Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: WALTER BENJAMIN: AESTHETICS, HISTORY, AND POLITICS

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Mapping German Culture. Benjamin has been celebrated as a revolutionary Marxist, a theologian of Jewish Messianism, and as an essayist and literary critic. The course offers an introduction to his writings by way of situating them in the historical background of the Weimar Republic and the crises of European society on the eve of WWII. Taught in English with a possible FLAC section. Cross-list: GERM 340.