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Works By Thoreau
- Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ed. Jeffrey Cramer, New
Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. Originally published in 1854.
Parenthetical citations indicate with roman numerals which of
Walden’s 18 chapters is the source of each
quotation. (Scholar)
- The Journal of Henry D. Thoreau, 14 volumes, ed. B.
Torrey and F. Allen, New York: Dover, 1962. Originally published in
1906. Parenthetical citations give the date of each entry. (Scholar)
- The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, ed. Walter
Harding and Carl Bode, New York: New York University Press, 1958.
Citations give the date of the letter quoted. (Scholar)
- Consciousness in Concord: The Text of Thoreau’s Hitherto
“Lost Journal” (1840–1841), ed. Perry Miller,
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958. Citations give the date of each
entry. (Scholar)
- The Indians of Thoreau: Selections from the Indian
Notebooks, ed. Richard Fleck, Albuquerque: Hummingbird Press,
1974.
- Early Essays and Miscellanies, ed. Joseph Moldenhauer
et al., Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975.
- A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, ed. C. Hovde
et al., Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980.
Originally published in 1849. (Scholar)
- The Maine Woods, New York: Penguin Books, 1988.
Originally published in 1864. (Scholar)
- Cape Cod, ed. J. Moldenhauer, Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1988. Originally published in 1865. (Scholar)
- Faith in a Seed: The Dispersion of Seeds and Other Late
Natural History Writings, ed. Bradley Dean, Washington, DC:
Island Press, 1993.
- Wild Fruits, ed. Bradley Dean, New York: W. W. Norton,
2000.
- Collected Essays and Poems, ed. Elizabeth Hall Witherell,
New York: Penguin / Library of America, 2001. Contains “Natural
History of Massachusetts” (originally published in 1842),
“A Winter Walk” (1843), “Civil Disobedience”
(1849), “Slavery in Massachusetts” (1854), “A Plea
for Captain John Brown” (1860), “Walking” (1862),
“Autumnal Tints” (1862), “Life Without
Principle” (1863), and “Chastity and Sensuality”
(1865). (Scholar)
Selected Works by Other Authors
- Alexander, Samuel, 2019, “The Search for Freedom, Sustainability,
and Economic Security: Henry David Thoreau as Tiny House Pioneer,”
Ethical Perspectives, 26: 559–582. (Scholar)
- Andersen, Nathan, 2010, “Exemplars in Environmental Ethics: Taking Seriously the Lives of Thoreau, Leopold, Dillard and Abbey,” Ethics, Place and Environment, 13: 43–55. (Scholar)
- Arsic, Branka, 2016, Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
- Balthrop-Lewis, Alda, 2019, “Exemplarist Environmental Ethics: Thoreau’s Political Asceticism against Solution Thinking,” Journal of Religious Ethics, 47: 525–550. (Scholar)
- Bates, Stanley, 2012, “Thoreau and Emersonian
Perfectionism,” in Furtak, Ellsworth, and Reid 2012,
14–30. (Scholar)
- Bennett, Jane, 1994, Thoreau’s Nature: Ethics, Politics,
and the Wild, London: Sage Publications. (Scholar)
- Black, Tim, 2021, “The Structure of Thoreau’s
Epistemology, with Continual Reference to Descartes,”
International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, 11:
269–288. (Scholar)
- Blakemore, Peter, 2000, “Reading Home: Thoreau, Nature, and
the Phenomenon of Inhabitation,” in Thoreau’s Sense of
Place, ed. Richard Schneider, Iowa City: University of Iowa
Press, 115–132. (Scholar)
- Borjesson, Gary, 1994, “A Sounding of
Walden’s Philosophical Depth,” Philosophy and
Literature, 18: 287–308. (Scholar)
- Buell, Lawrence, 1995, The Environmental Imagination,
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
- Cafaro, Philip, 2004, Thoreau’s Living Ethics: Walden
