by Henry David Thoreau · Dover Publications · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780486275635
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«Civil Disobedience and Other Essays» is Henry David Thoreau's collection of essays, published by Dover Publications in paperback (96 pages, English).
It brings together five essays by Thoreau on the individual against power. In «Civil Disobedience» he defends personal conscience against unjust law; «Life Without Principle» criticises materialism; «Slavery in Massachusetts» denounces political complicity with slavery, and «Walking» celebrates wild nature.
Volume in the Dover Thrift Editions series, published in 1993 by Dover Publications; 96 pages and text in English.
For those interested in political philosophy, the classic essay and the human relationship with nature.
Henry David Thoreau was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience", an argument in favor of citizen disobedience against an unjust state.
