On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David (9798880909148)

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

by Thoreau, Henry David

Hardcover - English

Civil Disobedience argues that citizens should not permit their governments to overrule their consciences and that they have a duty to avoid allowing their acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice.

Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican-American War but the sentiments he expresses here are just as pertinent today as when they were first written. A true American classic.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

ISBN

EAN

9798880909148

Publisher

START CLASSICS NBN

Publication Date

15 May 2024

Pages

Weight (kg)

0.18

Dimensions (cm)

20.3 x 12.7 x 0.6

About Author

Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, and philosopher, who is best known for his works Walden--a treatise about living in concert with the natural world--and Civil Disobedience, in which he espoused the need to morally resist the actions of an unjust state. Thoreau's work heavily reflects the ideologies of the American transcendentalists, and he has long been considered a leading figure in the movement along with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bronson Alcott, and, at first, Nathaniel Hawthorne (who changed his views later in life). In addition to his writing, which totaled more than twenty v