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Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

Auteur de Walden ou La vie dans les bois

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In September 1842, Nathaniel Hawthorne noted this social encounter in his journal: "Mr. Thorow dined with us yesterday. He is a singular character---a young man with much of wild original nature still remaining in him; and so far as he is sophisticated, it is in a way and method of his own. He is afficher plus as ugly as sin, long-nosed, queer-mouthed, and with uncouth and somewhat rustic, although courteous manners, corresponding very well with such an exterior. But his ugliness is of an honest and agreeable fashion, and becomes him much better than beauty. On the whole, I find him a healthy and wholesome man to know." Most responses to Thoreau are as ambiguously respectful as was Hawthorne's. Thoreau was neither an easy person to like nor an easy writer to read. Thoreau described himself as a mystic, a Transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher. He is a writer of essays about nature---not of facts about it but of his ideals and emotions in its presence. His wish to understand nature led him to Walden Pond, where he lived from 1845 to 1847 in a cabin that he built. Though he was an educated man with a Harvard degree, fluent in ancient and modern German, he preferred to study nature by living "a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust." Knowing this, we should beware of misreading the book that best reflected this great experience in Thoreau's life: Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854). It is not a handbook of the simple life. Though there are elements in the book of a "whole-earth catalogue" mentality, to focus on the radical "economic" aspects of Thoreau's work is to miss much in the book. Nor is it an autobiography. The right way to read Walden is as a "transcendental" narrative prose poem, whose hero is a man named Henry, a modern Odysseus in search of a "true America." Thoreau left Walden Pond on September 6, 1846, exactly two years, two months, and two days after he had settled there. As he explained in the pages of Walden: "I left the woods for as good a reason as I went to live there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one." Growth, change, and development were essential to his character. One should not overlook the significance of his selecting July 4 as the day for taking possession of his residence at Walden Pond, a day that celebrates the establishment of a new government whose highest ideal is individual freedom. In terms of Thoreau's redefinition of the nation-idea, "the only true America" is that place where one may grow wild according to one's nature, where one may "enjoy the land, but own it not." Thoreau believed that each person should live according to individual conscience, willing to oppose the majority if necessary. An early proponent of nonviolent resistance, he was jailed briefly for refusing to pay his poll tax to support the Mexican War and the slave system that had promoted that war. His essay "On Civil Disobedience" (1849), which came from this period of passive resistance, was acknowledged by Mahatma Gandhi (who read it in a South African jail) as the basis for his campaign to free India. Martin Luther King, Jr. later attributed to Thoreau and Gandhi the inspiration for his leadership in the civil rights movement in the United States. Thoreau contracted tuberculosis in 1835 and suffered from it sporadically afterwards. His health declined over three years with brief periods of remission, until he eventually became bedridden. Recognizing the terminal nature of his disease, Thoreau spent his last years revising and editing his unpublished works, particularly The Maine Woods and Excursions, and petitioning publishers to print revised editions of A Week and Walden. He died on May 6, 1862 at age 44. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins

Œuvres de Henry David Thoreau

Walden ou La vie dans les bois (1854) — Auteur — 13,752 exemplaires
Walden / Civil Disobedience (1849) 7,439 exemplaires
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays (1849) 1,739 exemplaires
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Walking (1862) 880 exemplaires
The Portable Thoreau (1947) 842 exemplaires
Cap Cod (1865) 769 exemplaires
Les forêts du Maine (1950) 749 exemplaires
Walden and other writings (1993) 740 exemplaires
Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition (1854) 619 exemplaires
Thoreau: On Man and Nature (1960) 410 exemplaires
Collected Essays and Poems (2001) 346 exemplaires
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For (2005) 329 exemplaires
Walden and Other Writings (1937) 318 exemplaires
The Heart of Thoreau's Journals (1927) 198 exemplaires
The Natural History Essays (1980) 142 exemplaires
Letters to a Spiritual Seeker (2004) 139 exemplaires
Reflections at Walden (1968) 138 exemplaires
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Journal, Volume 3 (1992) 7 exemplaires
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Journal, Volume 5 (1997) 6 exemplaires
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Lob der Wildnis (2013) 5 exemplaires
Henry David Thoreau Selected Writings (1958) — Auteur — 5 exemplaires
Thoreau's New England (2007) 5 exemplaires
Randonnée au mont Wachusett (2018) 5 exemplaires
Walden and Selected Essays (1992) 4 exemplaires
Voisins animaux (2020) 4 exemplaires
Diarios. Breve antología. (2002) 4 exemplaires
Through the Year with Thoreau (1917) 4 exemplaires
Journal, Volume 6 (2000) 4 exemplaires
El Diario - Volumen Ii (2017) 4 exemplaires
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A Novel Journal: Walden (Compact) (2016) 3 exemplaires
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Nature and Walking (2011) 3 exemplaires
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The Thoreau Collection (CD-ROM) (1999) 2 exemplaires
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Til naturen (2017) 2 exemplaires
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Essais (2007) 2 exemplaires
Journal, 1837-1852 (2002) 2 exemplaires
The service (2021) 2 exemplaires
Night and Moonlight (2013) 2 exemplaires
Primavera 2 exemplaires
Friendship, Love and Marriage (2010) 2 exemplaires
An Excursion to Canada (2012) 2 exemplaires
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (2018) 2 exemplaires
The New Walden 2 exemplaires
Henry David Thoreau, Collection (2014) 2 exemplaires
WALDEN And Other Stories (1937) 2 exemplaires
Shoe-strings 1 exemplaire
Cape Cod, vol. 2 1 exemplaire
Cape Cod, vol. 1 1 exemplaire
Cape Cod, Vol. II 1 exemplaire
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The Essential Thoreau (2008) 1 exemplaire
Deník (2020) 1 exemplaire
The Angle of Dazzle 1 exemplaire
WALDEN, or Life in the Woods (1997) 1 exemplaire
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The Writings VI (2016) 1 exemplaire
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A Walk to Land's End 1 exemplaire
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Nom légal
Thoreau, David Henry
Autre(s) nom(s)
Thoreau, Henry David
Date de naissance
1817-07-12
Date de décès
1862-05-06
Lieu de sépulture
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts, USA
Sexe
male
Nationalité
Etats-Unis
Lieu de naissance
Concord, Massachusetts, Etats-Unis
Lieu du décès
Concord, Massachusetts, Etats-Unis
Lieux de résidence
Concord, Massachusetts, Etats-Unis
New York, New York, Etats-Unis
Études
Harvard College (AB|1837)
Professions
teacher
writer
essayist
poet
philosopher
inventor (tout afficher 7)
pencil maker
Relations
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (friend)
Alcott, Louisa May (student)
Fuller, Margaret (friend)
Jackson, Lidian (friend)
Organisations
Underground Railroad
Huckleberry Party
Transcendentalism
Courte biographie
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.

Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry amount to more than 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, in which he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close observation of nature, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and attention to practical detail. He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time he advocated abandoning waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs.

He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending the abolitionist John Brown. Thoreau's philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced the political thoughts and actions of such notable figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr.

Thoreau is sometimes referred to as an anarchist. Though "Civil Disobedience" seems to call for improving rather than abolishing government—"I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government"—the direction of this improvement contrarily points toward anarchism: "'That government is best which governs not at all;' and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have."

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> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Thoreau-Les-citations-ecologiques-avant-lheure/97...

> « Chaque ville devrait avoir un parc ou plutôt une forêt
primitive, de cinq cents ou un millier d’acres, où on ne
couperait jamais une seule branche pour la brûler
dans la cheminée, un bien commun pour toujours,
pour l’instruction et la récréation. »

—Henry David Thoreau u - 1859
… (plus d'informations)
 
Signalé
Joop-le-philosophe | Dec 7, 2022 |
> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Thoreau-Balades/98859

> « Chercher à soigner l’âme sans référence
au système écologique dont nous sommes
partie intégrante, constitue une forme
d’aveuglement auto-destructeur. »

—Lester R. Brown - Ecopsychology
and environnemental revolution
.

> BALADES, de Thoreau, H.D. — Un petit livre d'une douceur inégalé, une balade dans la nature, la contemplation, tel est le message que veut nous livrer cet auteur. Il nous donne le goût de sortir de chez-nous, de nous faire découvrir un état d’être et ce à travers notre quotidien.
--La revue, 18 avril 1995 … ; (Source),
URL : https://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/2694639
… (plus d'informations)
 
Signalé
Joop-le-philosophe | 1 autre critique | Jul 11, 2021 |
> Réédition du texte qui a défini la désobéissance civile et qui a inspiré depuis de nombreux militants non-violents : des luttes pour les droits civiques aux Etats-Unis aux faucheurs d’OGM. Un classique.
--Revue Silence, janv. 2008

> Ce texte qui date de 1849 est toujours d’une criante actualité Il est — avec rel="nofollow" target="_top">le discours de la servitude volontaire d'Etienne de la Boétie — un des classiques de la contestation sociale : si nous avons une société qui ne fonctionne pas, c'est avant tout parce que nous ne nous prenons pas en main et parce que nous acceptons que d'autres décident à notre place. A commander en gros et à offrir à tous ceux qui râlent et ne font rien.
--Revue Silence, oct. 1998

> La Désobéissance civile, de Henry David THOREAU (Typo, Montréal, 1994, 120 p.)
Se reporter au compte rendu de Judy QUINN
In: Peterson, M. (2004). Compte rendu de [Comentaires de lecture : essai]. Nuit blanche, le magazine du livre, (97), pp. 16-17… ; (en ligne),
URL : https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/19074ac

> La Désobéissance civile, de Henry David THOREAU (Typo, Montréal, 1994, 112p. Coll. « Essais »)
Se reporter au compte rendu de Christiane LAHAIE
In: (1996). Compte rendu de [Nouveautés]. Québec français, (100), p. 24… ; (en ligne),
URL : https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/58689ac… (plus d'informations)
 
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Joop-le-philosophe | 29 autres critiques | May 22, 2020 |

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Œuvres
524
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62
Membres
41,925
Popularité
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Évaluation
3.9
Critiques
433
ISBN
1,912
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27
Favoris
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