The Literature of Crisis
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Most human lives contain major turning points: crises that transform an individual’s future development. On a much larger scale, cultures undergo crises too: political, intellectual, and religious changes that alter forever the course of human history. This course will focus on both kinds of crisis.
We will consider the personal upheavals brought about by the political, social, religious, and erotic ties of our authors and their characters. These crises were pivotal moments which dramatically altered the trajectory of their lives. Moreover, each of our texts reflects not only a personal crisis but also the turbulence of its cultural environment; and each develops a unique strategy for coping with it.
In addition to offering a unique introduction to these great texts, this course aims to provide a conceptual and historical framework enabling you to address crises in your own life and in the modern world with a greater degree of understanding and, perhaps, a clearer sense of how to survive them.
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Your Thinking About Faith, Reason and Free Will Not Be The Same After Listening To These Lectures, July 04, 2008
Reviewer: llyon
I cherish these lectures. I attended college in the '60's and didn't have the maturity to understand how someone who lived so long ago, who didn't understand that the earth went around the sun or any of the other scientific achievements of our current age could have anything valuable to say to me. I realize now that people struggled then as now with basically the same issues and crisis as now and treatment by the ancients are works of beauty.
Professor's McCall and Evans are master teachers who acted more like guides through the material. I've listened to these lectures several times and learn something new each time. Like a good book where the characters become your friends, you will not want this class to end.
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Literature of Crisis Syllabus
Author: Marsh McCall and Martin Evans
Thu, Aug 30, 2007
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The Literature of Crisis Course Introduction
Author: Martin Evans and Marsh McCall
Fri, Mar 30, 2007
The Literature of Crisis - Audio - The Literature of Crisis Course Introduction - Most human lives contain major turning points: crises that transform an individual’s future development. On a much larger scale, cultures undergo crises too: political, intellectual, and religious changes that alter forever the course of human history. Th
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Course Ideas Overview
Author: Martin Evans
Fri, Mar 30, 2007
The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Course Ideas Overview - The nature of Humanities in general and the role of literary studies in particular. The historical origins of the Humanist movement. Theories concerning the unchanging human heart. Seeing the world from a new emotional and intellectual center.
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Plato, The Apology, Crito
Author: Marsh McCall
Fri, Mar 30, 2007
The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Plato, The Apology, Crito - Introduction to early Greek philosophy and education. The sophists. The career of Socrates. The Peloponnesian War. Socrates' trial and defense speech. Socrates' imprisonment. What do you owe to the laws of your country? Socrates' view of death.
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Plato, The Apology, Crito Day II
Author: Marsh McCall
Fri, Mar 30, 2007
The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Plato, The Apology, Crito Day II - Introduction to early Greek philosophy and education. The sophists. The career of Socrates. The Peloponnesian War. Socrates' trial and defense speech. Socrates' imprisonment. What do you owe to the laws of your country? Socrates' view of death.
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Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy
Author: Martin Evans
Fri, Mar 30, 2007
The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy - The collapse of the Western empire and the transfer of the capital from Rome to Ravenna. Lady Philosophy's role and Boethius's arguments concerning predestination versus free will and the nature of the good.
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Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy Day II
Author: Martin Evans
Fri, Mar 30, 2007
The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy Day II - The collapse of the Western empire and the transfer of the capital from Rome to Ravenna. Lady Philosophy's role and Boethius's arguments concerning predestination versus free will and the nature of the good.
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Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy Day III
Author: Martin Evans
Fri, Mar 30, 2007
The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy Day III - The collapse of the Western empire and the transfer of the capital from Rome to Ravenna. Lady Philosophy's role and Boethius's arguments concerning predestination versus free will and the nature of the good.
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Sophocles, Oedipus the King
Author: Marsh McCall
Fri, Mar 30, 2007
The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Sophocles, Oedipus the King - Introduction to Periclean Athens. The function of theater in Athenian society. Oedipus the King and the Peloponnesian War. Guilt and innocence, fate and free choice. Aristotle's "fatal flaw."
