Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living

by Jonathan van Belle and John Kaag

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691244693
• ISBN13: 9780691244693
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.5"