Germany and its European Context

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LEC #	TOPICS
1	Introduction
2	Siegert, Hubertus. Berlin Babylon. (In-class screening) Pinder, John. “What the EU is for,” “Single Market, Single Currency,” and “The EU and the Rest of Europe.” Nietzsche, Friedrich. “The Four Great Errors.”
3	Byatt, A. S. Babel Tower. Nietzsche, Friedrich. “The ‘Improvers of Mankind’”
4	Byatt, A. S. Babel Tower. Noble, Michael J. “A Tower of Tongues.”
5	Nietzsche, Friedrich. On the Advantages and Disadvantages of History for Life.
6	Hermann, Judith. “This Side of the Oder.” Kristeva, Julia. “Europe Divided: Politics, Ethics, Religion.”
7	Schulze, Ingo. Simple Stories. Wolf, Christa. “The Leftover Baggage of German History: Correspondence with Jürgen Habermas.”
8	Wolf, Christa. Cassandra 3-138. Bahro, Rudolf. “From Red to Green: Industrialism and Cultural Revolution.”
9	Strauß, Botho. “Idiots of the Immediate.” Sloterdijk, Peter. “Cynicism — The Twilight of False Consciousness.”
10	Vinterberg, Thomas. The Celebration. (In-class screening) Aspects of Dogma: p.o.v. Foucault, Michel. “What is an Author?”
11	Houellebecq, Michel. The Elementary Particles. Piper, Andrew. “Project Übermensch: German Intellectuals Confront Genetic Engineering.”
12	Beuys, Joseph. Artworks_._ (In-class screening) Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. “Beuys: The Twilight of the Idol.”
13	Kristeva, Julia. “Europhilia-Europhobia.”