Month February 2017

You have two options: Go visit the Met museum. Take a photo of a Romantic work of art (go to the European paintings this section is FULL of Romantic artworks) and discuss. Post the picture on the blog as a… Continue Reading →

Selections from The Sufferings of Young Werther- Goethe 2012 Edition: Published by Norton Translator: Stanley Corngold Below you will find your reading for Monday. Since we will be skipping around quite a bit in the book- I suggest you read… Continue Reading →

In our short time together we have really focused on the theme of Reason and more specifically how very complicated it can be to define what Reason is in any given context. We looked at Kant and Descartes who created… Continue Reading →

Here is something that may be really helpful to you! It is a bit cheesy-but for the most part it sticks to our text. Read some of the play while watching this and it will help you get the tone… Continue Reading →

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“Pleasure/Bliss: terminologically, there is always a vacillation- I stumble, I err. In any case, there will always be a margin of indecision; the distinction will not be the source of absolute classifications, the paradigm will falter, the meaning will be… Continue Reading →