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Course description

Through close reading of key texts, this course examines the parameters that inform the way that we judge and appraise. The chosen texts face up to and explore the problems of interpretation. Running through them is a distrust of the promises made by Enlightenment projects. These texts often express pessimism about the possibility of knowing the truth or our potential to act as a moral agent - a self-doubt made all the more palpable in the wake of modern genocide and the Holocaust. Together these texts undertake a profound questioning of what it means to be human and how we make sense of the world.