We also read modern and contemporary genres such as bildungsroman (coming-of-age literature) and children’s literature (Tolkien’s Hobbit). Prof. Jauernig (Philosophy) [Syllabus] Often God will be “on trial”: Was the Deluge genocide? FALL 2020 CORE-UA 400, Texts and Ideas: Topics—Meaning Films: Reed’s Third Man, Axel’s Babette’s Feast, Hitchcock’s Vertigo, Altman’s Gosford Park, Nolan’s Memento. All classes will involve the student in some form of collaboration (group presentations, team-teaching a text, interviewing same subject, co-authoring, etc. Readings: Book of J; Genesis, Exodus, Isaiah; Matthew, Galatians; Gospel of Mary; Euripides' Medea; Aristophanes' Clouds; Plato's Apology and Republic; Xenophon's Apology; Augustine's Confessions; Marx and Engels’ Communist Manifesto; Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling; Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality; Freud's "Case of Miss Lucy R." and Civilization and Its Discontents. In the midst of all the political turmoil … “God” is the alpha and omega of all thinking and discourse, religious or not, whether as the presumed carrier of all perfections or, rather, as the summum of all contradictions. FALL 2020 CORE-UA 400, Texts and Ideas: Topics—Literature and Philosophy in China How does the embodied experience of vocal expression relate to metaphorical uses of the voice? How do these older works about theodicy speak to and from history, and why does theodicy matter today? In art, philosophy, and literature it also assumes the task of reconciling the cultural inheritance of Greece and Rome with the Christian tradition (itself entering into a moment of crisis as allegiances split between the Catholic church and the "reformed" church of Luther and Calvin). SPRING 2020 CORE-UA 400, Texts and Ideas: Topics—What is a good human life? Readings: Plato’s Republic, Xenophon’s Anabasis, More’s Utopia, Milton’s Paradise Lost, Marx and Engels’ Communist Manifesto, Wells’ Time Machine, Bellamy’s Looking Backward, Sinclair’s The Jungle, Zamiatin’s We, Bulgakov’s Heart of a Dog, Huxley’s Brave New World, Orwell’s 1984. “Renaissance” means rebirth, and during this period Italian intellectuals, writers, painters and sculptures saw themselves as contributing to a rebirth of Western culture by turning for inspiration to the philosophical, literary, and artistic legacy of the ancient world. “Life is a journey” is a well-known metaphor and a subject common in literature. SPRING 2021 CORE-UA 400, Texts and Ideas: Exile and Belonging in Ancient and Modern Literature In fact, in an era when think tanks have become content creators, public services use texts and tweets to help their target populations, and blogs and social media are major fundraising tools, clear, smart, engaging communications are essential in any public servant’s toolkit. Modern understanding of the human body is built upon millennia of philosophical inquiry and scientific endeavor. FALL 2019 CORE-UA 400, Texts and Ideas: Topics—The Body in Philosophy How do bodies come to bear psychical, social, political and philosophical significance insofar as they are sexed, gendered, raced, abled and disabled, desiring and desired, bearers of ideality or sites of disgust? How does vocal expression relate to issues of gender and identity? FALL 2019 CORE-UA 400, Texts and Ideas: Topics—The "Other" Hey, I go to NYU Poly and have space for a few humanities. Since the 1850s, the human sciences have played a complicated role in society, often profoundly influencing government policy, industrial management, marketing efficiency, social welfare, and even human nature itself. SPRING 2020 CORE-UA 400, Texts and Ideas: Topics—God Beginning with the account of Socrates’ trail in Plato’s Apology, we examine what Nietzsche calls the “shadow” of Western thought, the condition of unbelief. We engage questions of identity and representation in terms of race, class, gender, sexuality and species. We explore historical and contemporary efforts to name or define this at once most familiar and strangest of invocations or references: the Being called highest, by many, as eternal, perfectly good, and much else besides. We examine these enduring questions through a wide historical and cultural lens, ranging from ancient Greek philosophy and the Bible to Shakespeare, Marx, and Martin Luther King, to understand and map out competing ideas around the conditions for freedom—and unfreedom—and to theorize the relationship between the individual and the collective, ideas on sovereignty, slavery, the ideal state and the revolutionary nation, and arguments for violence and non-violence. Objectivity is a concept—or an ideal—that frames our understanding of pursuits as diverse as politics, journalism, and science, realms in which we hope to be able to discern the right, the true, and the real. Varsity athletics, intramural sports, and fitness classes are found throughout campus. How might we create and manage a better society? The