Classes

FRS 139: Marx in the 21st Century
Semester:
Fall
Offered:
2018

In this moment of unprecedented economic inequality and populist backlash, the time seems ripe for a return to Marx. But what would such a 21st-century Marxism look like? How would Marx understand (or not understand) Trump and Brexit? How might Marxist thought need to be updated in light of the present? What can Marxism learn from other…

FRS 134: The Way We Watch Now: "Quality Television," Critical Theory, and Contemporary Culture
Semester:
Spring
Offered:
2017

In the last 15 or so years, the status of television within the broader cultural landscape has undergone a radical shift. In the wake of so-called "quality television" programs like The Wire and Breaking Bad, television — once derided as a form of mere entertainment — is now arguably the paradigmatic art form of contemporary US culture. In…

ECS 310/GER 335/COM 313/ENG 324: European Romanticism and War
Semester:
Fall
Offered:
2016

Counter to received wisdom, it is in the Romantic period, not the 20th century, that war assumes its modern form as “total war.” In this seminar, we will thus examine how literary, philosophical, and artistic Romanticisms grapple with this new phenomenon. Subtopics include: war, media, and technology; landscape, spectatorship, and the sublime;…

ECS 395/COM 373/GER 395 Crises of European Subjectivity, 1945-1961
Semester:
Spring
Offered:
2016

This course examines the crisis of European subjectivity in the wake of WWII and the Holocaust. Such a crisis implicates not merely the concepts of Europe and the subject, but the very concept of the concept and thus entails a transformation of thought itself. Topics include crises of the subject and the human; the question of technology; the…

ECS 301/EPS 301
Semester:
Fall
Offered:
2015

Co-taught by Professors Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz (Comparative Literature) and Anson Rabinbach (History), and drawing on the expertise of distinguished Princeton faculty and visitors, this seminar aims to provide a broad, multidiciplinary perspective on turning points in European culture from the early modern period to the present. It serves as…

Ecstasies of Time
Semester:
Fall
Offered:
2014
Topics: Ecstasies of Time (3 credits)
16:470:672:01
Cross-listed with Comparative Literature 16:470:516:01 and Philosophy 16:730:536:01
Professor Michael Levine

Co-instructed by Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz W 4:30 - 7:10pm, 172…