GER-E 371 SPECL TPCS IN
GERMANIC STUDIES (3 CR)
VT: THE ENLIGHTENMENT& ITS SHADOWS
35147
04:00P-06:15P TR BH 232
Chaouli M
12 8 0
TOPIC : The Enlightenment and its Shadows
Above class meets second eight weeks only
Above class meets with another section of GER-E 371
VT: THE ENLIGHTENMENT& ITS SHADOWS
35148 RSTR 04:00P-06:15P
TR BH 232 Chaouli
M
8 6 0
TOPIC : The Enlightenment and its Shadows
Above class meets second eight weeks only
Above class open to Hutton Honors College students only
Above class meets with another section of GER-E 371
Topic: The Enlightenment and Its
Shadows
This course
sets the stage for a great clash between ideas that have shaped our modern
world. On one side, the side of what has been called the European
Enlightenment, are thinkers that put in question traditional values, be they
social, religious, or philosophical, all in the name of a new order based on
the principles of rational and critical thinking. On the other side, we find
the critics and opponents of these rational thinkers. We will be interested in
examining the form that this critique of rationality has taken. We will see
that the most incisive of these critics of rationality do not oppose it, that
they are not anti-rational or non-rational, but rather drive rationality to its
limits. We will be interested in the way that works from different disciplines
— literature, poetry, philosophy, and psychoanalysis — explore these
moments of the interruption of rational thinking, showing that they contain new
modes of meaning that were unavailable to the thinkers of the Enlightenment.
Readings by Mendelssohn, Kant, Lessing, F. Schlegel, Novalis, Kleist, E.T.A.
Hoffmann, Heine, Nietzsche, Freud, and Kafka.
All readings
and discussions in English. The course carries College A&H credit. With
permission, course may be taken for Intensive Writing credit.
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