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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This seminar will explore the various modalities and functions of the marvelous in the "classical age" (1650-1700). What is the place of the extraordinary, the supernatural and the fabulous in a strictly ordered and increasingly rationalistic world? How can literature and art astonish, enchant and transport while following the rules of reason and verisimilitude? Readings will range from mythological spectacles to fairy tales, considered with relation to the critical debates about the merveilleux and the sublime, the Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes, and the discourse of absolute monarchy.
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What does it mean to be modern? And, upon what notions of progress and individuality do claims of modernity rest? Through the figure of the dreamer, and through the manner in which dreams in fiction police the boundary between rationality and imagination, this course investigates eighteenth- and nineteenth-century debates on stasis and change, future and past, agency and its failures in the Age of Revolutions. Topics include private and public distinction, architecture as cultural signifier, the abandoned Louvre, fetishism and animation, and the stakes of literary history in defining Enlightenment and Romanticism as dialectical movements.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course examines the romantic revolution in literature in the political context of the struggle to establish popular sovereignty (1789-1848). What links the crisis of representation in the political sphere to the profound transformation in the arts in the early nineteenth century? What disjoins these two spheres? Who gets represented? Is romanticism liberal or reactionary? Can writing be democratic? Taking the revolutionary trinity of values - liberty, equality, and fraternity, along with their discontents - as a guiding thread, we look at how some central romantic works explore their political and aesthetic consequences.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
We will examine the works and figure of Albert Camus - to redefine them. Through the study of his most acclaimed narratives, plays, essays, but also his more obscure juvenilia, notebooks, and up to his last, unfinished novel, we will see what confirms the canonical (sometimes sanctified) dimension of Camus, and what challenges it. Looking at his critical reception and his own assessments, we will assess his greatest accomplishments, his shortcomings and even (self-proclaimed) failures. Always in between, eternally moving, we will reconsider Camus as concerned as much by politics as he was by poetics.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This seminar will examine the development of the categories of norm and anomaly, law and accident, reason and unreason in the philosophical determination of man's relationship to the natural world and the definition of human égarements as challenge to self-knowledge and social order. We will study the specific relationship between madness and society, creativity and silence. We will read texts by Sade, Lautréamont, Nerval, E. A. Poe, Verne, Freud, and Antonin Artaud, and discuss films by Fritz Lang, Jean-Luc Godard and Ridley Scott.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
An examination of the historical and theoretical dimensions of the Haitian Revolution, exploring Haiti's central role in Atlantic Modernity since 1791. What can Haiti teach us about the process of political subjectivation, from Boukman's Vodun ceremony in the Bois Caïman in 1791 to the vicissitudes of egalitarian politics since the overthrow of Duvalier in 1986? Readings in the historiography of the revolution and theory from Hegel to Badiou. Special focus on the sudden appearance of Haiti in contemporary critical theory, from Hardt & Negri to Buck-Morss, Hallward, Zizek, and Badiou.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
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