experience of living in a city is one vital thread that connects us with our ancient, medieval, and early modern ancestors, and that continues to provide a unifying element in millions of our contemporaries’ disparate lives across the globe. Prof. Levene (Classics) [Syllabus] Our aim is to supply conceptual frameworks and historical contexts for this experience by exploring the ways human communities have been theorized and imagined within the Western tradition from classical antiquity through to the Renaissance, particularly the city, conceived since Aristotle as the proper habitat of humankind, and the relationship between the family or household and the state. Variously enigma, responsibility and alter ego of the self, or threat to it, the ‘other’ has been a major preoccupation of Western thought. Prof. Weiler (School of Law) [Syllabus] Starting in antiquity, we consider literature of travel, discovery, and exploration through the medieval period, pause in the 19th century, and then pass on to our own times, reading books by both men and women, and both eastern and western texts. Films: Dreyer's Ordet, and Bergman's Trilogy. Readings include: Henri de Saint-Simon, Auguste Comte, Charles Darwin, E. B. Tylor, Francis Galton, Louis Pasteur, Havelock Ellis, William James, Fredrick Taylor, Bronislaw Malinowski, Ruth Benedict, Julian Huxley, Maria Montessori, Emile Durkheim, J.D. Prof. Miller (French) [Syllabus] FALL 2012 MAP-UA 400 Texts and Ideas: Topics—The Renaissance, New Worlds and Old Prof. Tylus ... journeys, literal and figurative exile, and how one might best leave one’s mark on the world. SPRING 2021 CORE-UA 400, Texts and Ideas: Topics—Sciences of Power How can we tell? Prof. Phone. Reading: Aristotle’s Poetics; Homer’s Odyssey, Sophocles’ Oedipus; Genesis; Mark, Luke, John; Shakespeare’s King Lear; Arabian Nights; Kalidasa; Recognitions of Shakuntala; Voltaire’s Candide; Dickens’ Great Expectations; Auster’s City of Glass, Mahfouz’ Search; Barnes’ Sense of an Ending, excerpts from The Qur’an. Are the soul and the body distinct? FALL 2019 CORE-UA 400, Texts and Ideas: Topics—On Objectivity SPRING 2018 CORE-UA 400, Texts & Ideas: Topics—Attachment, Loss, and the Passage of Time Prof. Street (Philosophy) David Foster Wallace has written that “the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.” One such reality is the fact that our lives unfold in and across time. Reading widely in a variety of literary forms, we ask how different cultures and societies have created forms of identity through inclusion and exclusion, paying particular attention to enduring philosophical, psychological, and political structures that shape our theme across more than twenty-five centuries. © New York University. What is meaning? Must self and other necessarily devolve into an ‘us’ and ‘them’? Prof. Jauernig (Philosophy) [Syllabus] How do these texts let us understand the production of meaning following disaster? Humor can be inclusive, a binding force, but also exclusive, at the expense of outsiders. What standards exist or have existed for knowledge about the past, about the self or about others, and about the world around us? IgglePiggle69420. Texts and Ideas is the name for a diverse group of humanities courses that study challenging, influential texts about big ideas: freedom, the nature of the soul, the place of humans in the natural and animal world, beauty, citizenship, morality, the imagination, the use of the past, and many more. Carl Theodor Dreyer's Ordet and Ingmar Bergman's Trilogy will be screened and discussed as well. The themes are all of relevance to contemporary issues: communal responsibility vs. individual autonomy, ecological crisis, ethics vs. religion, freedom of speech and thought, genocide, rule of law and civil disobedience, the Other, punishment and retribution, religious intolerance, sanctity of human life, sex and gender. Readings: Book of J; Genesis, Exodus, Isaiah; Matthew, Galatians; Gospel of Mary; Euripides' Medea; Aristophanes' Clouds; Plato's Apology and Republic; Xenophon's Apology; Augustine's Confessions; Marx and Engels’ Communist Manifesto; Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling; Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality; Freud's "Case of Miss Lucy R." and Civilization and Its Discontents. Finally, we consider literary and philosophical works from the twentieth century, including selections by Lu Xun, Mao Zedong, and the Nobel prize-winning writers Gao Xingjian and Mo Yan. Prof. Renzi (Classics)
