GERST 4260

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GERST 4260
The Animal

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2018-2019.

In recent years literary representations and philosophical discussions of the status of the animal vis-à-vis the human have abounded.  In this course, we will track the literary phenomenology of animality.  In addition we will read philosophical texts that deal with the questions of animal rights and of the metaphysical implications of the "animal."  Readings may include, among others, Agamben, Aristotle, Berger, the Bible, Calvino, Coetzee, Darwin, Derrida, Descartes, Donhauser, Gorey, Haraway, Hegel, Heidegger, Herzog, Kafka, Kant, La Mettrie, de Mandeville, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Ozeki, Rilke, Schopenhauer, Singer, Sorabji, Sterchi, Stevens, de Waal, Wittgenstein, Wolfe.  A reading knowledge of German and French would be helpful.

When Offered Spring.

Distribution Category (CA-AS)

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4240, ENGL 4260, GOVT 4279

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16717 GERST 4260   SEM 101

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  • Taught in English.