PHIL 846
Major Figures II
Fall · PHIL 846 Major Figures II
Topics
- PHIL 846 Major Figures II
Readings
- We shall concentrate on two books that were published during Thoreau’s lifetime, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) and Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854). We shall also read his classic essay “Civil Disobedience” and perhaps a few other works from The Portable Thoreau, which will be the text for the course.; Among the main themes we shall discuss are transcendentalism, natural philosophy, mysticism, anarchism, and civil disobedience.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Official departmental HTML course page ↗Fall
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