[Syllabus] But what happens when those demands are inconsistent? How is the other known? save hide report. This obsession with reconstituting prehistory is closely tied to modern colonialism and racism, postwar universalism, and even anticolonialism, and also speaks ways that European and American intellectuals and scientists produce knowledge about humanity. We experience the events of our past as receding, the events of our future as approaching, and the present moment as where we inevitably are. Note: Previously listed as Conversations of the West. We also experience time’s march as inexorable: whether we like it or not, the thought “This too shall pass” is always true. Find a topic you might enjoy and give it a shot. We also examine theories of humor and laughter from Plato and Aristotle down to modern theories by Hobbes, Bergson, Freud, and others, using these to help understand and interpret—without completely ruining—what is so amusing in the humorous works themselves. We note that in recent times the figure of the other, hitherto silent and effaced, has made claims to speak, indeed to speak back, disrupting the realms of knowledge and the social in radical ways. All rights reserved. In difficult times, this thought can bring relief: whatever hardship one is facing, it won’t last. Beginning with several foundational works from antiquity, which will provide us with a grounding in the three major philosophical traditions of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism, we then turn to some of the most important literary works from the Ming and Qing dynasties, including Journey to the West, The Peony Pavilion, and Dream of the Red Chamber. 0 comments. I’m almost done with my cores, but I’m really dreading these two requirements because I’ve been hearing complaints about how much work the classes are. Each week pairs a core reading from the Hebrew Bible or the Christian New Testament with another work in the Western tradition to explore a broad range of complex normative issues. Fall 2010 V55.0400 Texts and Ideas: Topics - Animal Humans Prof. Lezra (Comparative Literature) syllabus "One might go so far as to define man as a creature that has failed in its effort to keep its animalness…" So writes the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk. What does it mean for an individual or a community to “have a voice” and make it heard? Laughter is sometimes said to result from incongruities, other times to depend on the safe expression of repressed desires, still again to reflect a sense of superiority—and much more. Equally we are alert to developments that signal the slow but steady and progressive deconstruction of this structure. as well as through analysis and performance of comedic text. How are bodies fashioned and produced by personal, cultural and political practices such as dieting, body modification, imprisonment and torture, and medicine? Supposedly a moment when humanity can be glimpsed at its most basic, today it is most often identified with a movement “out of Africa,” but also with claims about the origin of language, nationalist theories of a communal purity, theories of representation in cave art, and theories about tool use and human posture. Readings: Book of J; Genesis, Exodus, Isaiah; Matthew, Galatians; Gospel of Mary; Euripides' Medea; Aristophanes' Clouds; Plato's Apology and Republic; Xenophon's Apology; Augustine's Confessions; Marx and Engels’ Communist Manifesto; Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling; Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality; Freud's "Case of Miss Lucy R." and Civilization and Its Discontents. FALL 2020 CORE-UA 400, Texts and Ideas: Topics—Justice and Injustice in Biblical Narrative and Western Thought FALL 2019 CORE-UA 400, Texts and Ideas: Topics—Meaning All rights reserved. Tracing an arc from the ancient world to the present day, we then see how the epistemology of modern storytelling, across cultures, disturbs the familiar patterns of clear and comforting revelation associated (often mistakenly, in fact) with classic genres. It exists in all literatures independently of Aristotle’s prescriptions. 5/15: Lab weights The weights of the individual labs are now on the labs page. We read and discuss important works of literature, philosophy, and political thought from the ancient world to the present that speak to these questions in some way or another. FALL 2020 CORE-UA 400, Texts and Ideas: Topics—Utopias and Dystopias Prof. Kotsonis (History/Russian & Slavic Studies) []Considers how writers and other artists over the past two millennia have imagined perfect and just societies and, more recently, how they imagined perfectly unjust and nightmarish societies and implied what would restore them. Prof. Siskin (English) [Syllabus] 100% Upvoted. What or who is–or was–“God”? I still need to complete my Texts and Ideas requirement for CAS. Readings include: Aristophanes’ Clouds; Plato’s Apology; Xenophon’s Apology; Sophocles’ Antigone; selections from Hebrew Bible, Christian New Testament, Aristotle, Maimonides, Aquinas, Luther, Kant, Kierkegaard, Mill, Thoreau, Kafka, Camus. The "Renaissance" understands itself as an age bearing witness to the "rebirth" of classical antiquity. Whose discernment counts as objective? Reading from the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures, Sophocles, Plato, Augustine, Montesquieu, Pope, Voltaire, and