GER 330 Natural and Unnatural Ecologies

This interdisciplinary course looks at different ways of rethinking the shifting boundary between subject and objects, self and world. It draws on philosophical and literary models ranging from the origins of the scientific method to German Romanticism, ecocritical theory, and contemporary novels. Authors include Giambattista Vico, Francis Bacon, Johann Fichte, Novalis, Theodor Adorno, Timothy Morton, Franz Kafka, W.G. Sebald, Christoph Ransmayr, Daniel Kehlmann, and Yoko Tawada. Course taught in English.

Credits

3

Cross Listed Courses

Cross-listed as ENS 330.

Prerequisite

GER 210