Walden and Civil Disobedience

Resumen del libro

Henry David Thoreau reflects on life, politics, and society in these two inspiring masterworks: Walden and Civil Disobedience.

In 1845, Thoreau moved to a cabin that he built with his own hands along the shores of Walden Pond in Massachusetts. Shedding the trivial ties that he felt bound much of humanity, Thoreau reaped from the land both physically and mentally, and pursued truth in the quiet of nature. In Walden, he explains how separating oneself from the world of men can truly awaken the sleeping self. Thoreau holds fast to the notion that you have not truly existed until you adopt such a lifestyle and only then can you reenter society, as an enlightened being.

These simple but profound musings as well as Civil Disobedience, his protest against the government's interference with civil liberty have inspired many to embrace his philosophy of individualism and love of nature. More than a century and a half later, his message is more timely than ever.

Biografía del autor

Henry David Thoreau (Massachusetts, 1817-1862). Fue agrimensor, naturalista, conferenciante y fabricante de lápices, además de ensayista y uno de los padres fundadores de la literatura norteamericana. Disidente nato, tan completamente convencido de la bondad de la naturaleza como para proclamar un pensamiento salvaje , se le considera también un pionero de la ecología y de la ética ambientalista. En Errata naturae hemos publicado Cartas a un buscador de sí mismo (2012), Walden (2013), Musketaquid (2014), Un paseo invernal (2014), Desobediencia. Antología de ensayos políticos (2015), Walden. Edición 200 aniversario (2017) y Todo lo bueno es libre y salvaje (2017); además de la biografía canónica escrita por Robert Richardson, Thoreau. Biografía de un pensador salvaje (2017).