Online: Uncanny Voyages with Phil Weinstein
Wednesdays at 7pm, January 26th - April 20th
This winter, Philip Weinstein, the Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor of English Emeritus at Swarthmore College, will present a seven-part seminar "Uncanny Voyages," that will center on writers who explore extreme situations. Readings from Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Freud, Kafka, Faulkner, and Flannery O’Connor will make up the syllabus.
According to Professor Weinstein, "in these readings we enter spaces where common sense collapses. Kafka prized those books “that affect us like a disaster...like being banished into forests far from everyone... A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within.” To travel with such texts is to encounter the bracing shock of uncanny voyages."
Hosted on Zoom by Lifelong Learning Swarthmore and Vineyard Haven Public Library, the class will take place every two weeks on Wednesdays from 7:00-8:30 pm, January 26th - April 20th, 2022. Zoom login will be sent to registered library participants prior to the first session on January 26th. To register through the library, visit https://bit.ly/3mCbuds
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