„A DOLGOK LÉNYEGÉBŐL FOLYIK” – A WALDEN DERRIDAI TITKAI
"IT FLOWS FROM THE ESSENCE OF THINGS" – THE DERRIDEAN SECRETS OF WALDEN

Summary/Abstract: In this study, I offer a Derridean reading of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, emphasising the role of secrecy and nonresponse in democratic responsibility. I argue that Thoreau’s text operates not as factual autobiography but as a poetic and philosophical exploration of the structurally unknowable. By invoking Derrida’s concept of the “absolute secret,” the study reframes Walden as a critique of sovereignty and a call for an ethics grounded in alterity. Ultimately, in my study, I position Walden as a vision of a democracy-to-come shaped by poetic thought and radical openness to the Other.

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