Course Syllabus (pdf)
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Additional Related Materials
- William James, “A Will to Believe”
More William James on Religion - The Varieties of Religious Experience
On Pragmatism and American Thought - Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club
On the Boundaries of Scientific Inquiry - VS Ramachandran, Phantoms In The Brain
- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist
More Nietzsche on Morality and Religion - On the Genealogy of Morals
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness in New Contexts - Apocalypse Now (Redux)
- WB Yeats, “The Second Coming”
New York Times op-ed, Adam Cohen, “What WB Yeats’s ‘Second Coming’ Really Says About the Iraq War,” February 12, 2007
- The Battle of Algiers
Another Movie on the French-Algerian Experience - Days of Glory (2006)
- Vaclav Havel, “Power of the Powerless”
German Movie About ‘Dissidents’ under ‘Post-Totalitarian’ Regimes - The Lives of Others (2006)
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