Thoreau philosophe et poète américain penseur de la liberté

INTRODUCTION

I. UN RAPPORT AMBIGU AU TERRITOIRE                        
a) À la marge...            
b) … Mais pas en dehors    
    
II. LE TRAVAIL DES MAINS ET LE TRAVAIL DE LA LANGUE : LA CULTURE DE L'AMBIGUÏTÉ            
a) Construire sa cabane        
b) Labourer la terre        
c) Labourer la langue            

III. CRISE IDENTITAIRE : LA NATURE COMME ANTIDOTE        

IV. CRISE POLITIQUE : DE LA RÉSISTANCE À LA DÉSOBÉISSANCE        
a) Première phase : le désengagement politique                       
b) Deuxième phase : la révolte    
c) « Des lois plus élevées » : le transcendantalisme     
        
CONCLUSION  

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INTRODUCTION

I. AN AMBIGUOUS RELATIONSHIP TO THE TERRITORY
a) In the margin....
b)... But not outside

II. HAND WORK AND LANGUAGE WORK: THE CULTURE OF AMBIGUITY
a) Build your cabin
b) Tilling the soil
c) Tilling the language

III. IDENTITY CRISIS: NATURE AS AN ANTIDOTE

IV. POLITICAL CRISIS: FROM RESISTANCE TO DISOBEDIENCE
a) First phase: political disengagement
b) Second phase: the revolt
c) "Higher laws": transcendentalism

CONCLUSION

"I like to have a good margin in my life. This formula by Thoreau perfectly reflects the lifestyle he tried to implement. It is by being on the edge, on the periphery, that the one who is considered as the father of American intellectual independence is present in the world and on the other. This eccentric ex-centric recounts in Walden his two-year stay in the woods near Concord, Massachusetts. "By accident", this stay began on July 4 (from the year 1845). But it is not a question of replaying a founding political event on the individual scene. And for good reason, the American revolution did not really take place.... At the root of this protest experience is disappointment (Thoreau deplores the fact that his fellow citizens are content with "ready to think") and revolt (we must rebel against this America that does not offer the conditions for moral, economic and political freedom). For Thoreau, the solution is neither social nor political, but individual. It is necessary to find one's own way (to clear one's way), which will amount to finding one's own voice (through writing).