Etiqueta: Henry David Thoreau
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Resistance to Civil Government
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Resistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them…
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Walden
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Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and (to some degree) manual for self-reliance. First published in…
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El Manantial
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en EnsayoLa obra de Henry David Thoreau suele dividirse en dos grandes categorías implícitas en Walden: la de los escritos de la naturaleza o «lo salvaje», que representan el documento de partida de la moderna ecología, y la de los textos políticos que, alrededor del ensayo La desobediencia civil, han recibido desde el principio el nombre…