Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau

Civil Disobedience

; Robert Pepperman Taylor (Redaktør)

In 1848 and again in 1849, Henry David Thoreau delivered a lecture 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. Les mer
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In 1848 and again in 1849, Henry David Thoreau delivered a lecture 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 to 20th- and 21st-century political movements.

Robert 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 The edition also offers a number of historical documents on Thoreau's abolitionism; the United States' war with Mexico; and Thoreau's philosophical development in relation to other thinkers.
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Forlag: Broadview Press Ltd
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Språk: Engelsk
Sider: 232
ISBN: 9781554813018
Format: 22 x 14 cm
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Introduction

Civil Disobedience

Appendix A: Thoreau's Abolitionism Developed



From Henry David Thoreau, A Plea for Captain John Brown (1860)

Appendix B: Abolitionism



Henry Highland Garnet, Address to the Slaves of the United States (1865)

Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, Tea-Table Talk (1836)

William Lloyd Garrison, Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Society (1852)

From William Lloyd Garrison, Declaration of Sentiments Adopted by the Peace Convention, The Liberator (28 Sept. 1838)

William Lloyd Garrison, The American Union (1845)

Appendix C: Sectionalism and the Constitution



Samuel Hoar, Report on His Mission to Charleston, South Carolina (1845)

From Daniel Webster, Speech in Senate, 12 August 1848

From Daniel Webster, Speech at Capon Springs, Virginia, 28 June 1851

Appendix D: War with Mexico



From Abraham Lincoln, Speech in U.S. House of Representatives on War with Mexico (1848)

Appendix E: Moral and Philosophical Context



From William Paley, The Duty of Submission to Civil Government Explained (1822)

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Politics (1844)

Robert Pepperman Taylor is Professor of Political Science at the University of Vermont.