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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 January 2025. 1849 essay by Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience First page of "Resistance to Civil Government" as published in Aesthetic Papers, in 1849. Author Henry David Thoreau Language English Publication place United States Media type Print Text Civil Disobedience at Wikisource This article ...
Thoreau's philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced the political thoughts and actions of notable figures such as Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr. [5] Thoreau is sometimes referred to retrospectively as an anarchist, [6] [7] but may perhaps be more properly regarded as a proto-anarchist. In his seminal essay ...
Thoreau's 1849 essay Civil Disobedience, originally titled "Resistance to Civil Government", has had a wide influence on many later practitioners of civil disobedience. The driving idea behind the essay is that citizens are morally responsible for their support of aggressors, even when such support is required by law.
The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau is a project that aims to provide, for the first time, accurate texts of the complete works of American author Henry David Thoreau, including his journal, personal letters, and writings for publication.
The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Reform Papers, Princeton University Press, 1973 (ISBN 0-691-06241-2) The Higher Law: Thoreau on Civil Disobedience and Reform, Princeton University Press, 2004 (ISBN 978-0691118765) My Thoughts are Murder to the State, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2007 (ISBN 978-1434804266
Henry David Thoreau's 1849 essay On Resistance to Civil Government—now usually referred to as Civil Disobedience—is part of the canon of American political philosophy. [6] It was prompted by Thoreau's refusal to pay a poll tax because of unwillingness to support a government that was enforcing the slavery of Americans and what he felt was ...
Sir Walter Raleigh is an essay by Henry David Thoreau that has been reconstructed from notes he wrote for an 1843 lecture and drafts of an article he was preparing for The Dial. It was first published in 1950, in a collection of Thoreau's writings edited by Henry Aiken Metcalf.
My Thoughts are Murder to the State by Henry David Thoreau (ISBN 978-1434804266) The Higher Law: Thoreau on Civil Disobedience and Reform (ISBN 978-0691118765) Collected Essays and Poems by Henry David Thoreau (ISBN 978-1-88301195-6