Semester:
Spring
Offered:
2021
Joseph Koerner
Wednesdays, 3:00 pm - 5:45 pm
What challenges and opportunities arise for artists and writers working under dire conditions—martial, political, medical, and natural states of emergency? To what extent are such exceptional conditions the rule (as Walter Benjamin proposed)? Co-taught by Stephen Greenblatt (English) and Joseph Leo Koerner (History of Art), this course considers art and literature in states of siege against the backdrop of juridical theories of such states.
This class is co-taught by Stephen Greenblatt and is also offered as English 227s.