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May 15, 2024
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GERM 113 SC - Modern Thought II: Walter Benjamin
What is modern? What can modernism do for us? Few thinkers have given us more compelling answers to such questions than Walter Benjamin did, arguably the most influential Western thinker of the last few decades. This class discusses some of Benjamins? seminal writings on history, mass media, the modern metropolis, Marxism, labor, the working class, drama, film, commodity production, drugs, childhood, love, redemption, the messiah, and Judaism. We will watch the films Benjamin saw, look at the art he wrote about, and read the novels (Proust, Kafka, etc.) he read. Readings are provided in English and German. Taught in German.
Course Credit: 1.0
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