printer friendly pageRELIGST 278: Heidegger: Confronting the Ultimate (RELIGST 378)
Heidegger's work on meaning, the self, and the sacred. Texts include
Being and Time, courses and opuscula up to 1933, the
Letter on Humanism, and
Contributions of Philosophy.
Terms: not given this year, last offered Winter 2010
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Units: 3-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
RELIGST 279A: Heidegger on human being and God (RELIGST 379A)
This lecture-seminar first raises the question of essential characteristics of human being, such as temporality, mortality, hermeneutics and the relation to meaning, and then, via readings from Karl Rahner, asks whether human being is open to a possible relation to a supernatural divinity.
Terms: not given this year, last offered Spring 2012
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Units: 4
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
RELIGST 280: Schleiermacher: Reconstructing Religion (RELIGST 380)
Idealist philosopher, Moravian pietist, early German Romantic, co-founder of the University of Berlin, head preacher at Trinity Church, translator of Plato's works, Hegel's opponent, pioneer in modern hermeneutics, father of modern theology. Schleiermacher's controversial reconception of religion and theology in its philosophical context.
Terms: not given this year, last offered Autumn 2010
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Units: 3-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
RELIGST 283A: Modern Notions of 'The Holy': Hölderlin, Heidegger, Celan (COMPLIT 283A, COMPLIT 383A, GERMAN 283A, GERMAN 383A, RELIGST 383A)
This course explores the question, "What may we call 'holy' in the modern era?" by focusing mostly on three key writers and thinkers, who "in various ways, and in different times" raised this question: Friedrich Hölderlin, Martin Heidegger, and Paul Celan. Given the scope of this question and its various reverberations and implications, we will also read "continental philosophy of religion" (Marion, Courtine, Caputo, and Vattimo, among others), as well as some of the work of Jacques Derrida.
Terms: Win
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Units: 3-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Eshel, A. (PI)
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Sheehan, T. (PI)
RELIGST 290: Majors' Seminar: Theories of Religion
Required of all majors and combined majors. The study of religion reflects upon itself. Representative modern and contemporary attempts to "theorize," and thereby understand, the phenomena of religion in anthropology, psychology, sociology, cultural studies, and philosophy. WIM.
Terms: Win
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Sockness, B. (PI)
SINY 124: New York and the Art World
In an influential essay of 1964 responding to the work of Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns, the philosopher Arthur Danto defined an "artworld" as "an atmosphere of artistic theory." More generally, the term art world has come to mean a social, cultural and economic network consisting of art professionals (artists, curators, collectors, gallerists/dealers, historians, educators and critics) and institutions (the media, museums, galleries, schools, auction houses and other markets, such as art fairs). Since the end of World War II and the migration of European artists associated with the School of Paris, New York has traditionally been considered the capital of the art world, a position it largely retains even as the contemporary art world is a global phenomenon. This course considers the definitions and practices associated with the New York art world through readings in history and theory and extensive on-the-ground engagement with its pivotal figures and sites. Field trips to museums, galleries and other cultural institutions showcase the wider implications and professional aspects of current art making, as well as the exhibition, distribution and reception of contemporary art. Some background in art history is helpful but not required.
Terms: not given this year, last offered Autumn 2016
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Units: 4
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
SLAVIC 77Q: Russia's Weird Classic: Nikolai Gogol
Preference to sophomores. An investigation of the works and life of Nikolai Gogol, the most eccentric of Russian authors and the founder of what is dubbed Fantastic Realism. Our investigation will be based on close reading of works written in various genres and created in various stages of Gogol's literary career. Taught in English.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-4
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Fleishman, L. (PI)
SLAVIC 146: The Great Russian Novel: Tolstoy and Dostoevsky (SLAVIC 346)
In this seminar, we will study the development of the 19th-century Russian novel through the close reading and broad cultural examination of three masterpieces: Ivan Goncharov's Oblomov (1859), Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (1866), and Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (1877). Through the analysis of the novels and their context, we will define the aesthetic contours of the Russian realist novel. We will pay special attention to the questions of genre, narration, discourse, medium, and intermediality.
Terms: Win
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Units: 3-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Greenleaf, M. (PI)
SLAVIC 156: Vladimir Nabokov: Displacement and the Liberated Eye (COMPLIT 115, COMPLIT 315, SLAVIC 356)
How did the triumphant author of "the great American novel"
Lolita evolve from the young author writing at white heat for the tiny sad Russian emigration in Berlin? We will read his short stories and the novels
The Luzhin Defense, Invitation to a Beheading, Lolita, Lolita the film, and
Pale Fire, to see how Nabokov generated his sinister-playful forms as a buoyant answer to the "hypermodern" visual and film culture of pre-WWII Berlin, and then to America's all-pervading postwar "normalcy" in his pathological comic masterpieces
Lolita and
Pale Fire. Buy texts in translation at the Bookstore; Slavic grad students will supplement with reading and extra sessions in original Russian.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 3-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Greenleaf, M. (PI)
SLAVIC 181: Philosophy and Literature (CLASSICS 42, COMPLIT 181, ENGLISH 81, FRENCH 181, GERMAN 181, ILAC 181, ITALIAN 181, PHIL 81)
What, if anything, does reading literature do for our lives? What can literature offer that other forms of writing cannot? Can fictions teach us anything? Can they make people more moral? Why do we take pleasure in tragic stories? This course introduces students to major problems at the intersection of philosophy and literature. It addresses key questions about the value of literature, philosophical puzzles about the nature of fiction and literary language, and ways that philosophy and literature interact. Readings span literature, film, and philosophical theories of art. Authors may include Sophocles, Dickinson, Toni Morrison, Proust, Woolf, Walton, Nietzsche, and Sartre. Students master close reading techniques and philosophical analysis, and write papers combining the two. This is the required gateway course for the Philosophy and Literature major tracks. Majors should register in their home department.
Terms: Win
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Units: 3-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Holliday, J. (PI)
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