GERMAN 80N: Modern Conservatives
How do conservatives respond to the modern world? How do they find a balance between tradition and freedom, or between stability and change? This seminar will examine selections from some conservative and some classically liberal writers that address these questions. At the center of the course are thinkers who left Germany and Austria before the Second World War: Friedrich Hayek, Leo Strauss and Hannah Arendt. We will also look at earlier European writers, such Edmund Burke and Friedrich Nietzsche, as well as some recent American thinkers. Taught in English.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Berman, R. (PI)
GERMAN 116: Writing About Germany: New Topics, New Genres
For Seniors who are declared German Studies majors. How to write about various topics in German Studies for a wide public through opinion pieces or blogs. Topics based on student interests: current politics, economics, European affairs, start-ups in Germany. Intensive focus on writing. Taught in English. Meets the Writing in the Major requirement.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Berman, R. (PI)
GERMAN 124: Introduction to German Poetry
Introduction to the reading and interpretation of lyrical poetry in German from the 18th century to present. Readings include poems by Goethe, Holderlin, Brentano, Eichendorff, Heine, Rilke, Trakl, Celan, Brecht. Ways of thinking about and thinking with poetry. Attention to poetic form, voice, figural language, and the interaction of sensory registers. Taught in German.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Dornbach, M. (PI)
GERMAN 134: Freud's Vienna
An exploration of the intersections between literature, art, politics, psychoanalysis, and philosophy in turn of the century Vienna. Works by Hofmannsthal, Schnitzler, Bahr, Musil, Roth, Kraus, and Freud; shorter selections from Brentano, Herzl, Kraft-Ebbing, Loos, Mach, and Wittgenstein. Readings in German; discussion in English and German. (Replaces
GERMAN 133 for 2012/13)
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Douvaldzi, C. (PI)
GERMAN 182: War and Warfare in Germany
Survey of Germany at war through historical, theoretical and literary accounts. War in the international system and the role of technology. Religious wars, rationalization of warfare, violence and politics, terrorism. War films, such as All Quiet on the Western Front. Readings by authors such as Clausewitz, Jünger, Remarque, Schimtt, and Arendt. Taught in English.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Berman, R. (PI)
GERMAN 199: Individual Work
Repeatable for Credit. Instructor Consent Required
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-12
| Repeatable
for credit
GERMAN 222: German Literature and Thought from 1900 to the Present: Wrestling with Modernity (COMPLIT 222A, GERMAN 322)
Masters of German 20th and 21st Century literature and philosophy as they present aesthetic innovation and confront the challenges of modern technology, social alienation, manmade catastrophes, and imagine the future. Readings include Nietzsche, Freud, Rilke, Musil, Brecht, Kafka, Doeblin, Benjamin, Juenger, Arendt, Musil, Mann, Adorno, Celan, Grass, Bachmann, Bernhardt, Wolf, and Kluge. Taught in English.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Eshel, A. (PI)
GERMAN 245: German Idealist and Romantic Aesthetics
Focus on influential theories of aesthetic experience as an autonomous cultural domain that supplements science and morality. How the discovery of beauty and sublimity in nature led to an unprecedented celebration of art as the highest form of human activity. The problem of the relation between aesthetic experience and conceptual understanding. Readings by Kant, Schiller, Friedrich Schlegel, Schelling, Hegel, and more recent responses to their works. Taught in English.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Dornbach, M. (PI)
GERMAN 291A: Oedipus, Hamlet, Moses: Archetypes of the Hero (GERMAN 391A)
Texts that provided psychoanalysis with its foundational myths. Oedipus, Moses, and Hamlet as archetypes of the hero related to moments of emerging modernity: from mythos to logos, polytheism to monotheism, and action to thought. The interplay among knowledge, recognition, and desire; the role of sameness and alterity in the constitution of personal, familial, and national identities; violence and the construction of history. Readings include: Exodus, Sophocles, Euripides, Shakespeare, Freud, Cavafy; theoretical essays by Laplanche, Lacan, Certeau, Kofman, Assmann, and Cavell. Taught in English.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Douvaldzi, C. (PI)
GERMAN 298: Writing Workshop
Open only to German majors and to students working on special projects, including written reports for internships. Honors students use this number for the honors essay. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-12
| Repeatable
for credit
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