Tragedy and Dignity

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

We will focus on a tragic tradition that challenges philosophy's ideals of dignity, reason, and self-control. Key authors will include Sophocles and Euripides, Plato and Aristotle, Shakespeare, Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche, and Thomas Mann. We will also plan to attend a performance of Wagner's opera The Rheingold. This course is the Philosophy and Literature gateway seminar for the Minor in Philosophy, Religion, and Literature, but it is open to other students.