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Thoreau's Negative Contribution To Intellectualism And Its Significance To America's Cultural Identity, Keith D. Leisner
Thoreau's Negative Contribution To Intellectualism And Its Significance To America's Cultural Identity, Keith D. Leisner
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In American society, our lives, consisted of professional and familial obligations, bind us to our constitutions and prevent us from drastically altering the construction of our beliefs. Consequently, the intellectual, the individual who embodies knowledge from pure reason, appears unconcerned with personal crises. This appearance in Henry David Thoreau’s “Resistance to Civil Government” and Walden fosters a negative stereotype regarding intellectualism, contributing to America’s schismatic cultural identity.
In “Thoreau on Poverty and Magnanimity,” Thomas Woodson analyzes the perspective of letters exchanged between Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thoreau. Emerson describes the poor working conditions of Concord, Massachusetts rail workers, with focus …