German poet and playwright Friedrich Schiller digs into human political and intellectual history to develop a powerful and concise argument about the critical role of arts and literature on human...
You read it as a kid. Now understand it as an adult. You’ll be sorry when you’re done (but in a good way). Please read Part One prior to the first class.
Join us on October 16th for a daylong Symposium at the David Rubenstein Forum in Hyde Park to explore the liberal arts, to build community with fellow learners, and to celebrate the 130th anniversary...
Of Dostoevsky’s greatest novels, Brothers Karamazov stands out for its polyphonic narrative structure and carnivalesque sensibility. Join us for a close reading and discussion of all its voices.
Hugo's masterpiece Les Misérables is a sophisticated novel that combines history, philosophy, and literature, crossing genres in a way that influenced Tolstoy’s War and Peace, and genuinely earning...
In Ulysses, James Joyce composed arguably the modernist novel par excellence. In the course of telling a story, Joyce explores not only the lives of his characters, but also story-telling itself. The...
Leo Tolstoy is one of the world's great storytellers. this collection, we will explore works ranging from 1862 to 1905 from "The Cossacks" through the great "Hadji Murad" and "Alyosha the Pot." They...
This course will grapple with the causes and consequences of Nazi totalitarianism through close readings of Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hitler's Mein Kampf, and...
When Heidegger published Being and Time in 1927, he profoundly changed the face of Western philosophy on the European continent and beyond. Building on Husserl's radical critique of Descartes and...
The book by Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (1749), is considered by many to be the first and best of English novels. Though the title would suggest something different than a...