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By Paul Friedrich

Looks on the connections among Thoreau’s Walden and the paintings that encouraged it, the Bhagavad-Gita.

This publication explores and translates the myriad connections among non secular classics, Henry David Thoreau’s Walden and the Bhagavad-Gita. proof indicates that Thoreau took the Gita with him whilst he moved to Walden Pond, and the books have a lot in universal, referring to final moral and metaphysical questions. Paul Friedrich seems at how every one paintings speaks to basic difficulties of excellent and evil, self and cosmos, accountability and fervour, fact and phantasm, political engagement and philosophical meditation, sensuous wildness and ascetic devotion. His exam strikes via a number of levels, from an research of key symbols, similar to the upside-down tree, to an exposition of social, moral, and metaphysical values, to a attention of the numerous resources of those syncretic works. This booklet might be of vigorous curiosity to these fascinated about the origins of Indian and American idea, activism, and poetry.

“By getting to the complexity and sweetness of Thoreau’s argument … and examining via it to a blinding array of assets that comes with the Gita, Friedrich not just illuminates the 2 books into consideration but in addition sheds a few gentle for writers and others engaged in trying to envision a social fact that isn't permeated by way of violence.” — visible Artists Collective

“This is the main finished learn to this point of Henry David Thoreau’s vintage in terms of Hindu scripture.” — CHOICE

“Friedrich frames his learn round the use of metaphors, beliefs of behavior, rules of purity, and personality-based rules of advantage. greater than a publication approximately books, it's also approximately cultures and authors.” — Lalita Pandit, coeditor of Literary India: Comparative reviews in Aesthetics, Colonialism, and Culture

Paul Friedrich is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and within the Committee on Social suggestion on the college of Chicago. he's the writer of numerous books, together with From Root to Flower and song in Russian Poetry.

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