Greetings from Tralfamadore: Scientific and Religious Satire in the Fiction of Kurt Vonnegut

Undergraduate / Graduate

This course will consist of the reading and discussion of the novels of Kurt Vonnegut, with special attention to the role of the unconstrained imaginary powers of science fiction in the rethinking the nature of science and of religion, or more broadly of knowledge and meaning, and of the possible relations between them. Works to be read will include some or all of the following: The Sirens of Titan, Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions, Slapstick, Galapagos, Timequake.