W.E.B. Du Bois and Walter Benjamin

Catalog description

This course will consist of close and careful readings of the ideas and stylistic dimensions of Benjamin’s and Du Bois’s major works in order to understand each thinker’s specificity and suggest fruitful ways to read them together as major theorists of western modernity. Enrollment limited to 12. This course is for Graduates only. Upperclass undergraduates require instructor's permission