PHIL 846 Major Figures II
PHIL846
Graduate Level Course
Fall
3 Units
In-person
3
- None.
None
one-way Exclusions
- Seminars
- We shall concentrate on two books that were published during Thoreau鈥檚 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 鈥淐ivil Disobedience鈥 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.
Instructor: Paul Fairfield
Topic: Henry David Thoreau
This seminar examines some of the main philosophical writings of the great nineteenth-century American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862.
Assessments
Assessments
Students鈥 grades for the course will be based on one paper, a seminar presentation or two, and participation.