Description:
Readings in novels, poetry, and philosophy of the period that stretches from the Romantic exaltation of love to our contemporary sexualized and psychological idea of romance. The course will also discuss the return of neoplatonic ideals in 20th-century religious philosophy. |
Readings from Western
European Culture:
Readings feature works by Goethe, Nabokov, James Baldwin, Simone Weil, Teilhard de Chardin and others.
GENERAL EDUCATION AREAS:
This course satisfies the Requirement in European Traditions as well as the Writing Requirement of the General Education Program |
