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[lollardfish]

Readings - The Self: From Antiquity to You.

• St. Augustine - Confessions
• Abelard and Heloise - Letters
• ______________________________???
• Ralph Ellison - The Invisible Man
• John McCain/Barak Obama - their autobiographies

I have some thoughts, but I want yours!

Comments

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Montaigne, Essais.

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Pascal, Pensées. Descartes, Discours de la méthode.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Would you care to select one from among your three entirely reasonable suggestions? I am leaning Montaigne, myself. I really only get one.

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Montaigne is the one with a sense of humor, and he has the strongest individual voice. He's certainly my favorite of the three. I've never taught any of them, but I think Montaigne was my favorite one to study.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Do you think that ill-educated freshmen will be able to comprehend it? I feel so comfortable with Augustine and Abelard/Heloise that I think I can guide them into the texts ...

[txanne.livejournal.com]

I think so, especially if you pick short and/or funny ones. (I'm particularly fond of the one on cannibals.)

[neogrammarian.livejournal.com]

I'd third the idea of Montaigne. Otherwise, the letters between Baudelaire and Georges Sand are pretty cool, and my provide a nice compare/contrast w/A-H

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, I forgot about them! George Sand rawks.

[neogrammarian.livejournal.com]

So true. I was hoping to get to read some of them this summer, but we'll see how my time goes- I hadn't realized they existed until, years ago, I saw a stage production of some of them. Sort of a theatrical representation of their friendship. Since I'm a big Baudelaire fan, I figured that, someday, I would Have to read them!

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

I've never read them!

[zinzinzinnia.livejournal.com]

I loved Pensées when I was an undergrad, and I thought Pascal had a sense of humour. :)

I wanted to throw Descartes out the window, on the other hand.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Yeah. That's what I think too. I've never taught it.