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GERGEN 38A: Introduction to Germanic Languages (GERLIT 138)

The oldest attested stages of the Germanic language family, including Gothic, Old Norse, Old Saxon, Old English, Old Frisian, Old Low Franconian (Old Dutch), and Old High German. The linguistic interrelationships, prehistory, Germanic tribal groupings, and literature.
Terms: Win | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors: Robinson, O. (PI)

GERGEN 61Q: Culture and Conflict in Contemporary Europe (COMPLIT 61Q)

Preference to sophomores. Transformation of European culture and identity in the wake of the Cold War, European unification, and the post 9/11 environment. Pressures on transatlantic relationships; anti-Americanism; tensions around national cultural identity due to regional integration and globalization; immigration and the European experience of multiculturalism; and flashpoints of conflict concerning religion, secularization, and antisemitism.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5
Instructors: Berman, R. (PI)

GERGEN 129: German Cinema (GERGEN 229)

History of German cinema in the Weimar Republic, Nazi era, and the immediate aftermath of WWII. German thought, political valences, and social potential as portrayed in film.
Terms: Win | Units: 5
Instructors: Daub, A. (PI)

GERGEN 144: Germanic Theologies (GERGEN 244)

Thinkers from Martin Luther to Martin Buber who have transformed western notions about God. Contributions from philosophers, poets, and theologians on the role of the Bible, the meaning of revelation, and the status of human beings in the Universe. Readings from Luther, Hamann, Schleiermacher, Nietzsche, Kafka, and Rosenzweig.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors: Pourciau, S. (PI)

GERGEN 148: A Brief History of Misogyny (GERGEN 248)

Genealogy of philosophical misogyny in 19th- and 20th-century German thought from German idealism. Authors include Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Weininger, and the George circle. In English.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender
Instructors: Daub, A. (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 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II

GERGEN 212: The Invention of Experience (GERGEN 312)

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 229: German Cinema (GERGEN 129)

History of German cinema in the Weimar Republic, Nazi era, and the immediate aftermath of WWII. German thought, political valences, and social potential as portrayed in film.
Terms: Win | Units: 5
Instructors: Daub, A. (PI)

GERGEN 230: Truth in Art

Does art disclose an ultimate truth or does it help people avoid, endure, or affirm a truth which would otherwise be hard to bear? How modern thinking about art is defined by the tension between the idea that pleasure in art is disinterested and outside striving for true knowledge or ethical orientation and the idea that art offers some kind of deeper insight into people's place in the world. How these tensions play out in Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Adorno. In English.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5
Instructors: Dornbach, M. (PI)

GERGEN 243D: Weber, Schmitt, Arendt (COMPLIT 243D)

Accounts of political power and cultural values in the context of crisis. Rethinking community and sovereignty between WW I and the Nazi era; the post-WWII legacy. Enlightenment legacy and existential philosophy as frameworks for discourses on executive authority, democracy, decisionism, the state of exception, and totalitarianism. Readings in English include selections from Weber's political writings, Schmitt (Nomos and other texts), and Arendt (including her Origins of Totalitarianism).
Terms: Win | Units: 3-5
Instructors: Berman, R. (PI)
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