Inhaltszusammenfassung

Readers of Thoreau rarely react with equanimity to his writings. While his admirers celebrate this Transcendentalist as a pioneer of modern envionmentalilsm or as a major inspiration for civil rights leaders such as Mohandas Ghandi and Martin Luther King, his detractors tend to dismiss him as a cheap imitation of his mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson. Moreover, from James Russell Lowell to today some of the most scathing criticism has been directed at what appears to be the escapist and anti-social ...Readers of Thoreau rarely react with equanimity to his writings. While his admirers celebrate this Transcendentalist as a pioneer of modern envionmentalilsm or as a major inspiration for civil rights leaders such as Mohandas Ghandi and Martin Luther King, his detractors tend to dismiss him as a cheap imitation of his mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson. Moreover, from James Russell Lowell to today some of the most scathing criticism has been directed at what appears to be the escapist and anti-social thrust of his individualism. This book focuses on the latter charge. It examines Thoreau's of the self in light of the recent controversy between proponents of liberal individualism, notably John Rawls, and a group of communitarian theorists ant includes Michael Sandel, Charles Taylor, and Michael Walzer.» weiterlesen» einklappen

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Englische Literatur Amerikas