Love and Death

Love and death are not merely private experiences--they are central to our public and civic lives. This course explores how love inspires solidarity, compassion, and sacrifice, while death confronts us with questions of justice, memory, and moral duty. Through classical and modern texts, we'll consider how we should honor the dead, value life, and understand love as both a personal passion and a civic virtue. These paradoxes are examined in works of literature, philosophy, and art.