![]() ![]() Likewise, it was only many years after his death that he came to be regarded as one of the foremost American writers, both for the modern clarity of his prose style and for his prescient views on nature and politics. He adhered to no recognizable political position, but his work to some extent influenced later generations of Anarchists, Marxists and Existentialists. He was involved with the 19th Century American Transcendentalism movement of his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson.Īlthough relatively unknown to the general public during his own lifetime, the influence of his philosophy of civil disobedience and non-violent resistance has been specifically credited by such later figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) was an American philosopher, naturalist, writer and political activist of the early Modern period. By Individual Philosopher > Henry David Thoreau ![]()
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