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Sophocles, Oedipus the King Day II
Author: Marsh McCall
Fri, Mar 30, 2007
The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Sophocles, Oedipus the King Day II - Introduction to Periclean Athens. The function of theater in Athenian society. Oedipus the King and the Peloponnesian War. Guilt and innocence, fate and free choice. Aristotle's "fatal flaw."
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Sophocles, Oedipus the King Day III
Author: Marsh McCall
Fri, Mar 30, 2007
The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Sophocles, Oedipus the King Day III - Introduction to Periclean Athens. The function of theater in Athenian society. Oedipus the King and the Peloponnesian War. Guilt and innocence, fate and free choice. Aristotle's "fatal flaw."
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Shakespeare, Hamlet
Author: Martin Evans
Fri, Mar 30, 2007
The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Shakespeare, Hamlet - The intellectual crisis of the sixteenth century -- the three revolutions. The problem of Hamlet. The theological and moral solutions. The Oedipal interpretation of Hamlet. The aesthetic solution and an alternative.
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Shakespeare, Hamlet Day II
Author: Martin Evans
Fri, Mar 30, 2007
The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Shakespeare, Hamlet Day II - The intellectual crisis of the sixteenth century—the three revolutions. The
problem of Hamlet. The theological and moral solutions. Sigmund Freud's
interpretation of the Oedipus myth. The Oedipal interpretation of Hamlet.
The aesthetic solution and an
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Shakespeare, Hamlet Day III
Author: Martin Evans
Fri, Mar 30, 2007
The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Shakespeare, Hamlet Day III - The intellectual crisis of the sixteenth century -- the three revolutions. The problem of Hamlet. The theological and moral solutions. The Oedipal interpretation of Hamlet. The aesthetic solution and an alternative.
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Vergil, Aeneid
Author: Marsh McCall
Fri, Mar 30, 2007
The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Vergil, Aeneid - The impact of Roman imperialism, Greek epic, and Stoic philosophy on Vergil's poem. The limits and costs of power as the Aeneid presents them. The interactions between fate and free choice in Aeneas's experience. Optimism and pessimism in the Aeneid.
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Vergil, Aeneid Day II
Author: Marsh McCall
Fri, Mar 30, 2007
The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Vergil, Aeneid Day II - The impact of Roman imperialism, Greek epic, and Stoic philosophy on Vergil's poem. The limits and costs of power as the Aeneid presents them. The interactions between fate and free choice in Aeneas's experience. Optimism and pessimism in the Aeneid.
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Vergil, Aeneid Day III
Author: Marsh McCall
Fri, Mar 30, 2007
The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Vergil, Aeneid Day III - The impact of Roman imperialism, Greek epic, and Stoic philosophy on Vergil's poem. The limits and costs of power as the Aeneid presents them. The interactions between fate and free choice in Aeneas's experience. Optimism and pessimism in the Aeneid.
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Vergil, Aeneid Day IV
Author: Marsh McCall
Fri, Mar 30, 2007
The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Vergil, Aeneid Day IV - The impact of Roman imperialism, Greek epic, and Stoic philosophy on Vergil's poem. The limits and costs of power as the Aeneid presents them. The interactions between fate and free choice in Aeneas's experience. Optimism and pessimism in the Aeneid.
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Voltaire, Candide
Author: Martin Evans
Fri, Mar 30, 2007
The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Voltaire, Candide - Voltaire's text as a re-working of classical and renaissance epic traditions. The Lisbon earthquake and its effect on Voltaire's belief system. Three solutions to the problem of evil. Candide as a critique of Optimism and Manichaeism. Voltaire's attitude
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Voltaire, Candide Day II, Course Finale
Author: Martin Evans
Fri, Mar 30, 2007
The Literature of Crisis - Audio - Voltaire, Candide Day II, Course Finale - Voltaire's text as a re-working of classical and renaissance epic traditions. The Lisbon earthquake and its effect on Voltaire's belief system. Three solutions to the problem of evil. Candide as a critique of Optimism and Manichaeism. Voltaire's attitude
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