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SUMMARY:Chinese Classics for German Modernity:  Laozi to Kafka
DESCRIPTION:The first two decades of the twentieth century defined a new global cultural formation\, which we now call “modernity.” Rejecting the historicist assumptions of the nineteenth century\, leading writers around the world developed new visions of the future\, new approaches to human psychology\, and new forms of spiritual cultivation. Germany and the Austro-Hungarian empire produced particularly radical innovations which spread across literature\, the visual arts\, music\, architecture\, and scientific disciplines. We are most familiar with figures like Gustav Mahler\, Sigmund Freud\, and Franz Kafka\, but many others joined this constellation. Chinese thinkers shared in these global currents as well as many others.  \n It is striking that so many of the pioneering European thinkers of this period found inspiration in Asian civilizations\, particularly India and China. Although deeply versed in Christian and Jewish learning\, they broke through limitations of their own traditions\, finding in the classics of Asia new sources of spiritual and cultural inspiration. In this encounter with Asia\, they transformed the texts they discovered\, through translation and the creation of new texts\, forging penetrating insights into the modern world.  \nIn this seminar we will examine just a few examples of this extensive intercultural exchange\, focusing on the impact of four ancient Chinese classics on two major German writers. We will study closely excerpts from Laozi\, Liezi\, Zhuangzi\, and the Yijing [Book of Changes]\, as interpreted by Franz Kafka and Richard Wilhelm. \nFranz Kafka (1883-1924)\, born in Bohemia in the Austro-Hungarian empire\, is of course best known for his short stories\, like “Metamorphosis\,” and his novels The Trial and The Castle. But in 1917\, after being diagnosed with the tuberculosis that eventually caused his death\, he retreated to the small village of Zürau\, where he wrote 109 aphorisms on slips of paper\, each of which is an intense\, cryptic meditation on the journey of the soul. Many of them resonate in striking ways with ancient Chinese poet-philosophers like Laozi\, Liezi\, and Zhuangzi. Through creative writing\, Kafka not only penetrated esoteric Daoist classics\, but also furthered their spirit in a way that transcends Richard Wilhelm\, the pioneer German Sinologist. \nRichard Wilhelm (1873 – 1930)\, trained as a Protestant theologian\, went to China shortly after Germany acquired its leasehold territory at Tsingtao in Shandong. He spent over twenty-five years in China\, and on his return to Germany taught Chinese philosophy\, while translating and interpreting many of the Chinese classics. His most famous work is his translation of the Book of Changes\, an ancient divination text which contains concise\, cryptic explanations of the 64 hexagrams. Wilhelm’s translation\, retranslated into English in 1950\, became extremely popular in the U.S.\, inspiring much of the postwar American enthusiasm for Asian religions and spirituality\, and it is still a major source today. But how do the original Chinese text\, Wilhelm’s German version\, the English version of Wilhelm\, and new English translations each provide multiple perspectives on this baffling philosophical text? We will look at a few selections and attempt to puzzle them out. \nThis seminar will enlist you as pioneers in the search for multiple crisscrossing strands linking the fundamental cultural concepts of China\, Germany\, and the U.S\, from ancient to modern times. Please join us in this adventure! \nThis seminar will be conducted online.  Readings will be provided in advance of the seminar\, and all participants are asked to complete the readings and to participate in the discussion. \nOur Professors: \nHuiwen Helen Zhang\, Wellspring Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature\, University of Tulsa \nEducated at Peking University\, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg\, and Yale\, Huiwen Helen Zhang identifies herself as a transreader—a lento reader\, poetic translator\, creative writer\, and cultural critic in one. The role of transreader and the theory of transreading link Dr. Zhang’s research on Chinese\, German\, and Scandinavian literature\, philosophy\, history\, and art. Dr Zhang’s current projects combine panoramic vision with meticulous methodology. Her second book\, Transreading: A Common Language for Cultural Critique (under contract)\, engages those whom Dr. Zhang terms “transreaders of modernity”: Kierkegaard\, Nietzsche\, Strindberg\, Döblin\, Kollwitz\, and Lu Xun. Her third book\, Kafka’s Dao: The Patience Game\, challenges the reader to decipher one of the most astonishing cross-cultural enigmas: how\, through transreading\, Kafka transplants the seed of Dao and nurtures it in a European mind. \nPeter C. Perdue\, Professor of History\, Yale University \nProfessor Perdue has taught courses on East Asian history and civilization\, Chinese social and economic history\, the Silk Road\, and historical methodology. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of numerous books\, including China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (Harvard University Press\, 2005). His current research focuses on Chinese frontiers\, Chinese environmental history\, and the history of tea. Most recently\, he has published an introduction to environmental history in Chinese. Professor Perdue has taught under the EverScholar model to great acclaim. \nTo Register for this seminar\, please complete the form below:
