Description: The study deals with human community and its relation with the individual. It takes recourse to the notions of friendship, moral respect and solidarity which allow for the extension of the notion of community above the limitations of the human sphere and takes up Thoreau's work as early and prophetic diagnosis of the modern crisis of relationships.
Review Quotes: A book like this deserves to be lauded in many voices [...].
(Mark S. Burrows, Polish Journal for American Studies 10/2016)