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Interiority and the interior as focal points of 19th-century Europe. Domestic space, and its political dimensions and structures of feeling in 19th-century German literature, from the romance to the detective novel. Ideology of domesticity in German music, design, architecture, visual art, and science of the period. In German.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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European culture long relied on a narrative of inexorable human progress. However, starting in the nineteenth century, this triumphalist narrative was shadowed by another tradition that rejected such trust in progress. This course will trace the pessimistic tradition in Europe in literature, philosophy, the study of history, anthropology and psychology ¿ and seek to distinguish between pessimism in the fields of morality, culture and intellectual life. Authors include Giacomo Leopardi, Arthur Schopenhauer, Lautréamont, T. S. Eliot and Sigmund Freud.
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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.
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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.
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Modern anti-heroes who assert themselves through feats of reduction and retreat. Writers include Rousseau, Tieck, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Dostoevsky, and Kafka.
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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.
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Interiority and the interior as focal points of 19th-century Europe. Domestic space, and its political dimensions and structures of feeling in 19th-century German literature, from the romance to the detective novel. Ideology of domesticity in German music, design, architecture, visual art, and science of the period. In German.
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