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Germany and its European Context

Subject: Language

Art: Frederik de Wit, 17th century world map - Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula, between 1670 · Public domain

Instructor: Prof. Charity Scribner
Term: Fall 2002
Level: Undergraduate
What's inside: 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 21 other files · 3 web pages
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Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Siegert, Hubertus. Berlin Babylon . (In-class screening) Pinder, John. “What the EU is for,” “Single Market, Single Currency,” and “The EU and the Rest of Europe.” Nietzsche, Friedrich. “The Four Great Errors.”

Lecture 3: Byatt, A. S. Babel Tower. Nietzsche, Friedrich. “The ‘Improvers of Mankind’”

Lecture 4: Byatt, A. S. Babel Tower. Noble, Michael J. “A Tower of Tongues.”

Lecture 5: Nietzsche, Friedrich. On the Advantages and Disadvantages of History for Life .

Lecture 6: Hermann, Judith. “This Side of the Oder.” Kristeva, Julia. “Europe Divided: Politics, Ethics, Religion.”

Lecture 7: Schulze, Ingo. Simple Stories . Wolf, Christa. “The Leftover Baggage of German History: Correspondence with Jürgen Habermas.”

Lecture 8: Wolf, Christa. Cassandra 3-138. Bahro, Rudolf. “From Red to Green: Industrialism and Cultural Revolution.”

Lecture 9: Strauß, Botho. “Idiots of the Immediate.” Sloterdijk, Peter. “Cynicism — The Twilight of False Consciousness.”

Lecture 10: Vinterberg, Thomas. The Celebration. (In-class screening) Aspects of Dogma: p.o.v. Foucault, Michel. “What is an Author?”

Lecture 11: Houellebecq, Michel. The Elementary Particles. Piper, Andrew. “Project Übermensch: German Intellectuals Confront Genetic Engineering.”

Lecture 12: Beuys, Joseph. Artworks_._ (In-class screening) Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. “Beuys: The Twilight of the Idol.”

Lecture 13: Kristeva, Julia. “Europhilia-Europhobia.”