Edited by Diego Clares Costa
Henry David Thoreau is known as a political thinker and author of the essays "Civil Disobedience" and "Walden". More recently, his facet as a nature lover and precursor of environmentalism has been highlighted. But Thoreau was, above all, a religious and spiritual man, of a spirituality critical of established beliefs. The complexity and variety of his thoughts is reflected in his multiple religious references, in his aspect as a creator of myths and fables, and in his tendency to reflect on the moral sense of existence in the world beyond social conventions. This edition is the first complete journey through this spiritual dimension of the "savage philosopher" who rejected museum knowledge and the mere accumulation of knowledge that does not pass through an awareness of uncertainty and the practical and emotional involvement of the self in the worl...read more
