HIST 6523

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HIST 6523
Politics of the Intellectual in 20C Europe

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.

This course will concentrate on European thinkers' engagement with the politics of the 20th century. Discussion will cover a range of cultural and intellectual currents and ideologies—modernism, fascism, communism, "dissidence," "internal" migration, "anti-politics"—as well as genres (essays, letters, fiction, criticism, poetry, film). Readings will include works by, among others, Alexander Bogdanov, Georges Sorel, Rosa Luxemburg, Alexandra Kollontai, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Antonio Gramsci, Anna Akhmatova, Thomas Mann, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Emil Cioran, Carl Schmitt, Istvan Bibo, Jean-Paul Sartre, Milovan Djilas, Albert Camus, Hannah Arendt, Nikos Kazantzakis, George Orwell, Nazim Hikmet, Christa Wolf, Leszek Kolakowski, Vaclav Havel, Joseph Brodsky, Czeslaw Milosz, Adam Michnik, Jacques Derrida, Jurgen Habermas, Orhan Pamuk, and W.G. Sebald.

When Offered Spring.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 4523

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17370 HIST 6523   SEM 101

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