Great Books Seminar VI

(4 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The second in the senior Great Books seminar sequence, this course focuses on works of seminal importance from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The texts studied include Dostoevsky's <i>Brothers Karamazov</i>, Marx's <i>Capital</i> and <i>Communist Manifesto</i>, Flaubert's <i>Madame Bovary</i>, Nietzsche's <i>Beyond Good and Evil</i>, William James's <i>Varieties of Religious Experience</i>, Freud's <i>Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis</i>, Buber's <i>I and Thou</i>, Weber's <i>Protestant Ethic</i> and <i>The Spirit Of Capitalism</i>, Wittgenstein's <i>Blue Book</i>, Heidegger's <i>What Is Philosophy?</i>, and Ellison's <i>Invisible Man</i>.