POL 210 - Autobiography

Institution:

Washington and Lee University

Subject:

Politics

Description:

A study of autobiographies, as philosophical, literary, and theological genres, and as disciplines of self-awareness, self-knowledge, self-deception, and self-creation. While attentive to events, circumstances, and places of a life, we examine and employ varied psychic, mental, spiritual, and written practices that enable one to give an account of oneself, to oneself, to a person, public, and gods, imagined or otherwise. Augustine’s Confessions, Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy, Rousseau’s Reveries of a Solitary Walker, and Nietzsche’s Ecce Homo each represent a mode of autobiographic practice and presentation: confession, meditation, reverie, and reflection. Students write their own spiritual and philosophical autobiography. Velásquez.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wlu.edu/

Phone Number:

(540) 458-8400

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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