ENG 640 Russian Literature & Philosophical Influence

The aim of the course is to present an historic and thematic overview of the Russian philosophical and literary tradition, with selections from such writers as Lev Shestov, Leo Tolstoy, Alexander Pushkin, Marina Tsvetaeva, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mikhail Bakhtin, Pavel Florensky, Nikoli Berdyaev, Vladimir Solovyov, Vladimir Nabokov, Nikolai Gogal, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Aleksander Solzhenitsyn. The problems of evil, redemption, suffering, nihilism, religion, and political meaning are discussed throughout. An interdisciplinary team-taught course.

Credits

3

Cross Listed Courses

PHI 640