Civil Disobedience Contributor(s): Thoreau, Henry David (Author), Pepperman Taylor, Bob (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1554813018 ISBN-13: 9781554813018 Publisher: Broadview Press Inc OUR PRICE: $15.68 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Essays - Political Science | Civil Rights |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.50 lbs) 160 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher 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 The edition also offers a number of historical documents on Thoreau's abolitionism; the war with Mexico; and Thoreau's philosophical development in relation to other thinkers. |