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  [### German 100. Introduction to German Literature and Thought

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

 **Year offered:**  2024 

 

 Day/Time TBA Instructor Carranza A survey course on major works in German literature, philosophy, and critique from the mid-eighteenth century to the twentieth century. Close reading of representative texts opens onto broader ramifications in cultural and intellectual... 

 

   [### German 100x. Introduction to German Literature, History, and Thought

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

 **Year offered:**  2025 

 

 Instructor Sütterlin Date/Time W 3:00 - 5:00 pm A survey course on major works in German literature, philosophy, and critique from the mid-eighteenth century to the twentieth century. Close reading of representative texts opens onto broader ramifications in cultural and... 

 

   [### German 107. The Self in German Idealism

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

 **Year offered:**  2024 

 

 Instructor Dymek Day/Time T 12:00 - 2:00 pm What defines the self? In this course, we take a close look at the intricate philosophical investigations regarding the self within German Idealism. We study pivotal works by key figures like Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte... 

 

   [### German 120. The Age of Goethe

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

 **Year offered:**  2025 

 

 Instructor Burgard Day/Time T 12:00–2:45pmMajor movements in German literature and thought from the mid-18th to early 19th century: Enlightenment, Sentimentalism, Storm and Stress, Classicism, Romanticism. Readings include Kant, Klopstock, Lessing, Goethe, Lenz, Schiller... 

 

   [### German 140. German Social Thought, Nietzsche to Habermas

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 **Semester:**   Fall 

 **Year offered:**  2023 

 

 Day/Time MW 10:30AM - 11:45AM Instructor Gordon A philosophical and historical survey of major debates in modern German social theory over the span of a century, from Nietzsche's anti-foundationalist critique of morality and truth to Habermas's attempt to rebuild a pragmatic... 

 

   [### German 150. Under Surveillance: Media, Security, and the Loss of Privacy

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

 **Year offered:**  2024 

 

 Day/Time M 12:45PM - 2:45PM Instructor TBA With a camera positioned at the entrance to the director’s factory, Louis Lumière’s famous early film of 1895, La Sortie de l’usine Lumière à Lyon, captured workers as they left for the day. Today, surveillance practices have... 

 

   [### German 181. Walter Benjamin’s Theory of Modernity: History, Language, Technology, Catastrophe

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 **Year offered:**  2024 

 

 Instructor Stewart Date/Time W 3:00 - 5:00 pm Although he is arguably one of the most influential Western thinkers of the 20th century, what does Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) have to teach the 21st century? A great deal, it turns out. For the questions about history, language... 

 

   [### German 260. Writing the Body in the Posthuman Age

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 Day/Time This course is not being offered during the current academic year. Instructor Sütterlin Genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, smart surveillance – recent scientific and technological advancements have reconfigured our understanding of the human body and its... 

 

   [### German 291. Questions of Theory

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 **Semester:**   Fall 

 **Year offered:**  2023 

 

 Day/Time T 12:00–2:45pm Instructor Sütterlin To explore key literary, cultural and critical theories, we pose questions through readings of classic and contemporary theorists, from Aristotle to Kant, Schiller, Arendt, Barthes, Foucault, Glissant, Ortiz, Kittler, and Butler... 

 

   [### HIST 2323. Reading Marx

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 **Semester:**   Fall 

 **Year offered:**  2024 

 

 Instructor Frank Johnson Date/Time M 9:45 - 11:45 am This graduate seminar is designed as a close and cooperative framework for reading new interpretative literature on Marx, with an emphasis on philosophical questions and contemporary debates concerning, e.g., Marxist...