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Henry at Work
Thoreau on Making a Living
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Artikel-Nr:
9780691244693
Veröffentl:
2023
Erscheinungsdatum:
13.06.2023
Seiten:
232
Autor:
John Kaag
Gewicht:
463 g
Format:
225x152x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle
"In this book, John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle illuminate an underexplored aspect of worked-over cultural icon Henry David Thoreau and what his thinking has to tell us about the way we work now. Henry at Work overturns the popular perception of Thoreau as a navel-gazing recluse, scornful of work and other mundanities. Just the opposite, they argue, Thoreau worked hard and thought intensely about work: why we do it, what we hope to gain from it, and what it does to us. They aim to show readers not only Thoreau the writer and philosopher, but also the lesser-known Thoreau: Thoreau the worker, economist, and even the efficiency expert"