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Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita (In-Person)
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 45 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY
Examine a landmark work of twentieth-century literature through themes of censorship, morality, faith and artistic freedom. Explore how fantasy, satire and allegory challenge political power while raising enduring questions about truth, love and conscience. Gain deeper historical and cultural insight through thoughtful discussion and close reading.
Oct 21st
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Fiction and Inner Life: Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
Can words describe what Virginia Woolf calls “the daily drama of the body”? Can literature verbalize our interiority: physical and spiritual change, the home, the mind, and the relationships between them? In her celebrated novel Mrs. Dalloway, Woolf’s eponymous protagonist is plagued with perpetual anxiety: Clarissa Dalloway is always on the verge of sickness, waking up on a sunny morning with a feeling of “terror,” “overwhelming incapacity,”...
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The Abyss I am Made Of: an Intro to Clarice Lispector
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
The Abyss I am Made Of: an Introduction to Clarice Lispector Compared over the course of her life to Marlene Dietrich, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Rainer Maria Rilke, Arthur Rimbaud, a sphinx, a she-wolf, a “foreigner on earth,” and a hurricane, the Jewish Brazilian Clarice Lispector, born to Ukrainian parents who fled to Brazil from interwar pogroms, made an indelible stamp on the literature of her adopted homeland—and...
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Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina (In-Person)
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 45 Main St , Brooklyn, NY
Delve into the world of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, a masterpiece exploring love, lust, and the social upheavals of 19th-century Russia. This course examines the novel’s portrayal of family, gender, religion, and modernity, addressing how personal choices intertwine with political and societal shifts during a period of transformation.
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Emanation and Return: an Introduction to Neoplatonism (In-Person)
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
Explore a philosophical tradition that unites metaphysical inquiry with spiritual practice, centered on the teachings of Plotinus. Examine key ideas on the nature of reality, the soul and its ascent toward unity. Engage with influential texts and their impact on major religious and philosophical traditions. Gain insight into philosophy as both a discipline and a way of life.
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Hannah Arendt: The Human Condition
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
What does it mean to be human in the world today? Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition (1958) is a provocative treatise on what it means to live on earth and share the world in common. Her study, originally intended to be titled Amor Mundi (Love of the World), investigates the central activities of human life—labor, work, action—and their corresponding realms—private, social, public. For Arendt, The Human Condition is about protecting spaces...
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Virginia Woolf: Embodiment and Novel Experiments
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 230 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY
In an essay called “Flying Over London,” Virginia Woolf imagines herself as a passenger on an airplane passing over the city. Her imagined journey becomes an occasion to think about both the lures of a fixed, constant subjectivity and the shifting currents of an unstable modernity. This fraught relationship with the self (and the flight from it) offers a crystalline lens through which to view Woolf’s experiments in writing and thinking the...
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Poetry and Poetics: An Introduction
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 230 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY
What is poetry and what is it good for? These questions have long haunted practitioners and readers of this “beautiful and pointless” art, to quote the contemporary critic David Orr. But “beautiful and pointless” were not always the terms of the debate. On the contrary, these questions about what poetry is and what it does mean something profoundly different in our contemporary moment than they meant in centuries past. Nor is this sense of...
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The Divine Comedy
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 600 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Dante’s Divine Comedy follows the journey of the poet through hell, purgatory, and paradise. This epic Italian poem, composed between 1308 and 1321, is an allegory for the movement of the soul toward God. But it is also a multifaceted exploration of ethics, metaphysics, politics, love, order, chaos, poetic form, and the Classical literary tradition. In this course, we’ll read The Divine Comedy in translation—Inferno, Purgatorio,...
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The Task of the Critic: an Introduction to Rosalind Krauss
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
Uncover the transformative power of poststructuralist, feminist, and psychoanalytic methods in art criticism through an exploration of the writings and ideas of Rosalind Krauss, the influential founder of October journal. Analyze representative artworks alongside her essays, as you delve into the ways in which art objects and movements challenge categorization and reshape aesthetic experience. Discover how Krauss's unique theoretical vocabulary redefines the role of the critic in art historical narratives.
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Marxism and Utopia: an Introduction to Ernst Bloch (In-Person)
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
Explore the enduring relevance of utopian thinking through the work of Ernst Bloch in this thought-provoking course. Delve into his vision of a non-alienated future and examine how art and literature can inspire political transformation. Join us as we challenge the proliferation of dystopian imaginaries and embrace the power of hope, imagination, and anticipation.
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W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction in America
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 314 7th St, Brooklyn, NY
Uncover the untold history of Reconstruction in America through W.E.B. Du Bois' groundbreaking perspective. Explore the struggles and triumphs of Black people during this transformative period and discover the lasting impact on U.S. democracy today. Supplementary readings by renowned scholars add depth to this thought-provoking course.
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Don DeLillo: Fiction, Paranoia, and Empire
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 411 S 5th St, Brooklyn, NY
Uncover the intersection of literature, politics, and culture in a thought-provoking course that examines the themes of fear, power, and influence in contemporary fiction.
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Hieronymus Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
Unravel Hieronymus Bosch's masterpiece triptych and explore its critique of early modern Europe, engagement with theology, and depiction of race, gender, and sexuality. Delve into politics and aesthetics, and discover the secrets behind the painting's dense and wild invention. Join us on a journey through Bosch's oeuvre and navigate the complexities of endless endings in our own moment.
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Erich Auerbach: Mimesis
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
Explore the profound insights of Erich Auerbach's "Mimesis" in a journey through Western literary tradition. Join us as we delve into Auerbach's groundbreaking analysis, unraveling the complexities of literary representation from Homer to modernity.
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The Pound Era: the Birth of Literary Modernism
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 1016 Beverley Rd, Brooklyn, NY
Explore the complexities of literary modernism through the lens of Ezra Pound's controversial influence, as well as the critical legacy of Hugh Kenner’s The Pound Era. This course delves into the interplay of modernist aesthetics, politics, and social transformation, challenging established narratives and examining the untold stories of race, gender, and history.
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Dialectical Matter: Aristotle, Politics, and Utopia (In-Person)
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
Explore the unexpected potential for a leftist reading of Aristotle's philosophy, challenging its traditional association with conservatism. This course delves into the dynamic interpretations of Aristotle’s hylomorphism, examining how thinkers like Ernst Bloch, Avicenna, and Marx reveal a transformative, agential view of matter and political critique.
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Fredric Jameson: Art, Postmodernism, and Utopia (In-Person)
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
Delve into the intricate world of Fredric Jameson, where history, culture, and ideology intersect in profound ways. This course explores key themes like postmodernism, utopia, and Marxist criticism through readings from Jameson’s major works and influences. Engage with literary forms, architecture, cinema, and more to challenge and expand your understanding of cultural production.
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Friedrich Nietzsche: Truth and Morality
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
Challenge the foundations of truth, morality, and objectivity through Nietzsche’s radical philosophy. Explore key concepts like the will to power, the übermensch, and eternal recurrence — and uncover how his provocative critique of traditional values seeks to confront nihilism and reimagine what it means to live beyond good and evil.
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Sigmund Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams (In-Person)
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research See all classes by this school @ 81 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY
Explore the profound role dreams play in revealing unconscious desires through Freud’s foundational theories of condensation and displacement. Analyze his own dream interpretations and trace the evolution of dream analysis through thinkers like Jung, Fromm, and Cixous. Examine how dreams are transformed when rendered into language.
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