LITER 113 - Existential Fictions: From Saint Augustine to Jean-Paul Sartre and Beyond

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Harvard University

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This course examines problems of existence in relation to self and other in the world from the early Christian era to our days. It shows how existence preoccupies major writers who have approached its implications (and the dilemmas it inspires) in different ways. At stake are the redemptive powers of religion, thoughts about the death of God, the limits of atheism, and philosophies of becoming. Texts by Saint Augustine, Montaigne, Pascal, Kierkegaard, Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche, Gide, Heidegger, Sartre, Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, and others.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.harvard.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 495-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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