GER 496

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Special Topics German Studies

Credit: 3 hours.

Intensive study of restricted topics in German language, literature, and culture.

3 undergraduate hours. 3 graduate hours. May be repeated as topics vary to a maximum of 9 undergraduate hours or 8 graduate hours. Prerequisite: Three years of college German or equivalent.

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	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	43207	Lecture-Discussion	A4	3:00PM -4:50PM	M	1136 Foreign Languages Building	Nielsen, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/12-05/02/12 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Aesthetics and Politics Section Info: : The seminar will focus on seminal texts by German social theorists writing on art, culture, and politics in the early 20th century. Meets with GER 576 and CWL 581. The course will explore seminal texts by German social theorists and philosophers writing on art, media, mass culture and politics in the early twentieth century. Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer, Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse and other left-wing intellectuals sought to put their theories into practice with the aim of transforming and liberating society from oppressive political systems. These theorists, writing before, during and after the political turmoil of mid-20th century Europe, created and demanded a significant social role for aesthetics, and their cross-disciplinary research involved all cultural dimensions, including literature, music, the visual arts, and mass media. In the 1920s and 30s, Kracauer and Benjamin examined photography, film, and the role of images in ways that linked the social focus of the Frankfurt School with the cultural focus of the Hamburg School (Warburg Institute). The graduate seminar is primarily a reading course designed to familiarize us with some of the most important early texts. But the seminar will also consider later European theorists, such as Peter B�rger and Jacques Ranci�re, tangentially drawing on the ideas of the Frankfurt School while fundamentally concerned with the politics of aesthetics. Instructor: Kristine Nielsen Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.