£115.00

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£115 today · previous high £115 · all-time low £112

Routledge The Spirit of Disobedience: Resisting the Charms of Fake Politics, Mindless Consumption, and the Culture of Total Work

Amazon

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 90 days · 90 data points

Historical
Generating forecast…
£115.00 £111.96 £112.63 £113.29 £113.95 £114.61 £115.28 31 July 2026 22 August 2026 13 September 2026 05 October 2026 28 October 2026
View at Amazon ↗

Price data checked 1 day ago

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↑ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey
↑ Forecast
where the price is heading next
↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range
↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 90 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price
Current Price
42 days 48 days · current 0 12 24 36 48 £113 £115 Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £115 (48 days, 53.3%)

Price range: £113 - £115

Price levels: 2 different prices over 90 days

Description

Trained relentlessly to work and consume, we make daily lifestyle decisions that promote corporate profits more than our own well-being. We also find ourselves working more, living in fragmented communities, and neglecting our most basic spiritual and political values. As Curtis White puts it, “In order to live, you will be asked to do what is no good, what is absurd, trivial, demeaning, and soul killing.” Although we belong to the world’s most affluent society, somehow we never have the chance to ask: How shall we live? With his trademark humor and acerbic wit, White raises this impertinent question. He also debunks the conventional view that liberalism can answer it without drawing on spiritual values. Surveying American popular culture (including Office Space and The Da Vinci Code) to illustrate his points, White urges us to renew our commitment to “human fundamentals” as articulated by Henry David Thoreau-especially free time, home, and food-and to reclaim Thoreau’s spirit of disobedience. Seeking imaginative answers to his central questions, White also interviews John De Graaf (Affluenza), James Howard Kunstler (The Long Emergency) and Michael Ableman (Fields of Plenty) about their views of the good life in our time.

Product Specifications

Format
hardcover
Domain
Amazon UK
Release Date
01 December 2006
Listed Since
30 December 2006

Barcode

No barcode data available

Similar Products You Might Like

The Days of Henry Thoreau: A Biography: 2039 (Princeton Legacy Library)
95% match

The Days of Henry Thoreau: A Biography: 2039 (Princeton Legacy Library)

Princeton University Press

£55.00 18 Sep 2026
The Correspondence of Henry D. Thoreau: Volume 2: 1849-1856: 28 (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau)
95% match

The Correspondence of Henry D. Thoreau: Volume 2: 1849-1856: 28 (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau)

Princeton University Press

£82.00 28 Oct 2026
The Correspondence of Henry D. Thoreau: Volume 1: 1834 - 1848: 24 (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau)
95% match

The Correspondence of Henry D. Thoreau: Volume 1: 1834 - 1848: 24 (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau)

Princeton University Press

£82.38 12 Sep 2026
Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau
94% match

Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau

Harvard University Press

£56.29 04 Sep 2026
Henry David Thoreau in Context (Literature in Context)
94% match

Henry David Thoreau in Context (Literature in Context)

Cambridge University Press

£98.07 24 Sep 2026
Thoreau at 200: Essays and Reassessments
94% match

Thoreau at 200: Essays and Reassessments

Cambridge University Press

£97.01 10 Oct 2026
Useful Objects: Museums, Science, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America
94% match

Useful Objects: Museums, Science, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America

Oxford University Press

£76.39 18 Sep 2026
Requiem for Modern Politics - Routledge Philosophy Book
94% match

Requiem for Modern Politics - Routledge Philosophy Book

Routledge

£145.45 18 Oct 2026
The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871: 1843-1854 v. 1
94% match

The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871: 1843-1854 v. 1

University of Georgia Press

£41.71 23 Sep 2026
The Passionate Mind: Sources of Destruction and Creativity
94% match

The Passionate Mind: Sources of Destruction and Creativity

Routledge

£149.99 14 Oct 2026
Political and Legal Obligation
94% match

Political and Legal Obligation

Routledge

£50.99 09 Sep 2026
Disobedience: Concept and Practice
94% match

Disobedience: Concept and Practice

Routledge

£48.99 07 Oct 2026
The Passionate Mind: Sources of Destruction and Creativity
94% match

The Passionate Mind: Sources of Destruction and Creativity

Routledge

£48.98 05 Oct 2026
Political and Legal Obligation
94% match

Political and Legal Obligation

Routledge

£152.33 07 Oct 2026
Thoreau's Reading: A Study in Intellectual History with Bibliographical Catalogue (Princeton Legacy Library)
94% match

Thoreau's Reading: A Study in Intellectual History with Bibliographical Catalogue (Princeton Legacy Library)

Princeton University Press

£41.50 03 Oct 2026
The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
94% match

The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

Cambridge University Press

£79.00 24 Oct 2026
The Machine Will Never Triumph: A Lawrencian Critique of Technology
94% match

The Machine Will Never Triumph: A Lawrencian Critique of Technology

Majosta

£57.05 28 Oct 2026
Autobiography and Natural Science in the Age of Romanticism: Rousseau, Goethe, Thoreau
94% match

Autobiography and Natural Science in the Age of Romanticism: Rousseau, Goethe, Thoreau

Routledge

£55.93 05 Oct 2026
Autobiography and Natural Science in the Age of Romanticism
94% match

Autobiography and Natural Science in the Age of Romanticism

Routledge

£151.26 05 Oct 2026
Right to Resist, The: Philosophies of Dissent
93% match

Right to Resist, The: Philosophies of Dissent

Bloomsbury

£76.43 23 Sep 2026
Princeton University Press - The Illustrated Walden with Photos
93% match

Princeton University Press - The Illustrated Walden with Photos

Princeton University Press

£132.00 09 Oct 2026
The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Cape Cod (Henry David Thoreau Works)
93% match

The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Cape Cod (Henry David Thoreau Works)

Princeton University Press

£82.00 19 Sep 2026
Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism (New Cambridge Studies in Religion and Critical Thought)
93% match

Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism (New Cambridge Studies in Religion and Critical Thought)

Cambridge University Press

£83.00 24 Oct 2026
The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Translations.
93% match

The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Translations.

Princeton University Press

£77.00 27 Sep 2026