The Human Condition: Selected Twentieth Century Perspectives
RELIGION 1596
Subject & Catalog Number
Jointly Offered with:
Harvard Divinity School as HDS 2508
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Description
This seminar will consider philosophical approaches and perspectives offered by five Western twentieth-century thinkers on ethics, religion, politics, and our (self) understanding as human beings. Works from Du Bois, Arendt, Fanon, Levinas, and Ricoeur will taken up to interrogate phenomenological, social, political and religious interpretations of the human condition, and our corresponding possibilities and responsibilities. Background in philosophy or theology is suggested but not required. Offered jointly by Harvard Divinity School as HDS 2508.
School
Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits
4
Cross Reg
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
Department
Religion, The Study of
Course Component
Seminar
Subject
Religion
Grading Basis
FAS Letter Graded
General Education
N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data
N/A
Divisional Distribution
Arts and Humanities
Course Level
For Undergraduate and Graduate Students
