Walden ovvero Vita nei boschi: Ediz. integrale (Classici del pensiero)

by Henry David Thoreau, Tosi Nicola (Editor)

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Published December 6, 2021

About the author

Henry 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.

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Reviews

[Giulia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mi ispirava, ne avevo sentito parlare bene. Per quanto se ne esca con qualche chicca ogni tanto, non vale la pena leggersi tutto il libro. E no, non l'ho letto tutto, ma esattamente un terzo, ma non ce la faccio a continuare perché è davvero troppo noioso. Forse dovevo aspettarmelo da un libro che è il resoconto dei due anni di vita di un tizio che vive in un bosco senza fare nulla dalla mattina alla sera. E nel farlo se la tira anche, si sente palesemente superiore perché lui ha scoperto come vivere bene e noi invece stiamo qui a stressarci. Ma, detto da un mantenuto che si costruisce casa su un pezzo di terra che il suo migliore amico gli regala (palesemente perché gli fa pena), fa un po' ridere. Qualcosa di carino lo dice, filosoficamente prende davvero spunto un po' da tutto, soprattutto filosofia orientale (non perché io la conosca, ma perché lui la nomina). Ma a parte questo, che non è neanche frutto del suo sacco alla fine, non ne vale davvero la pena, per quel che ho letto.

[theanswerlugo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Da leggere, senza dubbio. Attuale e di ispirazione anche nella nostra epoca.