TEN IMAGES OF HELL IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

 
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Course Sections
Readings

I.

World War I

The Experience

Remarque, Dante

II.

The Holocaust

The Experience

Wiesel

III.

Existentialism

The Experience

Sartre, O'Connor

IV.

Tyranny and Madness

The Origins

Djilas, Arendt

V.

Totalitarianism

The Origins

Orwell

VI.

Technological Imperialism

The Origins

Huxley, Singer

VII.

Moral Confusion

The Threat

Dostoevsky, Milgrim

VIII.

Nihilism

The Threat

Dawkins, Walls, Lennon

IX.

Poverty

The Challenge

Kotlowitz

X.

Terrorism

The Challenge

Harphem, Bin Laden

XI.

Natural Calamity?

Hell in the Twenty-first Century?