Rousseau. And how do our attitudes towards meaning shape who we think we are? We have expectations of the world and even fantasies of other ones. Across all cultures, stories are fashioned to withhold information at first, holding our attention through suspense. From the first moments of Western literature those questions are explored; they became all the more insistent in the unprecedented political, social, intellectual and economic upheavals of the 19th century. Our first task is to look at antiquity; our second, to explore the ways in which European culture between 1400 and 1700 invents the modern by making itself conversant with the past. Hype. We explore historical and contemporary efforts to name or define this at once most familiar and strangest of invocations or references: the Being called highest, by many, as eternal, perfectly good, and much else besides. NYU IT Service Desk is available 24x7. Prof. Jarcho (English) [Syllabus] What is the voice an index of? Considers how writers and other artists over the past two millennia have imagined perfect and just societies and, more recently, how they imagined perfectly unjust and nightmarish societies and implied what would restore them. SPRING 2020 CORE-UA 403, Texts and Ideas: Anqituity & the Enlightenment How do these answers evolve over time and across cultures? This dynamic movement from ignorance to knowledge, which creates meaning, is deemed essential in the Poetics of Aristotle, especially when it takes the form of the the recognition of something previously unknown. What has it, and how do the things that have it get it? Thus women, ‘natives’, minorities, ‘deviants’, or subalterns claim to speak as others. Indeed, these questions arise naturally for every one of us who approaches life in a reflective way and thinks about how to make the best of it. This sort of discovery is essential to both high literature and low, across genres, epochs, and artistic media. CORE-UA 04xx Text and Ideas. Readings include works and selections from Clement, Damascius, Anselm, Aquinas, al-Ghazali, Maimonides, Levinas, Edith Stein, Paul Celan, Jean-Luc Marion, Gwenaëlle Aubry, Quentin Meillassoux, Avishai Margalit, Moshe Halbertal, John L. Mackey, Garry Gutting. The “justification of the ways of God to men” was also an ancient project, but it was not until the eighteenth century that the task of defending God, explaining disaster, or finding meaning in a world in which there is horrific suffering got a name: theodicy. Must knowledge of the other always be a form of colonization, domination and violence, or can it be pursued as disinterested truth? In what ways are the body and social status connected? Or is it true, as a character declares in Dostoevsky’s novel, The Brothers Karamazov, that “without God, everything is permitted.” Readings from Plato, Lucretius, Augustine, Anselm of Canterbury, Montaigne, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Bacon, Pascal, Hume, Diderot, Sade, Shelley, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, and Freud. Readings: Book of J; Genesis, Exodus, Isaiah; Matthew, Galatians; Gospel of Mary; Euripides' Medea; Aristophanes' Clouds; Plato's Apology and Republic; Xenophon's Apology; Augustine's Confessions; Marx and Engels’ Communist Manifesto; Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling; Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality; Freud's "Case of Miss Lucy R." and Civilization and Its Discontents. FALL 2020 CORE-UA 403, Texts and Ideas: Antiquity & the Enlightenment NYU Classes (NYU IT) NYU Classes (Shanghai) Support Partner Contact Form (authorization required) Training for Faculty & Staff. Films: Modern Times (1936), Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956, 1996), Les Maître Fous (1955), La Belle et la Bête/Beauty and the Beast (1946, 1991). They then produce disclosures at crucial moments of denouement. This class explores the acting of comedy through theater games that focus on comedic techniques such as quick change, neurosis, obsession, shift of status, body part out of control, etc. This sort of discovery is essential to both high literature and low, across genres, epochs, and artistic media. Please email if not urgent. Tracing an arc from the ancient world to the present day, we then see how the epistemology of modern storytelling, across cultures, disturbs the familiar patterns of clear and comforting revelation associated (often mistakenly, in fact) with classic genres. We study the meaning of texts, primarily, but not always, texts involving language, in two different ways: by engaging with philosophers and linguists who have introduced influential ways to think about meaning, from Aristotle to Francis Bacon to Wittgenstein to David Lewis; and by showing how these various conceptions of meaning provide new ways of interpreting important texts, from prehistoric cave paintings to music to comics and computer programs. All the best intentions and brilliant ideas