My summer 6-week Existentialist Philosophy and Literature class, designed and taught for Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, is now nearing the end of its first week. We are spending about five of those weeks going through selections from 10 key authors in the existentialist movement. One of the thinkers we are hitting early on - next week in fact - is Fyodor Dostoevsky.
I've assigned the students Part 1 of
Notes From Underground, with a chapter from
The Brothers Karamazov (The...
Published on May 17, 2019 20:03