Course Syllabus (pdf)

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Paper Topics 1

Paper Topics 2

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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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