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Apr 24, 2024
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Goucher College 2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
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PHL 312 - Ethics After Auschwitz (4 Cr.) (GCR RPP)
This course will center around what it means to “go on” - to live and function - as an ethical agent and as a human being in a world “after Auschwitz,” i.e., after a century of genocides and mass murder. Throughout the course, we will focus on the ways in which philosophers have assessed, responded to, and ultimately understood human existence after a century of mass murder, what they claim it revealed about humanity and society, and especially what it suggests for or proposes about our future. Some of the topics we will consider include race thinking, antisemitism, imperialism, and colonialism, and how these relate to a genocidal worldview and to the perpetration of genocide. Some of the figures we may read include Herbert Marcuse, Cedric Robinson, Aimé Césaire, Theodor W. Adorno, Emmanuel Levinas, Hannah Arendt, Jean Améry, Charlotte Delbo, and others. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy, or permission of the instructor. Shuster.
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