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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.
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LITERARY THEORY, PSYCHOANALYSIS, PHILOSOPHY (3 credits)
Explores the shift to a media-oriented perception of reality and art by discussing theatricality as medium, Walter Benjamin, and the Uncanny.
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