Henry David Thoreau (jul 12, 1817 – may 6, 1867)

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Geboren und gestorben in Concord (wie Emerson), beeinflusst von Emerson!
Harvard von 1833-1837, 1845 zwei Jahre Walden Pond:
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. [...] I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and REDUCE it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were SUBLIME, to know it by experience, and be able to give a TRUE ACCOUNT of it in my next excursion."

Wichtige Themen: "Minimalismus" (REDUCE)", "wahres Leben (DISCOVER THAT I HAD NOT LIVED)", "Erleben (TRUE ACCOUNT)", "Das Erhabene (SUBLIME)"

Außerdem: "Civil Disobedience" (1849), bezahlte 1846 seine "Poll taxes" nicht wegen Mexican-American War und slavery: ruft zu friedvollem Ungehorsam auf.

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