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公民抗命
1848年，為了支持反對奴隸制的事業，梭羅（Henry David Thoreau）第一次發表了演講《公民抗命》。但是，直到20世紀，梭羅政治思想的價值才逐漸為世人所認識。《公民抗命》是啟迪甘地和馬丁‧路德‧金的重要文獻，影響了20世紀60年代的學生激進主義運動。許多當代政治思想（不信任政府力量；抵制投票的直接行動；反全球化運動），都是從梭羅的個人的重要性、有識之土的異議、非暴力抵抗等思想發展而來的。本書大量徵引《公民抗命》的內容。作者Andrew Kirk也在本書中對該文獻的歷史背景和在世界範圍內的反響進行了分析、評述。
128 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 2004
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June 27, 2018
Well, this booklet can be read in one day. So that's a challenge if you want it. The essay proper is not presented in a complete form. This seems an oversight, one would assume the essay in its' entirety would be printed. What little has been prohibited this text (5-7% in my estimate) seems of no greater consequence than what was included, some more names & places are mentioned.
The booklet gives the reader awareness of the time & place of Henry David Thoreau, then the life of the text independent of the man. Excellent frame-work material for the historian, more 'snapshot booklets' should be written this way. Excepting of course when the entire source material can be included, it should. A note of nervousness should be felt, as his collected works number some 20 volumes. I wouldn't want to read all that.
Better than other 'snapshot booklets', but without what could've been included.
The booklet gives the reader awareness of the time & place of Henry David Thoreau, then the life of the text independent of the man. Excellent frame-work material for the historian, more 'snapshot booklets' should be written this way. Excepting of course when the entire source material can be included, it should. A note of nervousness should be felt, as his collected works number some 20 volumes. I wouldn't want to read all that.
Better than other 'snapshot booklets', but without what could've been included.
September 15, 2018
I've been reading a lot of fluff so after seeing that Thoreau's Civil Disobedience impacted both Gandhi and MLK at the MLK National Historic site, I decided I should read it because I don't think I did in High school. The FB HS library is attached to our public one so in order to get the essay, it came in a book with historical background and impact which I was glad to read also.
When I began the document, I thought it sounded like a bunch of idealized libertarian nonsense-good if you can live alone at a pond but not for the real world-but then he addresses his opposition to the Mexican war and slavery, things the US government supported at the time and that part was more interesting to me. And I'm not the only one to see different sides to it, everyone from anarchists (which he wasn't) to socialist (that either) have supported their causes through it.
When I began the document, I thought it sounded like a bunch of idealized libertarian nonsense-good if you can live alone at a pond but not for the real world-but then he addresses his opposition to the Mexican war and slavery, things the US government supported at the time and that part was more interesting to me. And I'm not the only one to see different sides to it, everyone from anarchists (which he wasn't) to socialist (that either) have supported their causes through it.
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