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

Lecturers:
Sonja Schillings

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Fri, 2013-10-25 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Sonja Schillings

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Fri, 2013-11-01 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Sonja Schillings

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Fri, 2013-11-08 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Sonja Schillings

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Fri, 2013-11-15 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Sonja Schillings

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Fri, 2013-11-22 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Sonja Schillings

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Fri, 2013-11-29 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Sonja Schillings

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Fri, 2013-12-06 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Sonja Schillings

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Fri, 2013-12-13 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Sonja Schillings

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Fri, 2013-12-20 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Sonja Schillings

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Fri, 2014-01-10 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Sonja Schillings

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Fri, 2014-01-17 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Sonja Schillings

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Fri, 2014-01-24 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Sonja Schillings

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Fri, 2014-01-31 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Sonja Schillings

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Fri, 2014-02-07 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Sonja Schillings

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Fri, 2014-02-14 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Sonja Schillings

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

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