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Indlæser... Walden, Civil Disobedience and Other Writings (Norton Critical Editions)af Henry David Thoreau
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Clearly this is a classic, so many people find value in it. I was supposed to read 'Walden' for my course, but ended up skimming it. It seems to me to be self-indulgent condescending nonsense. One extra star for the phrase '[t]he mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation'. ( ) Walden review This is not the book that I expected. It isn't exactly life affirming, or even about tranquility as I expected it to be. It is, however, a book about startling us out of our complacency and focus on trivial matters. It is about ceasing to be so attentive to the external and begin cultivating out interior. Walden is more important now than ever before. We live in an age where the external aspects of living are very well done and held in high esteem, but interior aspect of life are not. We love iPods, but not wisdom. The first two chapters and the conclusion are passionate and full of ideas, but what happens in the middle is too often overlooked. It is slow yet beautiful description seemingly without much significance, but to skip this part would be to miss the point. By channeling or focus on slowing down and noticing the everyday, Thoreau takes us to Walden with him to contemplate life. One does not need to live in a cabin in the woods to experience what Thoreau went through, one only needs to read his book. I’ve heard from great admirers of the book that it is difficult and at times boring, but that shouldn’t cause anyone to skip those parts, as they are part if the journey. I honestly didn’t find a single aspect of it boring, but I can see why one might – even lovers of it. My professor confessed that he found some parts almost unbearable, but necessary. This is a book of wisdom. It is philosophy more than anything else. Not so much a “how-to” guide for living, but a finger pointing to the direction of wisdom. We must not focus our lives so much on making money and being comfortable, but we must explore our lives and selves more. We have become very good at the externals of life, but do we know why we live? This book is a finger in the right direction. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
As a unique feature, the Third Edition includes generous excerpts from Thoreau's journal, reprinted by special arrangements with Princeton University Press from the definitive edition of his writings. Spanning the years 1845-54, these selections vividly display Thoreau's intensive exploration of his local landscape; the fusion of literary and natural history field work that informs Walden, "Walking," and "Wild Apples"; and the growth of his environmental imagination."Reviews and Posthumous Assessments" for this edition collects eight new reviews of Thoreau's antislavery and late environmental essays as well as of Walden. To the influential portraits of Thoreau by Ralph Waldo Emerson and James Russell Lowell, the Third Edition adds John Burroughs's "Another Word on Thoreau," his response to them and to his great predecessor."Recent Criticism" includes eighteen selections of the best historical, political, philosophical, poststructuralist, and environmental criticism of Thoreau's writing since the mid-twentieth century. To classic pieces by E. B. White, Leo Marx, Barbara Johnson, and Stanley Cavell, the Third Edition adds essays by nine new contributors, among them Laurence Buell, Laura Dassow Walls, Evan Carton, Robert A. Gross, Albert J. von Frank, Steven Fink, and William Rossi.A Chronology of Thoreau's life and work, new to the Third Edition, and an expanded and updated Selected Bibliography are also included. No library descriptions found. |
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