HENRY THOREAU, NATURE, AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
作者:
Bob Pepperman Taylor,
期刊:
Journal of Social Philosophy
(WILEY Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 25,
issue 1
页码: 46-64
ISSN:0047-2786
年代: 1994
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9833.1994.tb00304.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
In a famous passage from “Slavery In Massachusetts,” Thoreau writes, “The remembrance of my country spoils my walk. My thoughts are murder to the State, and involuntarily go plotting against her.”1Here is Thoreau the anarchist, the misanthrope, the self‐righteous angry young man, as he is so often portrayed in the secondary literature. It would be easy to consider the issue resolved: the conventional wisdom about Thoreau's misanthropy and anarchism are demonstrated, and there is little more to say. It would also be a significant mistake—one that has been made over and over again by commentators on both his political views and his nature writings. Thoreau's comment is not the climax of “Slavery in Massachusetts,” but rather is the prelude to the climax. Consider the passage that follows and leads to the conclusi
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