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Shakespeare's Histories (English and History)
This course is based on a reading of the history plays - as expansively defined – the Henriad, Coriolanus, Henry VIII - in the context of other early modern works treating such themes as civil war, imperial ambition, monarchy, and political "popularity." We will also consult recent trends in literary critical and historiographical treatments of the early modern literary sense of the past. In addition to the "history" and "roman" plays, early texts may include Bacon, Hollinshed, and Virgil. This course is open to all students in Humanities
Interpretive Inquiry: Image, Text, Representation, and Practice (Transdisciplinary)
This course will focus on the nature of interpretive inquiry in a range of disciplines including Art, Cultural Studies, English, History, Music, Philosophy, Religion, Psychology and other disciplines that use non-quantitative methodologies. This course is intended to provide an over-view of the many ways faculty from these disciplines define their own research in the context of a range of methodological practices. In this course, students from different disciplines will work on collaborative projects
Seminar on Theodicy: Leibniz and Malebranche on Nature and Grace (Philosophy)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) coined the term “theodicy” to refer to the project of reconciling the perfection of the Creator with the presence of evil and imperfection in his creation. Leibniz also famously argued in his Essais de Théodicée (1710) that the actual world is the “best of all possible worlds.” Leibniz’s contemporary, Nicolas Malebranche (1638–1715) develops a similar theodicean project, minus the normative claim. We will examine the theories of nature and grace developed by Leibniz and Malebranche (with some attention to the critical intermediary Antoine Arnauld), in an attempt to trace the assumptions and arguments that shaped these great Post-Cartesian philosophical systems.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) coined the term “theodicy” to refer to the project of reconciling the perfection of the Creator with the presence of evil and imperfection in his creation. Leibniz also famously argued in his Essais de Théodicée (1710) that the actual world is the “best of all possible worlds.” Leibniz’s contemporary, Nicolas Malebranche (1638–1715) develops a similar theodicean project, minus the normative claim. We will examine the theories of nature and grace developed by Leibniz and Malebranche (with some attention to the critical intermediary Antoine Arnauld), in an attempt to trace the assumptions and arguments that shaped these great Post-Cartesian philosophical systems.
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