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Pisar la tierra con libertad: Textos seleccionados (Inmortales)
Un recorrido por los textos esenciales de Henry D. Thoreau (Desobediencia civil, Caminar y fragmentos de Walden), acompañados por una introducción de un filósofo español contemporáneo que dialoga con su pensamiento desde el presente y lo reivindica como una brújula ética para quienes no se resignan al conformismo.
Vivir de forma sencilla también puede ser un acto de resistencia.
¿Qué significa llevar una vida libre en un mundo que empuja al conformismo? ¿Qué implica desobedecer cuando la obediencia perpetúa la injusticia? ¿Y qué sentido tiene caminar sin rumbo fijo, salvo el de alejarse del ruido y pensar con claridad?
Pisar la tierra con libertad reúne tres de los textos más lúcidos y radicales de Henry D. Thoreau —Desobediencia civil, Caminar y fragmentos de Walden— en los que se entrelazan la crítica al poder, la búsqueda de una existencia más esencial y la defensa de la naturaleza como espacio moral. A través de ellos, Thoreau invita a vivir con conciencia, a oponerse a lo que degrada la dignidad humana y a abrir caminos propios lejos de las sendas marcadas.
Esta edición cuenta con una introducción de un filósofo contemporáneo, que lee a Thoreau desde nuestro presente y lo presenta como un autor imprescindible para quienes buscan una vida más auténtica, libre y resistente.
Vivir de forma sencilla también puede ser un acto de resistencia.
¿Qué significa llevar una vida libre en un mundo que empuja al conformismo? ¿Qué implica desobedecer cuando la obediencia perpetúa la injusticia? ¿Y qué sentido tiene caminar sin rumbo fijo, salvo el de alejarse del ruido y pensar con claridad?
Pisar la tierra con libertad reúne tres de los textos más lúcidos y radicales de Henry D. Thoreau —Desobediencia civil, Caminar y fragmentos de Walden— en los que se entrelazan la crítica al poder, la búsqueda de una existencia más esencial y la defensa de la naturaleza como espacio moral. A través de ellos, Thoreau invita a vivir con conciencia, a oponerse a lo que degrada la dignidad humana y a abrir caminos propios lejos de las sendas marcadas.
Esta edición cuenta con una introducción de un filósofo contemporáneo, que lee a Thoreau desde nuestro presente y lo presenta como un autor imprescindible para quienes buscan una vida más auténtica, libre y resistente.
132 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 14, 2026
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Henry David Thoreau
2,590 books6,911 followersHenry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, philosopher, and abolitionist who is best known for 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.
Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism.
In 1817, Henry David Thoreau was born in Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1837, taught briefly, then turned to writing and lecturing. Becoming a Transcendentalist and good friend of Emerson, Thoreau lived the life of simplicity he advocated in his writings. His two-year experience in a hut in Walden, on land owned by Emerson, resulted in the classic, Walden: Life in the Woods (1854). During his sojourn there, Thoreau refused to pay a poll tax in protest of slavery and the Mexican war, for which he was jailed overnight. His activist convictions were expressed in the groundbreaking On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1849). In a diary he noted his disapproval of attempts to convert the Algonquins "from their own superstitions to new ones." In a journal he noted dryly that it is appropriate for a church to be the ugliest building in a village, "because it is the one in which human nature stoops to the lowest and is the most disgraced." (Cited by James A. Haught in 2000 Years of Disbelief.) When Parker Pillsbury sought to talk about religion with Thoreau as he was dying from tuberculosis, Thoreau replied: "One world at a time."
Thoreau's philosophy of nonviolent resistance influenced the political thoughts and actions of such later figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas K. Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. D. 1862.
More: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/tho...
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Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism.
In 1817, Henry David Thoreau was born in Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1837, taught briefly, then turned to writing and lecturing. Becoming a Transcendentalist and good friend of Emerson, Thoreau lived the life of simplicity he advocated in his writings. His two-year experience in a hut in Walden, on land owned by Emerson, resulted in the classic, Walden: Life in the Woods (1854). During his sojourn there, Thoreau refused to pay a poll tax in protest of slavery and the Mexican war, for which he was jailed overnight. His activist convictions were expressed in the groundbreaking On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1849). In a diary he noted his disapproval of attempts to convert the Algonquins "from their own superstitions to new ones." In a journal he noted dryly that it is appropriate for a church to be the ugliest building in a village, "because it is the one in which human nature stoops to the lowest and is the most disgraced." (Cited by James A. Haught in 2000 Years of Disbelief.) When Parker Pillsbury sought to talk about religion with Thoreau as he was dying from tuberculosis, Thoreau replied: "One world at a time."
Thoreau's philosophy of nonviolent resistance influenced the political thoughts and actions of such later figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas K. Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. D. 1862.
More: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/tho...
http://thoreau.eserver.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Da...
http://transcendentalism-legacy.tamu....
http://www.biography.com/people/henry...
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April 28, 2026
Que maravilla de libro y que forma tan hermosa de ver el mundo.Grande entre los grandes pensadores.
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