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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Fall 2019 |
Registration ID | GERMB320001 |
Course Title | Topics in German Lit & Culture-Sinn und Wahnsinn |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Comparative Literature |
Instructor | Strair,Margaret |
Times and Days | MW 01:10pm-02:30pm
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Room Location | OL111 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1337 This is a topics course. Course content varies. Taught in German.; Current topic description: Sinn und Wahnsinn: Die Literatur des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts ,.Sapere aude!” or “dare to be wise!” declares Kant in his 1784 essay “Answer to the Question, What is Enlightenment?” as the dictum of the Age of Reason. At the center of Enlightenment thought was a mode of being and knowing in the world defined chiefly through the clarity of sight and the use of one’s own rationality. Nevertheless, powerful countercurrents emerge in the literature parallel to and in the wake of Enlightenment that give primacy to feeling, madness, and unrestrainable forces of inspired creativity. Accordingly, these give rise to certain modes of perception, styles of expression, and forms of media that destabilize the Enlightened subject. In this course, we consider this dark side to the Enlightenment as it emerges in tensions between ,,Sinn” and a corresponding ,,Wahnsinn” during the various political, social, cultural, and aesthetic shifts in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. We will explore the ways in which this tension is mediated through various modes of self-expression, literary production, and cultural techniques. This course is taught in German. Approach: Writing Attentive; Haverford: A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (A), Humanities (HU) . |
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