GERM-UA 283 Topics: Albrecht Durer & German Renaissance

Taking its cue from Thomas Piketty’s recent Capital in the Twenty-First Century and from nineteenth century discussions to examine Capitalism through a multidisciplinary lens, this course proceeds from the conviction that different types of texts reveal different paradoxes or realities of markets and their life-world externalities. Our main entry points will be literary, historical, and philosophical discussions of the economy from the past 250 years, including moral philosophers like Adam Smith and Benjamin Franklin, social critics like Karl Marx, Georg Simmel and Rosa Luxemburg, poets like Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Bertolt Brecht, and novelists like Hermann Melville and Don Delillo.

College of Arts and Sciences, German
GERM-UA 283 | 4 units | Class#: 19615