
Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau
Title:
Civil Disobedience
Author:
Henry David Thoreau
Edited by:
Pepperman Taylor, Bob
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
160 pages
Publisher:
Broadview Press Ltd
ISBN-13:
9781554813018
EAN:
9781554813018
Publication Date:
03/11/2016
Classifications:
Biography and non-fiction prose
Weight (g):
348
Dimensions (mm):
142 x 215 x 2
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
In 1848, Henry David Thoreau twice delivered lectures in Concord, Massachusetts, on “the relationship of the individual to the state.” The essay now known as Civil Disobedience is a significant and widely admired contribution to abolitionist literature, as well as an anti-war tract, but Thoreau’s focus is less on political organization and solidarity than it is on personal choice and individual responsibility. Cultivating personal integrity in the face of political injustice is the project Thoreau defends in Civil Disobedience; this focus has made the work highly influential for twentieth- and twenty-first-century political movements.Bob Pepperman Taylor’s new Introduction explains the work’s specific political context, helping readers to understand the text as Thoreau wrote it. The edition also offers a number of historical documents on Thoreau’s abolitionism; the war with Mexico; and Thoreau’s philosophical development in relation to other thinkers.




















