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HUMNTIES 191R: What is Life? The History of a Question (HISTORY 242A, HISTORY 342A)

History of attempts to understand the nature of life and mind by comparing living creatures with artificial machines and material arrangements. Imitations of animal life and human thought and discussions of relations between creatures and contraptions from antiquity onward, with an eye toward providing historical depth to current attempts to simulate life and mind.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI

HUMNTIES 197F: Tolstoy's Anna Karenina in Dialogue with Contemporary Philosophical, Social, and Ethical Thought (SLAVGEN 190, SLAVGEN 290)

Themes: institutions of the family and gender; debate about the female body, church, and religion; the decline of privilege and the rise of capital and industry; the meaning of art and the artist; conflicts of law and custom, country and city, andnationalism and cosmopolitanism; and the ascetic rejection of the world. Authors include Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Weber, and Freud.
Last offered: Spring 2009 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI

HUMNTIES 321: Classical Seminar: Rethinking Classics

Literary and philosophical texts from Antiquity (including Homer, the Greek tragedians, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, and Augustine). In each case, we will examine the cultural contexts in which each text was composed (e.g. political regimes and ideologies; attitudes towards gender and sexuality; hierarchies of class and status; discourses on "barbarians" and resident aliens). We will study various theoretical approaches to these books in an effort to "rethink" these texts in the 21st century.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4-5

HUMNTIES 324: Enlightenment Seminar (HISTORY 234, HISTORY 334, HISTORY 432A)

The Enlightenment as a philosophical, literary, and political movement. Themes include the nature and limits of philosophy, the grounds for critical intellectual engagement, the institution of society and the public, and freedom, equality and human progress. Authors include Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Hume, Diderot, and Condorcet.
Terms: Win | Units: 4-5
Instructors: Baker, K. (PI)

HUMNTIES 175: BELIEF-UNBEL

HUMNTIES 322: Medieval Seminar: Classics and Key Works (HISTORY 317)

Colloquium focused on key primary sources that allow entry into Medieval European culture. Readings include: Augustine, On Christian Doctrine; Gregory the Great, Moralia on the Book of Job; Beowulf; the Song of Roland; and Aquinas, Summa Theologica.

HUMNTIES 323: Renaissance/Early Modern Seminar (ILAC 323)

Focus is on how authors and readers from this period theorize various historical processes: the rise of European imperialism; religious conflicts and revolutions; new understandings of the self and the world; and the rise of the novel. Authors: Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Núñez Muley, Martorell, Rabelais, Camões, Cervantes, Montaigne, and Shakespeare.

HUMNTIES 325: Modern Seminar

Modern anxieties about the place of human concerns within a disenchanted natural world, focusing on texts of philosophy, social theory, and imaginative literature. Cultural and psychological consequences of perceived decline in and threats to religious faith. Authors may include Schiller, Schopenhauer, Coleridge, Kierkegaard, Marx, Baudelaire, Darwin, Nietzsche, Weber, Eliot, Woolf, Sartre, and Camus.
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