TEN IMAGES OF HELL IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: Fall 2013
Syllabus
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I. |
World War I
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The Experience
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Remarque, Dante
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II. |
The Holocaust
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The Experience
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Wiesel
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III. |
Existentialism
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The Experience
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Sartre, O'Connor
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IV. |
Tyrants, Murders, Madmen
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The Origins
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Djilas, Arendt
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Stalinist Terror
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The Origins
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Orwell
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VI. |
Technological Domination
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The Origins
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Huxley, Singer
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VII. |
Pronouncements, Threats, and Utilitarianism
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The Implications
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Dostoevsky, Milgrim
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VIII. |
Nihilism: A World Without Hell
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The Implications
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Dawkins, Walls, Lennon
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IX. |
America's Hell I: Poverty
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The Duty
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X. |
America's Hell II: Torture
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The Duty
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Harphem, Bin Laden
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XI. |
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Hell in the Twenty-first Century?
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