Walking Away with Thoreau: The Pleasures and Risks of Exit

Event End: February 10, 2015 12:00 AM

Event Location: The Lane Room (Ellison 3824)

In the political theory literature on Thoreau there are two focal points of analysis: the first focuses on resistance and civil disobedience, while the second concentrates on withdrawal. The theoretical intersection between these concepts has received comparatively less attention. Addressing this need, this article reads Thoreau for the connections between resistance and exit—for “resistant exit”—in order to better understand this kind of opposition.