John Kaag on Walden: Why Thoreau Went to the Woods in 1845

More John Kaag on Walden, six more films and hours of audio, all available now: https://rebindclassics.com/yt/walden Instructions for the one life you get: John Kaag opens Henry David Thoreau's Walden, the book he has spent his life arguing with, and asks what living deliberately means on an ordinary Tuesday. Part 1 of 7 films with John Kaag on Walden. This first film is the introduction to the series. Kaag on why Thoreau went to the pond, why he left, and why the book is not the retreat manual people take it for. A philosopher who has walked Thoreau's ground for years, on the American book people quote most and finish least. 0:00 Meet John Kaag 0:42 What rebinding a book means 1:27 A Latin teacher, a pond, a decision at fourteen 3:36 Who Thoreau was: Concord, 1817 4:27 The panic of 1837 and the mills 5:28 Emerson and Transcendentalism 6:58 July 4, 1845: the experiment begins 7:46 Necessaries versus the rest 8:46 Two thousand copies, then millions 9:32 How to read along John Kaag is a philosopher and the author of American Philosophy: A Love Story and Hiking with Nietzsche. Walden (1854) is Thoreau's account of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin beside Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. Rebind Classics is a library of great books read in company. For every book, we ask a reader who has lived with it for years, a novelist, a scholar, a philosopher, to talk you through it, start to finish: hours of recorded conversation, essays, and films like this one. The films on this channel open each series. Members get the rest. The library is open now. Membership gets you the full series and the whole shelf, today: https://rebindclassics.com/yt Instagram:   / rebindclassics   Questions or press: support@rebindclassics.com. We read everything. Made by Rebind Publishing. Everything we publish is made by people and credited to them. #Walden #Thoreau #RebindClassics