The Other:Questions/Interprets

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course is designed to help students of international affairs understand and apply the concept of the Other, situating it in different contexts: literary, cultural, and socio-political. While mostly literature-oriented, the course surveys selected literary as well as non-fictional texts from various historical and cultural backgrounds, examining authors such as Simone de Beauvoir, Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Martin Buber, Z.D. Gurevitch, Franz Kafka, John Steinbeck, and Ulrich A. Boschwitz, with emphasis on conceptual parallels and contradictions as reflected in different cultures and writing traditions.