On Disobedience and Other Essays
Author | : Erich Fromm |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Alienation (Social psychology) |
ISBN | : 9780710202390 |
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Author | : Erich Fromm |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Alienation (Social psychology) |
ISBN | : 9780710202390 |
Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : The Floating Press |
Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1775412466 |
Thoreau wrote Civil Disobedience in 1849. It argues the superiority of the individual conscience over acquiescence to government. Thoreau was inspired to write in response to slavery and the Mexican-American war. He believed that people could not be made agents of injustice if they were governed by their own consciences.
Author | : Michael Walzer |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674630253 |
In this collection of essays, Michael Walzer discusses how obligations are incurred, sustained, and (sometimes) abandoned by citizens of the modern state and members of political parties and movements as they respond to and participate in the most crucial and controversial aspects of citizenship: resistance, dissent, civil disobedience, war, and revolution. Walzer approaches these issues with insight and historical perspective, exhibiting an extraordinary understanding for rebels, radicals, and rational revolutionaries. The reader will not always agree with Walzer but he cannot help being stimulated, excited, challenged, and moved to thoughtful analysis.
Author | : Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2012-03-12 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0486115577 |
A soul-satisfying collection of 12 essays by the noted philosopher and poet who embraced independence, rejected conformity, and loved nature. Includes the title essay, plus "Character," "Intellect," "Spiritual Laws," "Circles," and others.
Author | : Bob Blaisdell |
Publisher | : Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2016-05-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0486793818 |
Inexpensive but substantial anthology begins with Thoreau's 19th-century essay and concludes in the present day. Contributors include Tolstoy, Bertrand Russell, Martin Luther King, Jr., Dalai Lama, Aung San Suu Kyi, others.
Author | : Oscar Wilde |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2018-11-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1788730356 |
Works of Wilde’s annus mirabilis of 1891 in one volume, with an introduction by renowned British playwright. The Soul of Man Under Socialism draw on works from a single miraculous year in which Oscar Wilde published the larger part of his greatest works in prose—the year he came into maturity as an artist. Before the end of 1891, he had written the first of his phenomenally successful plays and met the young man who would win his heart, beginning the love affair that would lead to imprisonment and public infamy. In a witty introduction, playwright, novelist and Wilde scholar Neil Bartlett explains what made this point in the writer’s life central to his genius and why Wilde remains a provocative and radical figure to this day. Included here are the entirety of Wilde’s foray into political philosophy, The Soul of Man Under Socialism; the complete essay collection Intentions; selections from The Portrait of Dorian Gray as well as its paradoxical and scandalous preface; and some of Wilde’s greatest fictions for children. Each selection is accompanied by stimulating and enlightening annotations. A delight for fans of Oscar Wilde, In Praise of Disobedience will revitalize an often misunderstood legacy.
Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : Modern Library |
Total Pages | : 799 |
Release | : 2000-11-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0679642021 |
Henry David Thoreau's vision of personal freedom is indelibly etched on the American consciousness. 'We need the tonic of wildness,' Thoreau wrote in Walden, and by turning his back on town amenities to build a house on Walden Pond in 1845, he helped shape our notions of the individual, subsistence, and a moral relation to nature. Raising white beans and potatoes that he sold to his Concord neighbors, he stayed for two years; his book records both the philosophy he developed while living alone and the facts of his everyday life. Included here with the complete text of Walden are selections from Thoreau's first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; 'A Plea for Captain John Brown,' his eloquent defense of the American abolitionist's rebellion at Harper's Ferry, and such masterpieces as his famous essay 'Civil Disobedience,' in which he describes a night spent in prison for refusing to pay a poll tax to a government that condoned slavery.
Author | : Howard Zinn |
Publisher | : Seven Stories Press |
Total Pages | : 754 |
Release | : 2011-01-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1583229469 |
No other radical historian has reached so many hearts and minds as Howard Zinn. It is rare that a historian of the Left has managed to retain as much credibility while refusing to let his academic mantle change his beautiful writing style from being anything but direct, forthright, and accessible. Whether his subject is war, race, politics, economic justice, or history itself, each of his works serves as a reminder that to embrace one's subjectivity can mean embracing one's humanity, that heart and mind can speak with one voice. Here, in six sections, is the historian's own choice of his shorter essays on some of the most critical problems facing America throughout its history, and today.
Author | : John Grafton |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2012-02-29 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0486110680 |
Thirteen compelling and influential documents: Henry's "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death," Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, Washington's First Inaugural Address, The Monroe Doctrine, The Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, more.