| Date | Description |
W 8/23 |
Introduction; Night and Fog (1955) (32 min) |
| F 8/25 | Discussion; Introduction to LiveJournal |
| Modernity and the Holocaust: Philosophical Responses to the Holocaust |
| M 8/28 |
Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, from Dialectics of Enlightenment |
| W 8/30 | ctd. |
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| F 9/1 | ctd. |
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| M 9/4 | LABOR DAY |
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| W 9/6 |
Jürgen Habermas, “Modernity—An Unfinished Project” Lyotard, from The Differend
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| F 9/8 |
Richard Rorty, “Habermas and Lyotard on Postmodernity” Emilia Steuerman, “Habermas vs Lyotard”; Martin Jay, Habermas and Postmodernism”
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| M 9/11 | Habermas/Lyotard ctd. |
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| W 9/13 | Theodor Adorno, from Negative Dialectic |
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| F 9/15 | Adorno ctd. |
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| M 9/18 |
Maurice Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster |
| W 9/20 | Blanchot ctd. |
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| F 9/22 | Blanchot ctd. |
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| M 9/25 |
Martin Heidegger, “Rectoral Address,” “Letter on Humanism”; Victor Farias, from Heidegger and Nazism
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| W 9/27 |
Arnold Davidson, “Questions Concerning Heidegger” from Symposium on Heidegger and Nazism
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| F 9/29 | Jacques Derrida, Of Spirit |
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| M 10/2 |
Derrida ctd. Gillian Rose, “Of Derrida’s Spirit” |
| W 10/4 |
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, from Heidegger, Art, and Politics |
| F 10/6 | ctd. |
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| M 10/9 |
Jean-Francois Lyotard, from Heidegger and “the Jews”
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| W 10/11 | ctd. |
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| Memory and Trauma: Personal Responses to the Holocaust |
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| F 10/13 |
George Kren and
Leon Rappaport, from The Holocaust and the Crisis in Human Behavior; Zygmunt Bauman, from Modernity and the Holocaust
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| M 10/16 |
Terrence Des Pres, from The Survivor Primo Levi, “The Grey Zone” |
| W 10/18 | ctd. |
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| F 10/20 | ctd. |
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| M 10/23 |
Tzvetan Todorov, from Facing The Extreme; Jean Amery, from At the Mind’s Limits
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| W 10/25 | ctd. |
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| F 10/27 | ctd. |
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| M 10/30 |
Tadeusz Borowski, “This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, “ “A Day at Harmez”; Ida Fink, “The Key Game,” “A Spring Morning”; Charlotte Delbo, None of Us Will Return (excerpt)
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| W 11/1 | ctd.f |
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| F 11/3 | ctd. |
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| M 11/6 | Agamben |
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| W 11/8 | Agamben ctd. |
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| F 11/10 | Agamben ctd. |
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| The Limits of Representation: Artistic Responses to the Holocaust |
| M 11/13 |
Saul Friedlander, “Introduction” to Probing the Limits of Representation; Hayden White, “Historical Emplotment and the Problem of Truth”; Martin Jay, “Of Plots, Witnesses, and Judgments”
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| W 11/15 | ctd. |
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| F 11/17 |
Kristina Busse & Menachem Feuer, “Is the Holocaust a Suitable Subject for Fiction?” Elie Wiesel, “The Holocaust as Literary Inspiration”; Peter Haidu, “The Dialectics of Unspeakability”; Berel Lang, “The Representation of Limits”
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| M 11/20 | ctd. |
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| W 11/22 | THANKSGIVING |
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| F 11/24 |
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| M 11/27 | Art Spiegelman, Maus |
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| W 11/29 | Spiegelman ctd. |
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| F 12/1 | Spiegelman ctd. |
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| M 12/4 | Life is Beautiful (1997) (118) |
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| W 12/6 | Life is Beautiful |
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| F 12/8 | Discussion film |
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| M 12/11 | Discussion film |
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| W 12/13 | Final Class |
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