COMPLIT 258A: Existentialism, from Moral Quest to Novelistic Form (FRENCH 258A, ILAC 211, ILAC 311)

Comparative Literature Stanford University 5.0 credits

Course Description

This seminar intends to follow the development of Existentialism from its genesis to its literary expressions in the European postwar. The notions of defining commitment, of moral ambiguity, the project of the self, and the critique of humanism will be studied in selected texts by Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Unamuno, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Joan Sales.

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