The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail - Brossura

Lawrence, Jerome

Brossura

ISBN 10: 055327838X ISBN 13: 9780553278385

Casa editrice: Bantam Classic & Loveswept, 1992

Riassunto

Dramatizes the reasons behind the civil disobedience that resulted in Thoreau's arrest, and the ways in which his night in jail affected his philosophy

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"The play must rank among the most brilliant  intellectual stimulants of a decade, perhaps even of the  century."--Columbus Dispatch.

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law is of such nature that it  requires you to be an agent of injustice to another,  then I say, break the law." In 1849, the young  Henry David Thoreau, philosopher, poet,  naturalist, penned these timeless words in his  Civil Disobedience. Three years earlier  Thoreau had refused to pay taxes to the government,  which was engaged in the Mexican War. He condemned  the war as unjust--a war never formally declared,  begun without Congressional authorization, a  savage and bloody war fought to assuage the United  States' territorial ambitions. For his courageous and  unprecedented act of protest, he was thrown in  jail. Thoreau was a man of the future. Over the  past century, his action has had worldwide  repercussions. Tolstoy was influenced by his stand, and  Gandhi based his passive resistance campaign on the  word

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• Editore: Bantam Classic & Loveswept
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 055327838X
• ISBN 13: 9780553278385
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile