- 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
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--
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