Crises of Culture in an Age of War and Revolution

4.0 credits

What do psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, novelists George Orwell and Virginia Woolf, and composer Dmitri Shostakovich all have in common? They all experienced the combined crises of the First World War and the Russian Revolution, they all lived in a world of rising conflict between fascism and antifascism, and they all responded by creating individual arguments and artworks that continue to speak to us today. This course will focus on the complexities of their time as a way of thinking about the complexities of ours.