European Nihilism

Subject Code: 
ITALGEN
Course Number: 
278
Crosslisted as: 
FRENGEN 278
Description: 

This course will probe the thought of nothingness in various European writers and thinkers. The main authors include Giacomo Leopardi, Nietszsche, Michelstader, Heidegger, Beckett, and Emile Cioran.

Instructor: 
Robert Pogue Harrison
Term: 
Win
Academic Year: 
2011-12
Day/Time: 
Th 2:15p-5:05p