{"product_id":"on-civil-disobedience-paperback","title":"On Civil Disobedience - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHannah Arendt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eHenry David Thoreau\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRoger Berkowitz\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTogether for the first time, classic essays on how and when to disobey the government from two of the greatest thinkers in our literature\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs we grapple with how to respond to emerging threats against democracy, Library of America brings together for the first time two seminal essays about the duties of citizenship and the imperatives of conscience. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \"Resistance to Civil Government\" (1849), \u003cb\u003eHenry David Thoreau\u003c\/b\u003e recounts the story of a night he spent in jail for refusing to pay poll taxes, which he believed supported the Mexican American War and the expansion of slavery. His larger aim was to articulate a view of individual conscience as a force in American politics. No writer has made a more persuasive case for obedience to a \"higher law.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \"Civil Disobedience\" (1970), \u003cb\u003eHannah Arendt\u003c\/b\u003e offers a stern rebuttal to Thoreau. For Arendt, Thoreau stands in willful opposition to the public and collective spirit that defines civil disobedience. Only through positive collective action and the promises we make to each other in a civil society can meaningful change occur. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis deluxe paperback features an introduction by Roger Berkowitz, Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and Professor of Politics, Philosophy, and Human Rights at Bard College, who reflects on the tradition of civil disobedience and the future of American politics.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHENRY DAVID THOREAU\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817. He graduated from Harvard in 1837, the same year he began his lifelong Journal. While living at Walden Pond, Thoreau worked on the two books published during his lifetime: \u003ci\u003eWalden\u003c\/i\u003e (1854) and \u003ci\u003eA Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers\u003c\/i\u003e (1849). Several of his other works, including \u003ci\u003eThe Maine Woods\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCape Cod\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eExcursions\u003c\/i\u003e, were published posthumously. Thoreau died in Concord, at the age of forty-four, in 1862. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eHANNAH ARENDT\u003c\/b\u003e (1906-1975) was one of the foremost political philosophers of the twentieth century, the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Origins of Totalitarianism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Human Condition\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEichmann in Jerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOn Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e, and the posthumously published \u003ci\u003eThe Life of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e. Her commentaries on modern American and European politics and on the history of political thought were collected in \u003ci\u003eEssays in Understanding\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThinking Without a Banister\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eResponsibility and Judgment\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e ROGER BERKOWITZ\u003c\/b\u003e is Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center and Professor of Politics, Philosophy, and Human Rights at Bard College. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 152\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.4 x 4.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 10, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52689115218253,"sku":"9781598537918","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/KmwgiIhbb39781598537918.webp?v=1761956449","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/on-civil-disobedience-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}