The Death And Life of Great

Loy draws from giants of psychotherapy and existentialism, from Nietzsche to Kierkegaard to Sartre, to explore the fundamental issues of life, death, and what motivates us.

China—the world's oldest continuous civilization—has undergone an astonishing transformation in a brief span of recent history. Since the collapse of its once-glorious empire in 1911, China has seen decades of epic turmoil and upheavals, emerging in the new century as both an authoritarian megastate and an economic powerhouse, poised to become an imposing global force…

This course is an introduction to the major texts of Western culture.
Ranging from antiquity to the present, it places special emphasis on several of literature's most important aspects:
* The uniqueness of literary language
* The formal and generic conventions of literary production
* The position that literature occupies as a site for historical and ideological forces and conflicts
* The continuing human significance of the great works of the past and the present.