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| Campus | Haverford |
| Semester | Spring 2025 |
| Registration ID | COMLH312B001 |
| Course Title | Adv Topics French Lit: Que sais-je? Jugements et préjugés des Essais de Montaigne |
| Credit | 1.00 |
| Department | Comparative Literature |
| Instructor | Sedley,David |
| Times and Days | F 01:30pm-03:55pm
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| Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1050 This course is about Michel de Montaigne, whose fame in French is comparable to Shakespeare's in English. In any language, Montaigne is the inventor of an intellectual exercise typically assigned to college students: the essay. Montaigne wrote the first book of "essays" as experiments in judging. He did so in order to improve the quality of his ownand his readers'judgments. In conducting these experiments, however, he discovered cognitive, emotional, and cultural reflexesin other words, prejudicesthat preceded judgment and skewed its outcomes. In this course, we will follow the struggle between judgment and prejudice staged in Montaigne's Essais. We will thereby gain perspective on the values of essay-writing in the context of an education charged with the task of decolonizing the mind. In French.; In French.; Crosslisted: FREN and COML; Prerequisite(s): At least one 200-level course Humanities, A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (Hav: HU, A) |
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