W27W Thoreau's Walden

Reading, Discussion | This course is completed

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1/13/2021-3/17/2021

9:30 AM-11:00 AM EDT on Wed

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[NEW COURSE] To discover how to earn and spend our most wakeful hours is the task of Walden. We will read and discuss this book and place it in the context of his life and of his connections to other writers such as Emerson.

Discussion, Lecture, Reading

  • This course will be recorded for later viewing.
  • Required Text: Walden by Henry David Thoreau, ISBN 9781593082086

Tom Low is neither a professional philosopher nor an academic but has been a serious reader since his teens. He has led courses at Osher on figures as diverse as Plato, Montaigne, Thoreau, William James, Marcus Aurelius, and the great economists.