Thursday, April 17, 2008

collecting mid-terms

I just want to start collecting material that could be important for the midterm--from lecture, lecture notes, blog postings, class discussions, study questions and the texts themselves. please feel free to post comments with questions or terms--

  • the "dark," "darkness" and "death" in Antigone (remember Brecht's little Antigone poem and her stepping from the darkness
  • Brecht's "dark times" in "To Posterity" (poem)
  • the chorus of the Egyptian Antigone and the problem of spectators
  • playing/doing--internal v. external
  • who are the "confusers" of Brecht's longer poem from "The Antigone Legend"?
  • problem of inaction or not doing anything (re: diagnostic)
  • the crime of speaking about trees=not talking about injustices
  • the Underworld (what kind of Hell is Hades?)
  • glory, as religious vs. personal ideal
  • Kowalke as anti-war figure
  • Kowalke as symbol of universal sacredness of all human life
  • types of claims--summative, descriptive, arguable (claim-y)
  • "kerugma" (Kreon, Creon, Junker?)
  • touchstones/antitouchstones
  • "Doing As One Likes"
  • epistemological crisis
  • MK study questions--13 (Luther); 14 (social contract/outcast); 16 ("present public opinion and posterity"); 19 (overlapping jurisdictions); 20 (fairy tale from pp 190 on); 23 (significance of statement "are you satisfied with me?")
  • Kleist's "we" (page 177, 205, other places?)
  • unintentional suffering/casualities of war v. aiding fellow citizens
  • revenge/justice
  • living in a world that throws you down (psychotic action)
  • thinking honorable/terrible in one sentence
  • government inaction requires direct action?
  • having sympathy for MK (re: Cholly Breedlove, Virginia Tech)
  • desire for immediacy in a time of mediation (bureacracy)
  • the violence of bureaucracy
  • decision/certitude/doubt in MK (re: sense perception?)
  • "swaraj"--home rule/self-government/self-improvement
  • Gandhi's position on moderates and extremists
  • passive resistance
  • the role of suffering
  • the law of religion (Gandhi's ethics)
  • Gandhi's critique of modern civilization

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