On Being a Native: Thoreau's Hermeneutics of Self

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Henry David Thoreau was jailed in Concord, Massachusetts, for refusing to pay taxes to support the U.S. war with Mexico. But the imprisonment that troubled him more was that which restrained his fellows from becoming individuals or "natives." This article explores Thoreau's vision of individuality, his conception of the ideal self and how it is cultivated. The author puts Thoreau's writings on civil disobedience into a larger context of his concerns about nature, friendship, and individuality.

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