... was exemplified by Henry David Thoreau and his writings, particularly his work as a social philosopher in the 1840s and 1850s. Thoreau was a genuine social deviant, disenchanted by the growing industrial machine of commerce and its constructions. He believed that the typical American was not the individualist, but rather the conformist. He completely rejected this developing consumerist society, instead spending much of his lifetime outdoors in nature ... any time what I think right a corporation has no conscience" (Thoreau, qtd. in Parker and Krupat 1793). Thoreau also emphasizes the r...

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