Henry David Thoreau and the Necessity of Conviction 

For generations, Henry David Thoreau has been a model of how to live according to one's deepest convictions. His writing inspired Gandhi's doctrine of passive resistance, and his experiment in living a simple existence at Walden remains a touchstone for the environmental movement. Thoreau was an immensely complex man, however, and now we have a modern biography adequate to his thought and his art, Laura Dassow Walls' Henry David Thoreau: A Life. Perhaps the leading scholar today on Thoreau, Walls puts her subject at the intersections of science and philosophy in nineteenth-century America.
This program is presented in partnership with the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of Chicago and The Newberry Library.
See upcoming CHF events: chicagohumanities.org
Help us subtitle and translate our videos: chf.to/SubtitleCHF
Subscribe for more thought-provoking videos: chf.to/SubscribeCHF
Support CHF with a donation: chf.to/Support-CHF
Follow CHF on Twitter: Chi_Humanities
Like CHF on Facebook: chicagohumanities
Subscribe to the CHF podcast on iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/chicago-humanities-festival/id303222991
Help us caption & translate this video!
amara.org/v/cxNN/