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Provocative and illuminating essays on Thoreauâs masterwork, shedding new light on its enduring inspiration and philosophical depth. Â In 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved from his parentsâ house in Concord, Massachusetts, to a one-room cabin he built himself on the land of his mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson. He described his time there, just over two years, as an experiment in âliving deliberately.â His daily journal entries became the source material for Walden, a masterful meditation on the virtues of simplicity, self-sufficiency, and manâs relationship to nature. Â In Walden x 40, Robert B. Ray adopts Thoreauâs compositional method to explore some of the questions posed in Walden. Drawing connections to the works of poets and philosophers from Wordsworth to Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and Breton, Ray derives the inspiration for his 40 brief essays by exploring the pages of Walden in the same way Thoreau explored his own lifeâdeliberately. Â |
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