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SUMMARY:Thucydides' Plague\, and Ours (Section 3)
DESCRIPTION:Thucydides’ account of the plague that struck Athens in 430 BCE is recalled / rediscovered whenever nations in the West experience a global epidemic or pandemic. It is famous both as a seminal chapter in plague literature\, which served as a model for plague narratives in Lucretius\, Virgil\, Ovid\, and Procopius\, and as an important contribution to political thought for its treatment of the plague as both a symptom of and metaphor for political dysfunction. However\, the tendency to treat Thucydides’ plague account as part of a tradition typically obscures what is distinctive and original about this account. The seminar will offer an opportunity to get to grips with the interpretation of this complex passage and to engage with debates in current scholarship. Moreover\, the context for our reading – in the midst of a pandemic – means that we are well placed to notice certain details in Thucydides’ account\, such as his focus on the altered experience of temporality during an epidemic. \nThis seminar is offered online by EverScholar.  In order to encourage an optimal discussion experience\, enrollment is limited to 9 persons.  However\, the seminar is also offered at two other times\, also with Professor Greenwood.  Register for the session that you are certain you can attend. \nOur Professor:  Emily Greenwood\, Professor of Classics\, Yale University \nEmily Greenwood is Professor of Classics and Chair of the Classics department at Yale. She trained at the University of Cambridge and then taught at the University of St Andrews in Scotland before joining the faculty at Yale in 2009. She specializes in ancient Greek prose literature of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE\, with a particular interest in historical narratives. Her initial interest in Classics grew out of curiosity about the circulation of ancient Greek and Roman works in so many different guises in the modern world and this curiosity continues to guide her research and teaching. In both she foregrounds questions of transmission\, translation\, adaptation and the role that different interpretative communities and traditions play in creating the works that we study. It is this interest in adaptation and the dynamic interrelationship between so-called “original” or “source” texts and subsequent versions which led to her collaboration on a course on The Tempest and its versions. She has published books on Thucydides’ History (Thucydides and the Shaping of History\, 2006)\, and on responses to the Classics in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (Afro-Greeks\, 2010). Her current research projects include reading Thucydides as war literature\, and a tentative\, tropological encyclopedia of Black Classicism. \nTo Register for this seminar\, please complete the form below:
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SUMMARY:Thucydides' Plague\, and Ours (Section 2)
DESCRIPTION:Thucydides’ account of the plague that struck Athens in 430 BCE is recalled / rediscovered whenever nations in the West experience a global epidemic or pandemic. It is famous both as a seminal chapter in plague literature\, which served as a model for plague narratives in Lucretius\, Virgil\, Ovid\, and Procopius\, and as an important contribution to political thought for its treatment of the plague as both a symptom of and metaphor for political dysfunction. However\, the tendency to treat Thucydides’ plague account as part of a tradition typically obscures what is distinctive and original about this account. The seminar will offer an opportunity to get to grips with the interpretation of this complex passage and to engage with debates in current scholarship. Moreover\, the context for our reading – in the midst of a pandemic – means that we are well placed to notice certain details in Thucydides’ account\, such as his focus on the altered experience of temporality during an epidemic. \nThis seminar is offered online by EverScholar.  In order to encourage an optimal discussion experience\, enrollment is limited to 9 persons.  However\, the seminar is also offered at two other times\, also with Professor Greenwood.  