ANTHROP 3ET3

ETHICS OF HOPE AND DESPAIR

Undergraduate

Fall 2025 · C01

Readings

Fall 2025 · C01

Ghassan Kanafani, “Letter from Gaza” (1956), https://www.marxists.org/archive/kanafani/1956/letterfromgaza.htm (we’ll watch John Berger read it during class)
Hisham Matar, “Letter from Gaza,” Granta 106, May 11, 2009, https://granta.com/letter-from-gaza/
Samera Esmeir, "The Days Before," In the Midst (blog of Critical Times journal), August 21, 2025, https://ctjournal.org/2025/08/21/the-days-before/
Talal Asad, “Reflections on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” Humanity 15, no. 2 (Summer 2024): 139-158
Omar el Akkad, One Day Everyone Will Have Been Against This (Penguin, 2025), selection
Sigmund Freud, “Thoughts for the Times on War and Death” (1925), 275-301
David Theo Goldberg, “In the Grip of Dread,” LA Review of Books , September 9, 2018, https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/in-the-grip-of-dread/
Film: Lars von Trier, Melancholia (2011) (2h 16min)
Walter Benjamin, “On the Concept of History,” in his Selected Writings vol. 4, 389-397

Mourning in the Anthropocene: Ecological Grief and Earthly Coexistence
Joshua Trey Barnett · 2022 · Required
Michigan State University Press · ISBN 9781611864342

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