Thoreau's WaldenのParadoxの意味するもの

Paradoxical expression is the dominant stylistic feature of Walden. And his paradoxical expression is stylistically integral to his poetic, dialectical thought in recognizing what "appears to be" rather than what "is". Analytically speaking, his value judgement is to his manly, able character what his factual, arithmetic judgement is to his womanly, childish character. These opposite characters are combined beautifully in his protestant individualism which, to adopt Emerson's estimate, is thus expressed as "there was a wonderful fitness of body and mind". To emphasize only one side of his mixed charcters is equal to misunderstand him, because he was an individual with a code of his, and he was absorbed by the desire of putting much of himself into hinlself before he crystallized utterly. Thus not only he was the symbol of man himself, but was well versed in the worth of the imagination, so he liked to throw every thought into his own symbol. His symbol is different from the intrinsic allegorizing of Natur which Emersonian theory stressed, also different from the scientific quantative method which the so-called scientists stress nowadays. His way of thinking is to enlarge the world of meaning, cOlnpletely different from the literal concrete world, so he can well foretell the miserable destiny of man deprived of all beautiful endowments in this 20th century chaotic world.Article信州大学教養部紀要. 第一部, 人文科学 2: 99-116(1967)departmental bulletin pape