EN 2140 - Existential Literature: The Individual Against the System

Existential literature dramatically illustrates the human being’s confrontation with his/her existence with all its complexities. The emphasis in this course is on well‐known existential writers, such as Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Nietzsche, Ortega, Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Neruda, and Camus, but not limited to them. The students will examine how this philosophy has become so closely linked to the almost all artistic works of the 20th Century. Offered every spring. (4 Credits)