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Come può un libro all'apparenza così remoto
nel tempo e nello sguardo sul mondo parlare come pochi altri al nostro
presente? Walden è infatti il resoconto di due anni di vita solitaria
che Henry Thoreau trascorse fra il luglio del 1845 e il settembre del
1847 nella campagna del Massachusetts. E tuttavia è il testo da cui
oltre un secolo dopo prenderanno le mosse i movimenti ecologisti e
ambientalisti di mezzo mondo. Un semplice diario, che all'esperienza
intima unisce la descrizione della vita quotidiana, materiale, fatta di
suoni, silenzi, paesaggi reali e immaginari, è per contrasto una
riflessione sull'economia, sulla politica, sulla democrazia, sugli Stati
Uniti, che in quegli anni si vanno formando come potenza. Tra le righe
in cui la penna di un maestro mette in scena la semplicità della vita
fra i boschi, scopriamo anche perché Thoreau è l'autore cui si
ispireranno Gandhi e le controculture contemporanee. Walden è un'opera
inafferrabile e battagliera che ha saputo diventare la bibbia
dell'anticonformismo, del rifiuto delle leggi ingiuste e di una vita
sobria e immersa nella Natura. Con una introduzione di Wu Ming 2.
Henry David Thoreau (see name pronunciation; July 12,
1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and
philosopher.[3] A leading transcendentalist,[4] he is best known for his
book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings,
and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance
to Download Walden. Vita nel bosco Pdf Gratis ITA Civil Government"),
an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry
amount to more than 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his
writings on natural history and philosophy, in which he anticipated the
methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources
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environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close observation of
nature, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and
historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical
austerity, and attention to practical detail.[5] He was also deeply
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natural decay; at the same time he advocated abandoning
waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs.[5]
Thoreau was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures
that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of
Wendell Phillips and defending the abolitionist John Brown. Thoreau's
philosophy of Download Walden. Vita nel bosco Pdf Gratis ITA civil
disobedience later influenced the political thoughts and actions of such
notable figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King
Jr.[6]
Thoreau is sometimes referred to as an anarchist.[7][8] In
"Civil Disobedience", Thoreau wrote: "I heartily accept the
motto,?—?'That government is best which governs least;' and I should
Download Walden. Vita nel bosco Pdf Gratis ITA like to see it acted up
to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to
this, which also I believe,?—?'That government is best which governs not
at all;' and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of
government which they will have. [...] I Download Walden. Vita nel
bosco Pdf Gratis ITA ask for, not at once no government, but at once a
better government."[9]
Amos Bronson Alcott and Thoreau's aunt each
wrote that
"Thoreau" is pronounced like the word thorough (/???ro?/ THURR-oh—in
General American,[10][11] but more precisely /????ro?/ THOR-oh—in
19th-century New England). Edward Waldo Emerson wrote that the name
should be Download Walden. Vita nel bosco Pdf Gratis ITA pronounced
"Thó-row", with the h sounded and stress on the first syllable.[12]
Among modern-day American English speakers, it is perhaps more commonly
pronounced /???ro?/ th?-ROH—with stress on the second syllable.[13][14]
Thoreau had a distinctive appearance, with a nose that he
called his "most prominent feature".[15] Of his appearance and
disposition, Download Walden. Vita nel bosco Pdf Gratis ITA Ellery
Channing wrote:[16]
His face, once seen, could not be forgotten. The features
were quite marked: the nose aquiline or very Roman, like one of the
portraits of Caesar (more like a beak, as was said); large overhanging
brows above the deepest set blue eyes that could be seen, in Download
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gray,—eyes expressive of all shades of feeling, but never weak or
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concentrated energy and purpose;
the mouth with prominent lips,
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with the Download Walden. Vita nel bosco Pdf Gratis ITA most varied
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Henry David Thoreau was
born David Henry Thoreau[17] in Concord, Massachusetts, into the "modest
New England family"[18] of John Thoreau, a pencil maker, and Cynthia
Dunbar. His paternal grandfather had been born on the UK crown
dependency island of Jersey.[19] His maternal grandfather, Asa Download
Walden. Vita nel bosco Pdf Gratis ITA Dunbar, led Harvard's 1766
student "Butter Rebellion",[20] the first recorded student protest in
the American colonies.[21] David Henry was named after his recently
deceased paternal uncle, David Thoreau. He began to call himself Henry
David after he finished college; he never petitioned to make a legal
name change.[22] He had Download Walden. Vita nel bosco Pdf Gratis ITA
two older siblings, Helen and John Jr., and a younger sister, Sophia
Thoreau.[23] None of the children married. Helen (1812–1849) died at age
36 years, from tuberculosis. John Jr. (1815–1842) died at age 27, of
tetanus. Henry David (1817–1862) died
at age 44, of tuberculosis.
Sophia (1819–1876) survived him by Download Walden. Vita nel bosco Pdf
Gratis ITA 14 years, dying at age 57 years, of tuberculosis.[citation
needed]
Thoreau's birthplace still exists on Virginia Road in
Concord. The house has been restored by the Thoreau Farm Trust,[24] a
nonprofit organization, and is now open to the public. He studied at
Harvard Coll
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