and the Pursuit of Virtue, Athens, GA: University of Georgia
Press. (Scholar)
- Callicott, J. Baird, 1999, Beyond the Land Ethic, Albany: SUNY Press. (Scholar)
- Cavell, Stanley, 1988, In Quest of the Ordinary, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 1992, The Senses of Walden,
expanded edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Originally
published in 1972. (Scholar)
- –––, 2000, “Night and Day: Heidegger and
Thoreau,” in Appropriating Heidegger, ed. J. Faulconer
and M. Wrathall, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
30–49. (Scholar)
- Chapman, Robert L., 2002, “The Goat-stag and the Sphinx: The
Place of the Virtues in Environmental Ethics,”
Environmental Values, 11: 129–144. (Scholar)
- Dann, Kevin T., 2017, Expect Great Things: The Life and Search
of Henry David Thoreau, New York: Penguin Random House. (Scholar)
- De Andrade, Clodomir B., 2022, Thoreau’s Pedagogy of
Awakening, Lanham, MD: Hamilton Books. (Scholar)
- Dull, Carl J., 2012, “Zhuangzi and Thoreau: Wandering, Nature, and Freedom,” Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 39: 222–239. (Scholar)
- Eldridge, Richard, 2003, “Cavell on American Philosophy and the Idea of America,” in Stanley Cavell, ed. Richard Eldridge, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 172–189. (Scholar)
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1836 [1993], “Nature,” in Essays: First and Second Series, ed. John Gabriel Hunt, New York: Gramercy / Library of Freedom, 1993, 282–297; originally published in 1836. (Scholar)
- Foucault, Michel, 1997, Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth,
ed. Paul Rabinow, New York: The New Press. (Scholar)
- Frothingham, Octavius B., 1886, Transcendentalism in New
England: A History, New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons. (Scholar)
- Furtak, Rick Anthony, 2003, “Thoreau’s Emotional
Stoicism,” Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 17:
122–132. (Scholar)
- –––, 2007, “Skepticism and Perceptual Faith: Henry David Thoreau and Stanley Cavell on Seeing and Believing,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 43: 542–561. (Scholar)
- Furtak, Rick Anthony; Ellsworth, Jonathan; and Reid, James D.,
editors, 2012, Thoreau’s Importance for Philosophy, New
York: Fordham University Press. (Scholar)
- Garber, Frederick, 1977, Thoreau’s Redemptive
Imagination, New York: New York University Press. (Scholar)
- Goodman, Russell B., 2012, “Thoreau and the Body,” in
Furtak, Ellsworth, and Reid 2012, 31–42. (Scholar)
- Hahn, Stephen, 2000, On Thoreau, Belmont, CA:
Wadsworth. (Scholar)
- Harding, Walter, 1962, The Days of Henry Thoreau: A
Biography, New York: Dover. (Scholar)
- Heidegger, Martin, 1996, Being and Time, Joan Stambaugh (trans.), Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
- Hodder, Alan D., 2001, Thoreau’s Ecstatic Witness,
New Haven: Yale University Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 2010, “’Let Him Be to Me a
Spirit’: Paradoxes of True Friendship in Emerson and
Thoreau,” in Lysaker and Rossi (eds.) 2010, 127–147. (Scholar)
- Hunt, Lester H., 2020, The Philosophy of Henry Thoreau:
Ethics, Politics, and Nature, London: Bloomsbury Academic. (Scholar)
- Jolley, Kelly Dean, 1996, “Walden: Philosophy and Knowledge of Humankind,” Reason Papers, 21: 36–52. (Scholar)
- Kuklick, Bruce, 2001, A History of Philosophy in America: 1720–2000, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
- Lysaker, John T.; and Rossi, William (eds.), 2010, Emerson and Thoreau: Figures of Friendship, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. (Scholar)
- Mahoney, Brendan, 2016, “Engaging the Sublime without Distance: Environmental Ethics and Aesthetic Experience,” Environmental Ethics, 38: 463–481. (Scholar)
- McGregor, Robert Kuhn, 1997, A Wider View of the Universe:
