Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Studies
- Code
- BMI-ANGD17-CI10aE.05
- Title
- English Literature: A Theoretical Approach - Foundations and Perspectives: Reading by Hannah Arendt
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- Published semester
- 2025/26/2
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- en
- Learning outcomes
- The course aims to explore the question of whether Hannah Arendt's political philosophy can inspire literary studies. We will read Hannah Arendt and 21st-century critics, focusing on the problem of "storytelling".
- Course content
- Introduction Arendt, Hannah. excerpts from Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963) Felman, Shoshana. "A Ghosts in the House of Justice: Death and the Language of the Law." Yale JL & Human. 13 (2001): 241; Cathy Caruth “The Body’s Testimony” Paragraph , November 2017, Vol. 40, No. 3, Literature and Psychoanalysis: Open Questions (November 2017), pp. 259-278 Melville, Herman Billy Budd, Sailor (1891), Arendt: excerpts from On Revolution (1963) Sedgwick, Eve. from The Epistemology of the Closet, University of California Press, 1990; “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading; or, You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Introduction is About You” (1997) Cavarero, Adriana, from: For More than One Voice, A Philosophy of Vocal Expression. Stanford University Press, 2005; Inclinations, A Critique of Rectitude, Stanford UP, 2016. BREAK Butler, Judith, from Precarious. Life. The Powers of Mourning and Violence. Verso. 2004. pp. 19-23; pp. 32-46. Arendt, Hannah from The Origins of Totalitarianism: “The Perplexities of the Rights of Man”; from The Human Condition (the Greek Polis) Ranciere, Jacques, from Dissensus: On Politics of Aesthetics (2010); from Disagreement (1999) Hartman, Saidiya. "Venus in Two Acts." Small Axe, vol. 12 no. 2, 2008, p. 1-14. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/241115. Arendt, “What is Permitted to Jove….”; “Beyond personal Frustration: On Bertold Brecht’s Poetry” in Reflections on Literature and Culture… TEST DISCUSSION
- Assessment method
- Students have to read the set texts before the class and answer questions prepared in advance by the instructor. The classes consist of the free and critical discussion of the texts, to which everyone has to contribute. The end-term test consists of open-ended questions related to the texts students had to read during the semester.
- Bibliography
- Arendt, Hannah. from Eichmann in Jerusalem from On Revolution from The Origins of Totalitarianism from The Human Condition from Reflections on Literature and Culture Felman, Shoshana. "A Ghosts in the House of Justice: Death and the Language of the Law." Yale JL & Human. 13 (2001): 241 Caruth, Cathy “The Body’s Testimony” Paragraph , November 2017, Vol. 40, No. 3, Literature and Psychoanalysis: Open Questions (November 2017), pp. 259-278 Melville, Herman Billy Budd, Sailor (1891) Sedgwick, Eve. from The Epistemology of the Closet, University of California Press, 1990; “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading”; (1997) Cavarero, Adriana, from: For More than One Voice, (2005); Inclinations, A Critique of Rectitude, (2016.) Butler, Judith. from Precarious. Life. The Powers of Mourning and Violence. (2004.) Ranciere, Jacques. from Dissensus: On Politics of Aesthetics (2010); from Disagreement (1999) Hartman, Saidiya. "Venus in Two Acts." Small Axe, vol. 12 no. 2, 2008, p. 1-14. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/241115.