32105
Seminar
WiSe 13/14: The American State of Nature: Enlightenment Philosophy in American Literature and Culture
Sonja Schillings
Comments
This seminar addresses the philosophical fiction of the state of nature, and its interpretation in U.S. American literature and popular culture.
Readings will include Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Frederick Jackson Turner, James Fenimore Cooper, Walt Whitman, Djuna Barnes, Flannery O'Connor, Edgar Allen Poe, Richard Wright, Judith Butler and Giorgio Agamben. Participants will be expected to write a term paper and an essay, and to participate actively in in-class discussions. close
16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Fri, 2013-10-18 12:00 - 14:00
Fri, 2013-10-25 12:00 - 14:00
Fri, 2013-11-01 12:00 - 14:00
Fri, 2013-11-08 12:00 - 14:00
Fri, 2013-11-15 12:00 - 14:00
Fri, 2013-11-22 12:00 - 14:00
Fri, 2013-11-29 12:00 - 14:00
Fri, 2013-12-06 12:00 - 14:00
Fri, 2013-12-13 12:00 - 14:00
Fri, 2013-12-20 12:00 - 14:00
Fri, 2014-01-10 12:00 - 14:00
Fri, 2014-01-17 12:00 - 14:00
Fri, 2014-01-24 12:00 - 14:00
Fri, 2014-01-31 12:00 - 14:00
Fri, 2014-02-07 12:00 - 14:00
Fri, 2014-02-14 12:00 - 14:00