Course I
MEDIA AND THE UNCANNY (3 credits)
Explores the philosophical concept of the uncanny as it bears on the media by reading Freud, Heidegger, and Derrida.Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Sam Weber, The Legend of Freud (Cultural Memory in the Present) 180 pages Stanford University Press Expanded edition (May 2000) ISBN: 0804731217. Buy it at Amazon.com.
Jacques Derrida, The Spectre of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International. Routledge; (October 1994), 198 pages ISBN: 0415910455. Buy it at Amazon.com.
E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Sandman, in: Classic Tales Of Hoffmann. 411 pages Penguin USA (Paper); Reprint edition (August 1990) ISBN: 0140443924. Buy it at Amazon.com.