Register for the session that you are certain you can attend. \nOur Professor:  Emily Greenwood\, Professor of Classics\, Yale University \nEmily Greenwood is Professor of Classics and Chair of the Classics department at Yale. She trained at the University of Cambridge and then taught at the University of St Andrews in Scotland before joining the faculty at Yale in 2009. She specializes in ancient Greek prose literature of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE\, with a particular interest in historical narratives. Her initial interest in Classics grew out of curiosity about the circulation of ancient Greek and Roman works in so many different guises in the modern world and this curiosity continues to guide her research and teaching. In both she foregrounds questions of transmission\, translation\, adaptation and the role that different interpretative communities and traditions play in creating the works that we study. It is this interest in adaptation and the dynamic interrelationship between so-called “original” or “source” texts and subsequent versions which led to her collaboration on a course on The Tempest and its versions. She has published books on Thucydides’ History (Thucydides and the Shaping of History\, 2006)\, and on responses to the Classics in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (Afro-Greeks\, 2010). Her current research projects include reading Thucydides as war literature\, and a tentative\, tropological encyclopedia of Black Classicism. \nTo Register for this seminar\, please complete the form below:
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SUMMARY:Thucydides' Plague\, and Ours (Section 1)
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nThucydides’ account of the plague that struck Athens in 430 BCE is recalled / rediscovered whenever nations in the West experience a global epidemic or pandemic. It is famous both as a seminal chapter in plague literature\, which served as a model for plague narratives in Lucretius\, Virgil\, Ovid\, and Procopius\, and as an important contribution to political thought for its treatment of the plague as both a symptom of and metaphor for political dysfunction. However\, the tendency to treat Thucydides’ plague account as part of a tradition typically obscures what is distinctive and original about this account. The seminar will offer an opportunity to get to grips with the interpretation of this complex passage and to engage with debates in current scholarship. Moreover\, the context for our reading – in the midst of a pandemic – means that we are well placed to notice certain details in Thucydides’ account\, such as his focus on the altered experience of temporality during an epidemic. \n  \nThis seminar is offered online by EverScholar.  In order to encourage an optimal discussion experience\, enrollment is limited to 9 persons.  However\, the seminar is also offered at two other times\, also with Professor Greenwood.  Register for the session that you are certain you can attend. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nOur Professor:  Emily Greenwood\, Professor of Classics\, Yale University \nEmily Greenwood is Professor of Classics and Chair of the Classics department at Yale. She trained at the University of Cambridge and then taught at the University of St Andrews in Scotland before joining the faculty at Yale in 2009. She specializes in ancient Greek prose literature of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE\, with a particular interest in historical narratives. Her initial interest in Classics grew out of curiosity about the circulation of ancient Greek and Roman works in so many different guises in the modern world and this curiosity continues to guide her research and teaching. In both she foregrounds questions of transmission\, translation\, adaptation and the role that different interpretative communities and traditions play in creating the works that we study. It is this interest in adaptation and the dynamic interrelationship between so-called “original” or “source” texts and subsequent versions which led to her collaboration on a course on The Tempest and its versions. She has published books on Thucydides’ History (Thucydides and the Shaping of History\, 2006)\, and on responses to the Classics in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (Afro-Greeks\, 2010). Her current research projects include reading Thucydides as war literature\, and a tentative\, tropological encyclopedia of Black Classicism. \n  \nTo Register for this seminar\, please complete the form below:
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SUMMARY:Seven Federalist Papers (Session 2)
