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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.
Terms: Win | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum

GERGEN 122Q: The Culture of Pessimism in 19th- and 20th-Century Europe

European culture long relied on a narrative of inexorable human progress. Starting in the 19th century, this triumphalist narrative was shadowed by another tradition that rejected such trust in progress. The pessimistic tradition in Europe in literature, philosophy, the study of history, anthropology, and psychology; the distinction between pessimism in the fields of morality, culture, and intellectual life. Authors include Giacomo Leopardi, Arthur Schopenhauer, Lautréamont, T. S. Eliot, and Sigmund Freud.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors: Daub, A. (PI)

GERGEN 125: Varieties of Freedom in German Culture

For undergraduates. Changing ideas of human self-determination in works by Luther, Goethe, Kant, Kleist, Hegel, Heine, Marx, Keller, Nietzsche, Adorno, and Horkheimer. Students may read assignments in English or in German. Discussion in English.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors: Dornbach, M. (PI)

GERGEN 161: Wagnerian Echos: A Cultural History from Modernism to Popular Culture (HUMNTIES 192T, MUSIC 150G)

The afterlives of mythological themes from the operas and music dramas of Richard Wagner ( The Flying Dutchman, Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, Ring Cycle, Parsifal) in literature, modernist aesthetics, fascist politics, film, philosophy, and contemporary media.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum

GERGEN 177: Culture and Politics in Modern Germany

Germany's troubled transition to modernity in literature and theory. Themes include romanticism and an emerging national identity, pietism and the Bildungsbürgertum, the Marxian intervention, life and strife in the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich as reactionary modernism, 1968, really-existing socialism in the GDR, and unification and its discontents. The articulation of gender in shifting historical contexts. Fifth unit for reading literary texts in German.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4-5
Instructors: Kramer, K. (PI)

GERGEN 181: Philosophy and Literature (CLASSGEN 81, COMPLIT 181, ENGLISH 81, FRENGEN 181, HUMNTIES 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 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.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors: Berman, R. (PI)

GERGEN 211: Theodor W. Adorno

Adorno's work; his philosophical development from the 30s to the posthumous works of the late 60s. Focus is on his late works Negative Dialectics and Aesthetic Theory Attention to waypoints of his earlier development, such as his engagement with Heideggerian ontology, his developing thinking about Wagner, and his attitude to mass culture.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5
Instructors: Daub, A. (PI)

GERGEN 212: The Invention of Experience

Experience viewed as a source of orientation irreducible to discursive knowledge in the 19th century. The encounter with art as the paradigm of experience; lived vs. cumulative experience; the modern crisis of experience; experiential openness and the authority conferred by experience. If it is neither pleasure nor knowledge sought in art, could it be experience? Role of Goethe in the cult of experience ( Faust I, Elective Affinities). Montaigne, Hegel, Emerson, Rilke, Benjamin, Koselleck, and Gadamer.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
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.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
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