Meets the following requirements: HS   

This is a close textual study of two writers whose works have been both influential and widely misunderstood.  The first half of the course covers The Birth of Tragedy, Beyond Good and Evil, and selections from Zarathustra.  Freud readings are Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, and Civilization and its Discontents.  We work seminar-style with student presentations on the material.  In addition, everyone chooses a research topic that widens the material into the contemporary social context, such as Nietzsche and anti-Semitism, Freud and the Feminist Critique, irrational and unconscious elements in modern art or literature, or later influences such as existentialism, Foucault, and deconstruction.  One or two class reports, term paper. 

Level:  Advanced.  *HS*