiences, he highlights the tension between man and nature, emphasizing the need for balance between the two. Thoreau's vivid descriptions of wild apples offer a stark contrast to those created by human interference. Read in English, unabridged.

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