in the world are for naught if they aren’t communicated clearly. And what or who might “He” still–or yet again–become, for us, whether we consider ourselves true believers or not? We experience the events of our past as receding, the events of our future as approaching, and the present moment as where we inevitably are. CORE-UA 07xx Expressive Culture 16 Foundations of Scientific Inquiry. Recommendations for Texts & Ideas / Cultures & Contexts I’m just a small idiot trying to survive the winter. Median: 68. Readings include the canonical—from Plato, Aristotle, Vergil, Dante, Boccaccio, More, Shakespeare—to texts from Christine de Pizan and Moderata Fontelong, marginalized from the canon and only now becoming visible. We are aiming to file letter grades by Monday evening. “Renaissance” means rebirth, and during this period Italian intellectuals, writers, painters and sculptures saw themselves as contributing to a rebirth of Western culture by turning for inspiration to the philosophical, literary, and artistic legacy of the ancient world. Teacher was very engaging, material was a lot but interesting, papers were always interdisciplinary, and we had the … Fake news. The class … Reading a wide range of literary texts in which main characters experience growth and transformation through a journey, whether physical or spiritual, we have our own journey across time, focusing on antiquity (Homer’s Odyssey, Augustine’s Confessions) and the Middle Ages (Beowulf, Dante’s Divine Comedy). We study and compare the sciences through which "the human" came to be conceived as a plastic object available for study, experimentation, representation, and transformation, focusing on particular moments in the history of psychology, evolutionary theory, social hygiene and population science, statistics, anthropology, eugenics, cybernetics, neo-behaviorism, and neuroscience. Indeed, the spectrum of meanings (literal and metaphorical) across which the notion of voice moves is wide and raises many questions: To what extent is the voice truly peculiar to the individual? How have the concepts of freedom, slavery, and oppression been articulated by thinkers from Plato to Gandhi? The … IT Support. In art, philosophy, and literature it also assumes the task of reconciling the cultural inheritance of Greece and Rome with the Christian tradition (itself entering into a moment of crisis as allegiances split between the Catholic church and the "reformed" church of Luther and Calvin). Was Socrates? Jarcho: “We went through several units contesting what the ‘normal’ is. Our modes of inquiry will be literary, historical, philosophic and cultural, enabling students to engage with ideas across a range of disciplines and providing a strong basis for further humanistic inquiry. Readings: Luke, Acts, Romans; Livy’s History of Rome; Plutarch’s Lives; Cicero; Vergil’s Aeneid; Apuleius’ Golden Ass; Augustine’s Confessions; Dante’s Inferno; Boccaccio’s Decameron; Vasari’s Lives; Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy and Prince; Cellini’s Life. SPRING 2021 CORE-UA 400, Texts and Ideas: Topics—Matters of Voice Prof. Gitelman (English) [Syllabus] Readings cross subjects and genres, from treatises of natural philosophy to novels and verse, to provide a scope adequate to the astonishing range of human explanations. Our study includes Richard Wagner’s remarkable music-drama The Ring of the Nibelung, perhaps the most significant and influential art-work of the era (studied primarily as a text, though there will be opportunities to hear the music as well). Focuses on the understanding of knowledge and truth in antiquity and the Enlightenment. Other readings include selections from the Hebrew Scriptures and Christian New Testament, Homer’s Iliad, Sophocles’ Antigone, Plato’s Gorgias, Vergil’s Aeneid, poetry by (among others) Tennyson and Matthew Arnold, Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy, Wagner’s Art and Revolution, Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morality. Beginning with the collision of the "Judeo-Christian" and Hellenistic traditions and their encounter in the Christian Scriptures and Augustine, we see Enlightenment thinkers grapple with the fusion of these traditions they had inherited, subjecting both to serious criticism and revising them as a new tradition—science and technology—rises to prominence. 2 years ago. SPRING 2020 CORE-UA 402, Texts and Ideas: Antiquity and the Renaissance Prof. Rubenstein (Hebrew & Judaic Studies) [Syllabus] Sort by. SPRING 2020 CORE-UA 400, Texts and Ideas: Topics—Life as a Journey Beginning with the pivotal social and scientific understanding of the body in the ancient Mediterranean, we trace the evolution of theories of human physiology and their reception in medieval Christian and Muslim thought. Urban life is a constant environment and stimulus, whether you find yourself in New York, Florence, Accra, or Shanghai. 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