Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) was 'n Amerikaanse skrywer en filosoof. Hy is veral bekend vir sy boek, Walden, waarin hy peins oor 'n eenvoudige lewe in 'n natuurlike omgewing, asook sy opstel Civil Disobedience ("Burgerlike ongehoorsaamheid"), waarin hy 'n argument stel vir individuele weerstand teen staatsregering ten tye van morele opposisie van 'n onregverdige staat.
Thoreau se boeke, artikels, opstelle, joernale en gedigte tel saam meer as 20 volumes. Tussen sy blywende bydraes was sy skrywes oor natuurgeskiedenis, waarin hy die metodiek en vindings van ekologie voorsien het, en omgewingsgeskiedenis; beide vorms van moderne omgewingskunde.
Hy was sy lewe lank ten gunste van die afskaffing van slawerny en het lesings gegee wat die wette rakende voortvlugtende slawe aangeval het. Hy het die skrywes van Wendell Phillips geprys en ander ondersteuners van die afskaffing van slawerny, soos John Brown, verdedig. Thoreau se filosofie van burgerlike ongehoorsaamheid het die politieke denke en dade van latere figure soos Leo Tolstoi, Mahatma Gandhi en Martin Luther King jr. beïnvloed.
Daar word soms na Thoreau verwys as 'n individualistiese anargisJohnson, Ellwood. The Goodly Word: The Puritan Influence in America Literature, Clements Publishing, 2005, bl. 138.Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, edited by Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman, Alvin Saunders Johnson, 1937, bl. 12. en 'n inspirasie vir ander anargiste. Alhoewel sy skrywes die verbetering, liewer as afskaffing van regering aanbeveel,"I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government" Thoreau, H. D. Resistance to Civil Government mik die genoemde verbeterings na regeringloosheid: "Die beste regering is een wat geensins regeer nie en wanneer mense daarop voorbereid is, sal dit die soort regering wees wat hulle sal hê".“‘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.”Thoreau, H. D. Resistance to Civil Government
Werke Aulus Persius Flaccus (1840)Aulus Persius Flaccus from the Writings of Henry David Thoreau: The Digital Collection The Service (1840) A Walk to Wachusett (1842)A Walk to Wachusett from the Writings of Henry David Thoreau: The Digital Collection Paradise (to be) Regained (1843)Paradise (to be) Regained from the Writings of Henry David Thoreau: The Digital Collection The Landlord (1843) Sir Walter Raleigh (essay) (1844) Herald of Freedom (essay)(1844)Herald of Freedom from the Writings of Henry David Thoreau: The Digital Collection Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum (1845)Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum from the Writings of Henry David Thoreau: The Digital Collection Reform and the Reformers (1846–48) Thomas Carlyle and His Works (1847)Thomas Carlyle and His Works from the Writings of Henry David Thoreau: The Digital Collection A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) Civil Disobedience of On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1849) An Excursion to Canada (1853)A Yankee in Canada from the Writings of Henry David Thoreau: The Digital Collection Slavery in Massachusetts (1854)Slavery in Massachusetts from the Writings of Henry David Thoreau: The Digital Collection Walden (1854)Walden from the Writings of Henry David Thoreau: The Digital Collection A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859)A Plea for Captain John Brown from the Writings of Henry David Thoreau: The Digital Collection Remarks After the Hanging of John Brown (1859)After the Death of John Brown from the Writings of Henry David Thoreau: The Digital Collection The Last Days of John Brown (1860) Walking (1862) Autumnal Tints (1862)Autumnal Tints from the Writings of Henry David Thoreau: The Digital Collection Wild Apples: The History of the Apple Tree (1862) The Fall of the Leaf (1863) Excursions (bundel) (1863) Life Without Principle (1863) Night and Moonlight (1863) The Highland Light (1864) The Maine Woods (1864)The Maine Woods from The Thoreau Reader Ten volle geannoteerde uitgawe. Jeffrey S. Cramer, red., Yale University Press, 2009 Cape Cod (1865) Letters to Various Persons (1865) A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers (1866) Early Spring in Massachusetts (1881) Summer (1884) Winter (1888) Autumn (1892) Miscellanies (1894)Miscellanies from the Writings of Henry David Thoreau: The Digital Collection Familiar Letters of Henry David Thoreau (1894) Poems of Nature (1895) Some Unpublished Letters of Henry D. and Sophia E. Thoreau (1898) The First and Last Journeys of Thoreau (1905) Journal of Henry David Thoreau (1906)The Journal of Henry D. Thoreau from the Writings of Henry David Thoreau: The Digital Collection The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau geredigeer deur Walter Harding en Carl Bode (Washington Square: New York University Press, 1958)The Correspondence of Thoreau from the Writings of Henry David Thoreau: The Digital Collection Poets of the English Language (Viking Press, 1950) I Was Made Erect and Lone The Bluebird Carries the Sky on His Back (Stanyan, 1970) The Dispersion of Seeds gepubliseer as Faith in a Seed (Island Press, 1993) The Indian Notebooks (1847-1861) keur deur Richard F. Fleck
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