Henry Thoreau’s Study of Nature, Urbana: University of
Illinois Press. (Scholar)
- McKenzie, Jonathan, 2016, The Political Thought of Henry David Thoreau, Lexington: University of Kentucky Press. (Scholar)
- Milder, Robert, 1995, Reimagining Thoreau, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
- Mooney, Edward, 2009, Lost Intimacy in American Thought:
Recovering Personal Philosophy from Thoreau to Cavell, London:
Continuum. (Scholar)
- –––, 2015, Excursions with Thoreau: Poetry,
Philosophy, Religion, London: Bloomsbury Academic. (Scholar)
- Moran, Michael, 1967, “Henry David Thoreau,” in
The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Paul Edwards, New York:
Free Press, 8: 121–123. (Scholar)
- Nagley, Winfield, 1954, “Thoreau on Attachment, Detachment, and Non-Attachment,” Philosophy East and West, 3: 307–320. (Scholar)
- Norton, Bryan G., 1999, “Pragmatism, Adaptive Management, and Sustainability,” Environmental Values, 8: 451–466. (Scholar)
- Oelschlaeger, Max, 1991, The Idea of Wilderness, New Haven: Yale University Press. (Scholar)
- Peck, H. Daniel, 1990, Thoreau’s Morning Work, New
Haven: Yale University Press. (Scholar)
- Plotica, Luke Philip, 2017, “Singing Oneself or Living Deliberately: Whitman and Thoreau on Individuality and Democracy,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 53: 601–621. (Scholar)
- Raden, Audrey, 2017, When I Came to Die: Process and Prophecy
in Thoreau’s Vision of Dying, Amherst: University of
Massachusetts Press. (Scholar)
- Reid, James D., 2012, “Speaking Extravagantly: Philosophical
Territory and Eccentricity in Walden,” in Furtak,
Ellsworth, and Reid 2012, 43–67. (Scholar)
- Richardson, Robert, 1986, Henry Thoreau: A Life of the
Mind, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California
Press. (Scholar)
- Robinson, David M., 2004, Natural Life: Thoreau’s Worldly
Transcendentalism, Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
- Saito, Naoko, 2012, “Is Thoreau More Cosmopolitan than Dewey?,” Philosophy and Literature, 7: 71–85. (Scholar)
- Sattelmeyer, Robert, 1988, Thoreau’s Reading,
Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
- Sayre, Robert, 1977, Thoreau and the American Indians,
Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
- Slicer, Deborah, 2013, “Thoreau’s Evanescence,”
Philosophy and Literature, 37: 179–198. (Scholar)
- Slovic, Scott, 1992, Seeking Awareness in American Nature
Writing, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. (Scholar)
- Tauber, Alfred, 2001, Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. (Scholar)
- Taylor, Bob Pepperman, 1992, Our Limits Transgressed: Environmental Political Thought in America, Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. (Scholar)
- –––, 1994, “Henry Thoreau, Nature, and American Democracy,” Journal of Social Philosophy, 25: 46–64. (Scholar)
- Vilhauer, Benjamin, 2008, “The Theme of Time in
Thoreau’s Cape Cod,” The Concord
Saunterer, 16: 33–44. (Scholar)
- Walls, Laura Dassow, 1995, Seeing New Worlds: Henry David
Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science, Madison:
University of Wisconsin Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 2012, “Articulating a Huckleberry
Cosmos: Thoreau’s Moral Ecology of Knowledge,” in Furtak,
Ellsworth, and Reid 2012, 91–111. (Scholar)
- –––, 2017, Henry David Thoreau: A Life,
Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
- Ward, Andrew, 2007, “Ethics and Observation: Dewey, Thoreau, and Harman,” Metaphilosophy, 38: 591–611. (Scholar)
- Wilshire, Bruce, 2000, The Primal Roots of American Philosophy, University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. (Scholar)
- Wilson, Jeffrey, 2004, “Autobiography as Critique in Thoreau,” Journal of Philosophical Research, 29: 29–46. (Scholar)