TY  - BOOK
AU  - Taylor,Bob Pepperman
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - America's Bachelor Uncle : : Thoreau and the American Polity / 
T2  - American political thought
SN  - 9780700631261
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Lawrence
PB  - University Press of Kansas
KW  - Thoreau, Henry David.
KW  - Thoreau, Henry David
KW  - Thoreau, Henry David,
KW  - Politisches Denken
KW  - gnd
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - fast
KW  - Political and social views
KW  - National characteristics, American, in literature
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Americains dans la litterature
KW  - Politique et litterature
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siecle
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Fellow citizens to remember that they were responsible for independently evaluating the behavior of their government and political community; Understanding of human society, Thoreau is resurrected here as a profound social critic with more on his mind than utopian daydreams. Rather than the aloof and private individualist spurned by conservatives and championed by radicals and environmentalists, Taylor portrays Thoreau as a genuinely engaged political theorist concerned with the moral foundations of public life. Like a solicitous "bachelor uncle" (an allusion to his journals), Thoreau persistently prodded his; Emphatically revisionist, this book reveals a Thoreau most people never knew existed. Contrary to conventional views, Bob Pepperman Taylor argues that Thoreau was one of America's most powerful and least understood political thinkers, a man who promoted community and democratic values while being ever vigilant against the evils of excessive or illegitimate authority. Still widely perceived as a remarkable nature writer but simplistic philosopher with no real
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/94118/
ER  -