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GERGEN 104N: Resistance Writings in Nazi Germany

Preference to sophomores. The letters and diaries of individuals who resisted Nazi oppression and paid with their lives. Readings include the Scholl diaries, Bonhoeffer¿s letters and his Ethics, and letter exchanges from other crucial figures. No knowledge of German required; students may read texts in original if able.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum

GERGEN 170Q: Prussia: Culture and Literature

This course traces the history and culture of a country that disappeared not too long ago, but about which most of us tent to know very little. On February 27, 1947, the Allied Control Council issues it's decree no. 46, which dissolved Prussia "in the interest of maintaining world peace and security" and "the restoration of political life in Germany on a democratic basis." Prussia, the Council continued, "has since forever been a carrier of militarism and reaction in Germany." Many of the stereotypical images of Germany and German-ness, and certainly most negative images of Germany, from the spiked helmet to the iron cross, the Red Baron and the Blitzkrieg, are bound up with Prussia, its military and its ruling class. Prussia's militaristic culture not only brought on a series of increasingly brutal wars, while also often being a beacon of Enlightenment and religious tolerance; it brought together Germany's most traditional backwater with its most progressive metropolis. This course will focus on its flourishing cultural life, its novelists, painters, architects, composers, philosophers, economists, satirists, military and political theorists. In tracing the kingdom's history and its culture, we will draw on a number of texts ranging from the 1750s to the early 1920s. As this course fulfills the WRITE 2 requirement, we will also explore different ways to reflect on these texts in writing, to draw together and present information, and how to critique and revise presentations. All readings and writing will be in English. (WR-2)
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: Writing 2
Instructors: Daub, A. (PI)

GERGEN 181: Philosophy and Literature (CLASSGEN 81, COMPLIT 181, ENGLISH 81, FRENGEN 181, ITALGEN 181, PHIL 81, SLAVGEN 181)

Required gateway course for Philosophical and Literary Thought; crosslisted in departments sponsoring the Philosophy and Literature track: majors should register in their home department; non-majors may register in any sponsoring department. Introduction to major problems at the intersection of philosophy and literature. Issues may include authorship, selfhood, truth and fiction, the importance of literary form to philosophical works, and the ethical significance of literary works. Texts include philosophical analyses of literature, works of imaginative literature, and works of both philosophical and literary significance. Authors may include Plato, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Borges, Beckett, Barthes, Foucault, Nussbaum, Walton, Nehamas, Pavel, and Pippin.
Terms: Win | Units: 4-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II

GERGEN 200: The Arcades Project

When Walter Benjamin committed suicide while fleeing from the Nazis in 1940, he left behind a large corpus of unpublished writing, perhaps none more famous than the immense collection of notes, fragments, and drafts that are collectively known as the "Arcades Project," which Benjamin entrusted to his friend Georges Bataille when forced to flee Paris. The "Arcades Project" undertakes nothing short of an archaeology of the nineteenth century, combining literary scholarship, sociology, Marxism, mysticism, a theory of signification and a philosophy of history. This course considers this projects in its totality, drawing on some of Benjamin's writings of the same period, and tracing some common readings and misreadings of the Project's staggering material. All readings and class discussions in English.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-5
Instructors: Daub, A. (PI)

GERGEN 201: Conservative Revolution (COMPLIT 234)

An examination of conservative critiques of modernity in the early 20th century, including topics such as German nationalism, the war experience, responses to democracy, anti-liberalism, cultural pessimism in the decline of the West, crises of authority, technology, geopolitics, existentialism, and tradition. Readings from authors such as Oswald Spengler, Thomas Mann, Carl Schmitt, Ernst Jünger, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Rudolf Borchardt, Karl Haushofer, Konrad Weiss. Readings in either English or German.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum

GERGEN 210: Nietzsche's Beginnings

The emergence of Nietzsche's main concerns from his influential critique of modern culture and his reinterpretation of Greek antiquity. Pessimism and affirmation, truth and illusion, art and science, scholarship and its limits, decadence and historicism. Focus on The Birth of Tragedy and the Untimely Meditations. In English
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5
Instructors: Dornbach, M. (PI)

GERGEN 221: Memory in the Modernist Novel

Preference to freshmen. The art of memory as one of the main characteristics of modernity. The relationship between memory and modernism through major narrative texts: Rainer Maria Rilke's The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigger; James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; and Marcel Proust's Combray.. How memory is represented in the novels, and its role in the perception of external reality. How memory helps to constitute personal identity. The metaphors used to define memory. Readings include theoretical and critical essays, and primary texts.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum

GERGEN 221A: Modernism and the Jewish Voice in Europe (COMPLIT 247, SLAVGEN 221)

Some of the most haunting literary voices of the 20th century emerged from the Jewish communities of Eastern and Central Europe. The Jewishness of the modernists is thematized, asking whether it contributed to shared attitudes toward text, history, or identity. Their works are situated in specific linguistic traditions: Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian, Polish, or German. Primary readings from Ansky, Bialik, Mandelstam, Babel, Schulz, Kafka, Celan; secondary readings in history, E. European literature, and theory, including Marx, Freud, Benjamin, and Arendt.
Last offered: Spring 2010 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum

GERGEN 235: Survival and the Biopolitics of Bare Life

Michel Foucault¿s concept of biopolitics refers to a modern form of political reign that drags corporeity, biological processes of life and the natural foundations of society into its control zone. Recently, Giorgio Agamben has tried to use Foucault¿s concept of biopolitics for the benefit of the analysis of phenomenons of the present. He sees the crucial turn towards biopolitics rather in the constitution of forms of survival than in the politicization of life. His works contribute essentially to the upward trend of the concept of survival, which ¿ under the sign of international terrorism, ecological crisis or the intensifying struggle for resources ¿ seems to become an approach more and more influential for the interpretation of the present. In this seminar, classic texts concerning the history and topicality of the relation between biopower and survival shall be read and discussed, amongst them texts by Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Bruno Bettelheim, Cathy Caruth, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, Lawrence Langer, Jay Robert Lifton, Terrence DesPres and others.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5

GERGEN 255: German Expressionism and its Critics (ARTHIST 455)

In the first decades of the 20th century, the art of German Expressionism has been subject of severe critical controversies and could be regarded as 'international', 'German' or 'degenerate' art; a perfect mirror of the changing political/cultural tendencies of Germany. The seminar will be based on a choice of critical texts from ca. 1910-1949.
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