论公民的不服从（梭罗和汉娜阿伦特） On Civil Disobedience

基本信息

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Library Of America (10 Sept. 2024)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 175 pages

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1598537918

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.22 x 1.02 x 19.02 cm

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

两位文学史上伟大的思想家首次汇集了关于如何以及何时不服从政府的经典文章

在我们努力应对新出现的民主威胁时，美国图书馆首次汇集了两篇关于公民义务和良心要求的开创性文章。

在《反抗政府》（1849 年）中，亨利·戴维·梭罗讲述了他因拒绝缴纳人头税而在监狱度过的一夜，他认为这笔税款支持了美墨战争和奴隶制的扩张。他的更大目标是表达个人良心是美国政治的一股力量。没有一位作家比她更有说服力地主张服从“更高的法律”。

在《公民不服从》（1970 年）中，汉娜·阿伦特对梭罗进行了严厉的反驳。对阿伦特来说，梭罗故意反对定义公民不服从的公众和集体精神。只有通过积极的集体行动和我们在公民社会中相互做出的承诺，才能实现有意义的改变。

这本豪华平装书的序言由汉娜·阿伦特政治与人文中心创始人兼学术主任、巴德学院政治、哲学和人权教授罗杰·伯科维茨撰写，他反思了公民抗命的传统和美国政治的未来。

Together for the first time, classic essays on how and when to disobey the government from two of the greatest thinkers in our literature

As we grapple with how to respond to emerging threats against democracy, Library of America brings together for the first time two seminal essays about the duties of citizenship and the imperatives of conscience.

In “Resistance to Civil Government” (1849), Henry David Thoreau recounts the story of a night he spent in jail for refusing to pay poll taxes, which he believed supported the Mexican American War and the expansion of slavery. His larger aim was to articulate a view of individual conscience as a force in American politics. No writer has made a more persuasive case for obedience to a “higher law.”

In “Civil Disobedience” (1970), Hannah Arendt offers a stern rebuttal to Thoreau. For Arendt, Thoreau stands in willful opposition to the public and collective spirit that defines civil disobedience. Only through positive collective action and the promises we make to each other in a civil society can meaningful change occur.

This deluxe paperback features an introduction by Roger Berkowitz, Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and Professor of Politics, Philosophy, and Human Rights at Bard College, who reflects on the tradition of civil disobedience and the future of American politics.

作者简介

亨利·大卫·梭罗 1817 年出生于马萨诸塞州康科德。1837 年，他从哈佛大学毕业，同年开始撰写终生日记。梭罗住在瓦尔登湖期间，创作了两本生前出版的书：《瓦尔登湖》（1854 年）和《康科德河和梅里马克河上的一周》（1849 年）。他的其他几部作品，包括《缅因森林、科德角》和《远足》，都是在他死后出版的。1862 年，梭罗在康科德去世，享年 44 岁。

汉娜·阿伦特 (1906-1975) 是二十世纪重要的政治哲学家之一，著有《极权主义的起源》、《人的条件》、《艾希曼在耶路撒冷》、《论革命》和死后出版的《心灵生活》。她对现代美国和欧洲政治以及政治思想史的评论被收录在《理解论文集》、《无栏杆思考》和《责任与判断》中。

ROGER BERKOWITZ 是汉娜·阿伦特中心的创始人和学术主任，也是巴德学院的政治、哲学和人权教授。他是《科学的礼物：莱布尼茨和现代法律传统》一书的作者，也是《黑暗时代的思考：汉娜·阿伦特论伦理与政治》一书的联合编辑。

HENRY DAVID THOREAU was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817. He graduated from Harvard in 1837, the same year he began his lifelong Journal. While living at Walden Pond, Thoreau worked on the two books published during his lifetime: Walden (1854) and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849). Several of his other works, including The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, and Excursions, were published posthumously. Thoreau died in Concord, at the age of forty-four, in 1862.

HANNAH ARENDT (1906-1975) was one of the foremost political philosophers of the twentieth century, the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, Eichmann in Jerusalem, On Revolution, and the posthumously published The Life of the Mind. Her commentaries on modern American and European politics and on the history of political thought were collected in Essays in Understanding, Thinking Without a Banister, and Responsibility and Judgment.

ROGER BERKOWITZ is Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center and Professor of Politics, Philosophy, and Human Rights at Bard College. He is the author of The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition and co-editor of Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics.