1st Edition

The Routledge Guidebook to Thoreau's Civil Disobedience

By Bob Pepperman Taylor Copyright 2015
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

Since its publication in 1849, Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience has influenced protestors, activists and political thinkers all over the world. Including the full text of Thoreau’s essay, The Routledge Guidebook to Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience explores the context of his writing, analyses different interpretations of the text and considers how posthumous edits to Civil Disobedience... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Reading Civil Disobedience  3. Interpretations  4. Problems in Political Philosophy  5. Thoreau and American Political Thought  6. Text of Civil Disobedience  Bibliography

Biography

Bob Pepperman Taylor is based in the Department of Political Science at the University of Vermont.