TENTATIVE WEEKLY SCHEDULE: Will be ADDED TO AND REVISED AS WE PROCEED. Revised 9/20/2004 Full length films: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, ? ? Betrayal
Date
Name of reading or web site
Assignments
FINAL: DEC 20, 6:00
Sept 13
Week 1
Introduction to Existentialism - 1. Students write very short essay on what they think existentialism is. 2. Eve and Bob talk about why it is still important/interesting. Bob: Existence precedes Essence, Pour Soi-En Soi and Descartes 3. Do the syllabus-assignments; Handouts: Ellison 4. Video on Nietzche: Beyone Good and Evil. ?5. Short Video on Existentialism?
Beyond Good and Evil - a video on Nietzche; Handouts on Existentialism. Short video on Existentialism
Sept 20
Week 2
Discussion of Dostoevsky and Ellison - the idea of the "outsider" and introspective literature. Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground, Part I, It is no easier, but Sparks Notes might help review.
Part I. There are anticipations of Orwell's, 1984, T.S. Eliot's, The Hollow Men, Perhaps Popular Images of Existentialism: Scenes from Rebel Without a Cause, Sunday Bloody Sunday
Video: The Grand Inquisitor from Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov
READ: 1.Ellison handout, 2. The Hollow Men, 3. Part I (first half) of Notes,and 4. The Preface and pp. 3-27* of Levy, Sartre. *You can skip the section, Sartre and Objectivism (10-16); Phil majors should read it to find out a bit about Heidegger and Wittgenstein.
Sept 27
Week 3
Notes from Underground on the web (the best version)
Notes from Underground on the web (another version)
Dostoevsky, Part II
Sartre, The Flies (handout)
Sartre: Existentialism is a Humanism
Video: Road to Freedom (on Sartre)
READ: Part II (On the Occasion of Wet Snow) 2. READ Sartre, The Flies, 3. Existentialism is a Humanism.
IN-CLASS QUIZ
Oct 4
Week 4
Discussion of Exams and Notes from Underground.
Sartre Video: Road to Freedom
Discussion of The Flies.
Questions and discussion of Levy through p. 40
1. Read, The Flies. and, Levy, pp. 25-40.
Oct 11
Week 5
Sartre, No Exit; Pages 37-39 in Levy, and the Chapter 5 are particularly relevant.
Listen to audio of No Exit with Glenda Jackson, Anna Massey, Donald Pleasance. Questions on No Exit, Sparks Notes on No Exit
Might show all or some of Betrayal.
READ: 1. No Exit.
READ: 1. Levy, pp. 40-60, and 75-86 Authenticity and Bad Faith.
Think about Questions on No Exit
Oct 18
Week 6
Film: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Sparks Notes) based on play by Edward Albee.
How do we relate? Film review.
Begin reading Nausea.
Read Levy, pp. 59-73, "From Ontolotgy to Ethics." Also, would be helpful to read 87-116
QUIZ
Oct 25
Week 7
Discussion of Who's Afraid of VW and No Exit. Perhaps listen to the last of No Exit.
Discussion of Lebenswelt and the Scientific View of World, and relation to Nausea
Sartre, Nausea, to about 90
Read Levy, 87-116
Nov 1
Week 8
Sartre, Nausea - complete:
Nov 8
Week 9
Leaving Las Vegas
Take Home Quiz
Nov 15
Week 10
Murdoch, Under the Net. Some thought questions
Short biography. An Iris film festival.
If you really get caught up, you can find all the places in the novel on a London May at http://www.robotwisdom.com/jorn/london.html
Nov 22
Week 11
Nov 29
Week 12
Camus, The Stranger
"What is absurd is the confrontation between the sense of the irrational and the overwhelming desire for clarity which resounds in the depths of man."
IN-CLASS QUIZ
Dec 6
Week 13
Barth, The End of the Road
Video of The End of the Road
Dec 13
Week 14
Miller, After the Fall
IN-CLASS QUIZ??
Dec 20
TAKE HOME FINAL DUE
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