Walden Contemporaneous

by Norman Weeks

Overview

Our United States. Economic powerhouse with the highest general standard of living, leader in technological innovation, purveyor of culture to the world, dominant political and military power.

And our American people? Discontented, frazzled, disfunctional in the family, economically insecure, cynical, disgusted with politics, and, despite conspicuous conventional religiosity, suffering a moral and spiritual privation.

Living in the country with the best and the most, why aren't we happy? The problem is one of values.

A diagnosis of our ills and a prescription for happiness and fulfillment are at hand, in our own American heritage. A book out of the 1840s and 1850s, Henry David Thoreau's WALDEN may have more to offer to the America of today than it did to its own time.

In WALDEN CONTEMPORANEOUS, Norman Weeks applies the values expressed in WALDEN to our current society and presents some experiential verification of Thoreau's prescriptions for successful living.

Psychology, sociology, culture, economics, politics, religion:--All are subjected to comprehensive evaluation based upon Thoreau's principles and values.

More good sense came out of one man in that little cabin on Walden Pond than we have received from our glib editorialists and multi-staffed think tanks.

WALDEN is relevant. WALDEN is CONTEMPORANEOUS.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014419765
Publisher:	Norman Weeks
Publication date:	05/12/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	193 KB

About the Author

Born and raised in Chicago, Norman Weeks studied in Rome, earned his degree in history, then settled in to a Roman residence. With Rome as a base, he traveled in fifteen European countries, including those of the old Soviet bloc when still mostly closed to outsiders. His interest in ancient cultures led him on archaeological itineraries throughout the Mediterranean.

Back in the Americas, he served two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Brazil, then ventured into Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. He has guided wilderness excursions into the Minnesota-Ontario Boundary Waters.

In Asia, he immersed himself in the Buddhist cultures of Thailand, India, and Nepal.

Norman Weeks is an experiential writer. He writes about living in Nature and within a culture.

Of the former, NATURE NORM'S NORTH WOODS relates his experiences in the woods-and-waters of the northland, while TROPICAL ECSTASY explores the Amazon and the Northeast of Brazil.

Of culture, he enters into one of the oldest civilizations in TWO WEEKS IN ETERNAL EGYPT. Culture-versus-Nature is a principal theme of WALDEN CONTEMPORANEOUS.

ROMAN RUMINATIONS presents "the psychology of the human as an enculturated animal". Its three volumes are LONELINESS, INSTINCT, and LOVE.

Throughout his various writings, Norman Weeks expresses a cosmopolitan appreciation of our world.