The Economist: Henry Thoreau and EnterpriseOxford University Press, 4 mei 1989 - 232 pagina's This major study brings to light Thoreau's relation to the complex economic discourse of his time and place. Specifically, it examines the impact of transformations in economic thinking and behavior that occurred in antebellum New England and America; these transformations at the level of language; and Thoreau's awareness of these transformations. Neufeldt situates Thoreau in significant economic conditions of his time, investigating how these conditions contained him even as he sought to contain them. Using Walden and "Life without Principle," as main examples, the book considers the questions of why and how Thoreau, who was very much shaped by his culture and its conventions, also contested the limitations of those conventions and used his condition to transform some of them. Thoreau's identity as a literary artist who regarded his writing as his cultural vocation is at the center of the discussion. |
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Enterprise Economy and Vocation | 21 |
Walden and the Guidebook for Young Men | 99 |
Afterword | 191 |
Appendix | 197 |
Index | 205 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 183 - I only know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, of thoughts and affections; and am sensible of a certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another.
Pagina 57 - If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Pagina 66 - The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well...
Pagina 183 - I would not have any one adopt my mode of living on any account ; for, beside that before he has fairly learned it I may have found out another for myself, I desire , that there may be as many different persons in the world as possible ; but I would have each one be very careful to find out and pursue his own way, and not his father's or his mother's or his neighbor's instead.
Pagina 157 - I would fain say something, not so much concerning the Chinese and Sandwich Islanders as you who read these pages, who are said to live in New England; something about your condition, especially your outward condition or circumstances in this world, in this town, what it is, whether it is necessary that it be as bad as it is, whether it cannot be improved as well as not.
Pagina 64 - Alas! I said this to myself ; but now another summer is gone, and another, and another, and I am obliged /to say to you, Reader, that the seeds which I planted, if indeed they were the seeds of those virtues, were wormeaten or had lost their vitality, and so did not come up.