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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
German Language & Literature
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Christoph Schmidt
Coordinator Office Hours:
Tuesday 9.30 - 10.30
Teaching Staff:
Prof Christoph Schmidt
Course/Module description:
In this course we shall focus on the crisis of love as percieved in the writings of modern and postmodern authors, philosophers and pysychogians. We shall try to understand the connection between love, eros and sex and the contraction of the Romantic love to sex and power on the background of the secularisation of modern culture.
Course/Module aims:
Knowledge and Critique
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Knowedge and Critique
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Reading and dsicussion
Course/Module Content:
Love
Eros
Sex
Culture
Psychoanalysis
Secularisation
Power
Violence
Required Reading:
1 J.W.Goethe: West Eastern Divan
2 De Sade: Philosophy in the Boudoir
3 J.Herder: Song of Songs
4 L.Feuerbach: The Essence of Christianity
5 R.Wagner: Tristan and Isolde
6.Freud: Culture and its Discontent
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Additional Reading Material:
A. Badiou In Praise of Love
J.L.Marion: The Erotic Phenomenon
M.Nussbaum: Love`s Knowledge
E.Illouz: Why Love hurts
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 30 %
Project work 70 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
There might be changes in bibliography according to the need in class
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