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The oldest attested stages of the Germanic language family, including Gothic, Old Norse, Old Saxon, Old English, Old Frisian, Old Low Franconian (Old Dutch), and Old High German. The linguistic interrelationships, prehistory, Germanic tribal groupings, and literature.

Preference to sophomores. The letters and diaries of individuals who resisted Nazi oppression and paid with their lives. Readings include the Scholl diaries, Bonhoeffer¿s letters and his Ethics, and letter exchanges from other crucial figures. No knowledge of German required; students may read texts in original if able.

European culture long relied on a narrative of inexorable human progress. Starting in the 19th century, this triumphalist narrative was shadowed by another tradition that rejected such trust in progress. The pessimistic tradition in Europe in literature, philosophy, the study of history, anthropology, and psychology; the distinction between pessimism in the fields of morality, culture, and intellectual life. Authors include Giacomo Leopardi, Arthur Schopenhauer, Lautréamont, T. S. Eliot, and Sigmund Freud.

For undergraduates. Changing ideas of human self-determination in works by Luther, Goethe, Kant, Kleist, Hegel, Heine, Marx, Keller, Nietzsche, Adorno, and Horkheimer. Students may read assignments in English or in German. Discussion in English.

History of German cinema in the Weimar Republic, Nazi era, and the immediate aftermath of WWII. German thought, political valences, and social potential as portrayed in film.

Modern anti-heroes who assert themselves through feats of reduction and retreat. Writers include Rousseau, Tieck, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Dostoevsky, and Kafka.

Genealogy of philosophical misogyny in 19th- and 20th-century German thought from German idealism. Authors include Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Weininger, and the George circle. In English.

Interiority and the interior as focal points of 19th-century Europe. Domestic space, and its political dimensions and structures of feeling in 19th-century German literature, from the romance to the detective novel. Ideology of domesticity in German music, design, architecture, visual art, and science of the period. In German.

The afterlives of mythological themes from the operas and music dramas of Richard Wagner (The Flying Dutchman, Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, Ring Cycle, Parsifal) in literature, modernist aesthetics, fascist politics, film, philosophy, and contemporary media.