Love and Other Useless Pursuits
WRCT 304
Fall 2022
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01
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| Crosslisting:
COL 312 |
What is love? Is it an emotion? A judgment? A way of coming to know ourselves or others? What is the point of love? Does it have a defined object, a purpose, or an end? Does it have a logic or does it defy logic? What good or evil can it do in the world? "Love and Other Useless Pursuits" is an upper level seminar that approaches these questions through a comparative history of literature, literary theory, and philosophical aesthetics. The authors we read will likely include Plato, Andreas Capellanus, Tullia d'Aragona, Margaret Cavendish, Immanuel Kant, Stendhal, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcel Proust, Djuna Barnes, James Baldwin, Simone de Beauvoir, bell hooks, and Lauren Berlant. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA WRCT |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
| SECTION 01 |
| Instructor(s): Emre,Merve Gul Times: ..T.... 01:20PM-04:10PM; Location: 116MTV108; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 12 | | SR major: X | JR major: X | | |
| | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 4 | JR non-major: 4 | SO: 4 | FR: 0 |
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