English 250

Research Seminar: Theory, Secular and Post-secular


Section Semester Instructor Time Location Course Areas
2 Spring 2006 Nealon, Christopher
 Tues. 3:30-6:30 201 Wheeler Graduate Courses

Book List
"Schleiermacher, On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers

Kierkegaard, Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard

Durkheim, Elementary Forms Of The Religious Life

James, Varieties of Religious Experience

Sartre, No Exit & Other Plays

Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian

Derrida, Acts of Religion

Agamben, The Time That Remains: A Commentary On The Letter To The Romans

Conolley, Why I Am Not a Secularist"
Description

"Do we still live in a ""secular era""? Did we ever? By what gestures has ""the secular"" become an unmarked or habitual term? This course will offer one genealogy of secularism in the west -- we will trace the articulation of its terms in philosophy, criticism, and ""theory"" -- beginning with Kant and turning, at term's end, both to contemporary ""political theology"" and to political writing on religion and secularism today. "

Other Recent Sections of This Course

Fall, 2013
250/1 Research Seminar: Critical and Peripheral Realisms Lye, Colleen
250/2 Research Seminar: Sensory Aesthetics in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Poetry and Drama Nolan, Maura
250/3 Research Seminar: The Romantic Novel and the History of Man Duncan, Ian
Spring, 2013
250/1 Research Seminar: Visuality, Textuality, Cultural Memory Abel, Elizabeth
250/2 Research Seminar: Mass Entertainment Knapp, Jeffrey
Fall, 2012
250/1 Research Seminars: Victorian Cultural Studies Puckett, Kent
250/2 Research Seminars Marno, David
250/3 Research Seminars: Reconstruction Wagner, Bryan
Spring, 2012
250/1 Research Seminar: Marxist Literary Theory Gonzalez, Marcial
250/2 Research Seminar: Renaissance Things Landreth, David
250/3 Research Seminar: Everyday Postcoloniality Premnath, Gautam
Fall, 2011
250/1 Research Seminar: Marxist Literary Theory Gonzalez, Marcial
250/2 Research Seminar: Victorian Poetry Puckett, Kent
250/3 Research Seminar: The Recovery Imperative Best, Stephen M.
250/4 Research Seminar: Eros and Expression Turner, James Grantham
Spring, 2011
250/1 Research Seminar: Bondage and Freedom in Early Modern English Culture Arnold, Oliver
250/2 Research Seminar: Modernism and the End of Europe: 1914-45 Blanton, Dan
250/3 Research Seminar: The Transnational and Comparative Turns in American Ethnic Literature Lee, Steven Sunwoo
250/4 Research Seminar: Melville's Forms Otter, Samuel
250/5 Research Seminar: Writing and Reading Cultural History: Ireland in the 1930s Pine, Emily

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