ajed
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Emerson?
Mar 3, 2015 21:17:54 GMT -5
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Post by ajed on Mar 3, 2015 21:17:54 GMT -5
I just got a copy of his Self Reliance and other Essays
people, thoughts upon the essays & the New England Transcendentalists
thoughts?
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art
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Post by art on Mar 4, 2015 0:02:06 GMT -5
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Post by codalunga on Mar 9, 2015 10:08:01 GMT -5
I wrote a dissertation on the relationship between H. D. Thoreau and the anarcho-primitivist's thought. Can't talk about Emerson since I'm not very into him, but Thoreau's opinions on technology, linear time, language and agriculture are stunning. Walking is by far his more "anti-civ" work, but his journals include rare gems.
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mg
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Post by mg on Mar 9, 2015 23:58:53 GMT -5
Is there an edition or collection of thoreau's journals you'd recommend above others? I've always been overwhelmed by all of the material and different publishings. I'm mostly interested in the more anti civ works
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Emerson?
Mar 10, 2015 8:07:37 GMT -5
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Post by codalunga on Mar 10, 2015 8:07:37 GMT -5
Is there an edition or collection of thoreau's journals you'd recommend above others? I've always been overwhelmed by all of the material and different publishings. I'm mostly interested in the more anti civ works Unfortunately I haven't read any critical edition of Thoreau's Journals, but rather different essays - books concerning on specific subjects of his poetic. None of them is bounded to a single work, as they include analysis of all his major works, and I haven't find a single essay dealing in its totality with Thoreau's anti-civ thoughts. There are nevertheless essays form which you can easily infer his concept of civilization and of its "leviathanic structure", so to say. I guess a starting point would be " The Concord Saunterer" journal: go through some of its issues and I'm pretty sure you'll find something that will draw your attention. |
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