Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience

by Henry David Thoreau, Philip Dossick (Editor)

Overview

Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau has become one of the most widely read and influential works ever written.

Sparked by his outrage at the mass slavery in America that ensued with the industrial era, Civil Disobedience is one of the greatest philosophic texts of all time: a call to every citizen to value his conscience above his government.

Within this 19th century essay, Thoreau's message was that people had a moral duty to avoid blind acquiescence to governmental edicts that in effect made them agents of injustice.

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"I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau. As a result of his writings and personal witness, we are the heirs of a legacy of creative protest."
–Martin Luther King

"Thoreau was a great writer, philosopher, poet, and withal a most practical man, that is, he taught nothing he was not prepared to practice in himself. He went to gaol for the sake of his principles and suffering humanity. His essay has therefore, been sanctified by suffering. Moreover, it is written for all time. Its incisive logic is unanswerable."
–Mahatma Gandhi

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148561804
Publisher:	The St. George Press
Publication date:	08/04/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	125
File size:	861 KB

About the Author

Massachusetts native Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was a leading member of the American Transcendentalist movement, whose faith in nature was tested while Thoreau lived in a homemade hut at Walden Pond between 1845 and 1847. While there, Thoreau worked on the two books published in his lifetime: Walden and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, Excursions, and other works were published posthumously.

Date of Birth:

July 12, 1817

Date of Death:

May 6, 1862

Place of Birth:

Concord, Massachusetts

Place of Death:

Concord, Massachusetts

Education:

Concord Academy, 1828-33); Harvard University, 1837