How To Mind Your Own Business
Thoreau on Political Indifference
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16310994 |
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| Authors | Jonathan Mckenzie (Jonathan McKenzie, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northern Kentucky University, is currently completing a book manuscript on Henry David Thoreau's political theory., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 422-443 |
| Publication date | 2011-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The New England Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-4866 • E-ISSN: 1937-2213 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/tneq_a_00110 |
| OpenAlex | W2098637617 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Critics have long been unable to square Henry D. Thoreau's individualist philosophy with his intermittent political participation. In order to clarify Thoreau's intentions, this essay offers an explication of Thoreau's defense of political indifference as a unique and challenging response to the United States' political problems during the mid-nineteenth-century
Aesthetics · Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Explication · Individualism · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Progressivism · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Thoreau and American Literature
| Highly cited | No |
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