The Study On The Thoughts Of Leisure In Thoreau’s Walden

This paper focus on the depth analysis of Thoreau’s Leisure Ideology from the perspective of Leisure Studies, which takes Thoreau’s’Walden’ as the breakthrough point. Thoreau’s thought was originated from the Naturalism, the Puritanism and the Transcendentalism, and it was result from the interaction of both the thoughts which was mentioned above and the Political, economic and cultural factors of the America in the19th Century.From the concept of leisure, Thoreau belittles the alienation of labor, advocates for freedom, focus on the realization of human nature and advocates for labor and leisure to complement each other. From the practice of leisure, Thoreau achieves the mental state of abundance through weakening of materialism and Closing to nature. Finally, he realizes that the existence of him reaches a higher level.In general, Thoreau values the spirit and despises the material in both his concept of leisure and his practice in leisure. He emphasizes the spiritual care for human beings, which is a kind of leisure wisdom of’back to nature’. This wisdom embodies the subject of salvation of humanity. It not only provides inspiration for people’s leisure practice, but also promotes the course of the emergence and development of the leisure theory.