Henry David Thoreau
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La presente edición es el primer recorrido completo por la dimensión espiritual del «filósofo salvaje» que rechazó el saber museístico y la mera acumulación de conocimientos que no pasan por una conciencia de la incertidumbre y por la implicación práctica y emocional del yo en el mundo. A través de textos tomados de sus obras, de sus diarios y de su correspondencia, este libro ofrece una visión panorámica que introduce al lector en los...
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"In wildness is the preservation of the world."
Here are three of Thoreau's most famous talks brought together in one volume. "Walking," "Autumnal Tints," and "Wild Apples" are all autumn essays-contemplative, deliberate, and insightful. They are profound reflections on nature, beauty, and our place in the world. In 1862, during Thoreau's last weeks, he received a request from The Atlantic Monthly's new editor, James Fields, to submit some of his...
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A collection of famous transcendentalist essays from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
Nature, Self Reliance, Walking, and Civil Disobedience.
In Nature, Emerson put forth the foundation of transcendentalism, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature. Transcendentalism suggests that the divine, or God, suffuses nature, and suggests that reality can be understood by studying nature.
Self Reliance contains...