DESCRIPTION:The Federalist\, or The Federalist Papers\, are familiar terms to American students\, (and\, hopefully\, most American citizens) from AP History classes forward.  They are commonly introduced as a expression – a great expression – of a coherent political theory.  The Constitution\, we know\, is short\, and beyond the Preamble contains neither explanation nor justification for the rules it expounds.  The Federalist\, we are taught\, provides its theoretical basis.\nBut in its day\, the Federalist was no book; it was a series of articles\, published piecemeal over the long\, glorious year of ratification debates.  It was part of a great argument\, and was meant not as a reference for posterity\, but as persuasive material for a vote.  It was perhaps the first political blog.\nIn this seminar we will read seven of these editorials\, and analyze them from the points of view of its intended readers.  Why were Federalist 4-6 published before Federalist 10\, or for that matter before 51?  What were the points of persuasion behind each of these papers?  What do these papers tell us about the process by which the Articles of Confederation were supplanted by the US Constitution?  What were the opposition arguments that the various essays attempted to refute – or head off?\nThe Federalist Papers are frequently cited by Courts\, including the Supreme Court\, for although they were never voted upon\, and never had any legal status\, they represented a form of evidence about what the Constitution meant. Accordingly\, we will probe for clues that shed light on the greatest Constitutional question of the nation’s first century:  secession.\nJoin us\, and re-enter the debate of that miraculous year\, when America constituted itself.\n\n\nThis seminar is full.  Please register for one of our other fantastic seminars!\nOur Professor:  Akhil Reed Amar\, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science\, Yale University \nAkhil Reed Amar is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University\, where he teaches constitutional law in both Yale College and Yale Law School. After graduating from Yale College\, summa cum laude\, in 1980 and from Yale Law School in 1984\, and clerking for now-Justice Stephen Breyer\, Amar joined the Yale faculty in 1985 at the age of 26. He is the winner of Yale’s DeVane Medal for teaching\, and in 2017 he received the Howard Lamar Award for outstanding service to Yale alumni. He has co-led or been guest professor\, for courses with the EverScholar model on several occasions over the past 5 years.
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SUMMARY:Seven Federalist Papers
DESCRIPTION:.\nThe Federalist\, or The Federalist Papers\, are familiar terms to American students\, (and\, hopefully\, most American citizens) from AP History classes forward.  They are commonly introduced as a expression – a great expression – of a coherent political theory.  The Constitution\, we know\, is short\, and beyond the Preamble contains neither explanation nor justification for the rules it expounds.  The Federalist\, we are taught\, provides its theoretical basis.\nBut in its day\, the Federalist was no book; it was a series of articles\, published piecemeal over the long\, glorious year of ratification debates.  It was part of a great argument\, and was meant not as a reference for posterity\, but as persuasive material for a vote.  It was perhaps the first political blog.\nIn this seminar we will read seven of these editorials\, and analyze them from the points of view of its intended readers.  Why were Federalist 4-6 published before Federalist 10\, or for that matter before 51?  What were the points of persuasion behind each of these papers?  What do these papers tell us about the process by which the Articles of Confederation were supplanted by the US Constitution?  What were the opposition arguments that the various essays attempted to refute – or head off?\nThe Federalist Papers are frequently cited by Courts\, including the Supreme Court\, for although they were never voted upon\, and never had any legal status\, they represented a form of evidence about what the Constitution meant. Accordingly\, we will probe for clues that shed light on the greatest Constitutional question of the nation’s first century:  secession.\nJoin us\, and re-enter the debate of that miraculous year\, when America constituted itself.\n\n\nThis seminar is full.  Please register for one of our other fantastic seminars!\nOur Professor:  Akhil Reed Amar\, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science\, Yale University \nAkhil Reed Amar is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University\, where he teaches constitutional law in both Yale College and Yale Law School. After graduating from Yale College\, summa cum laude\, in 1980 and from Yale Law School in 1984\, and clerking for now-Justice Stephen Breyer\, Amar joined the Yale faculty in 1985 at the age of 26. He is the winner of Yale’s DeVane Medal for teaching\, and in 2017 he received the Howard Lamar Award for outstanding service to Yale alumni. He has co-led or been guest professor\, for courses with the EverScholar model on several occasions over the past 5 years.
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