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Finitude in Philosophy, Literature & Art
Class Outlines, Summer Session II, 2002


I. STUPIDITY
Marx — the fourth world force
Rousseau — the fifth reverie, foundation of self
Kant — the dynamic sublime, the mathematical sublime

II. TRAUMA
Withdrawal of being — the residue left behind
Mourning — between absence and presence
The 'Space Between' — what you are, what you are intended to be
The Teaching Process & Trauma
The Process — Denial, Disavow, Reality Testing
The Response — Repeat, Get On, Get Over

III. FRIENDSHIP
Recindability — 'Testing Your Love or Breaking Up'
Rhythm — failutre to meet it's end
Betrayal — the good & the bad
Couples — the example of Abraham & Isaac
Death & Friendship

IV. FORGIVENESS
Memory & Forgetting
Wrongdoing / the Irreparable
Accusing a Collectivity
Grace

V. TESTING — AN ENDLESS ERASURE OF 'WHAT IS'
The Actual vs. the Possible
Mistrust vs. Faith
Destruction & Devastation


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