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Wagner’s Ring Cycle: the Total Art Work
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
At age 37, Richard Wagner—composer, exile, and failed revolutionary—set to work on the project that would consume the next 25 years of his life. By its completion, it had grown into arguably the most ambitious artwork of the 19th century: the monumental cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, a fifteen-hour operatic tetralogy of unprecedented scope and complexity, narrating the history of the world from its birth to its destruction. The cycle was...
Understanding Loneliness: Literature, Philosophy,Theory
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
How are we to understand loneliness today? It appears that we are facing a mass epidemic of loneliness—one perhaps exacerbated by virological pandemic of COVID-19. Britain has appointed a Minister of Loneliness to counter rising rates of isolation. Approximately 20-43 percent of American adults over the age of 60 experience “frequent or intense loneliness.” And, it is clear from medical research that loneliness has significant health impacts:...
Hannah Arendt: On Revolution
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
What is revolution? Is there a distinction between civil disobedience, violent protest, and revolutionary action? What does it mean to found a state? Are foundings always bloody and violent? When Hannah Arendt’s On Revolution appeared in 1963, it was overshadowed by the simultaneous publication of Eichmann in Jerusalem. Inspired by a conference on “The United States and the Revolutionary Spirit” at Princeton University in the spring of 1959...
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Sado-Masochism: Economies of Desire and Recognition
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 75 Broad St, New York, NY
From Hegel to Deleuze, many political thinkers have employed the language of dominance and submission within the tradition of Western political thought. How does the language of Sado-masochism shape the way we think about desire and political recognition? This course will look at how the erotic language of S&M is embedded in the theoretical frameworks we use to approach questions of knowledge, pleasure, and power. Beginning with Hegel’s famous...
Art and the Unthinkable: an Introduction to Dada
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Born in the wake of World War I, Dada survived only a few brief years. Yet, with its deliberate embrace of the nonsensical, and its resolute rejection of bourgeois individualism, Dada (named at random after the French word for “hobby horse”) helped pave the way for artistic modernism–and even, arguably, postmodernism. For Dadaists, art was inseparable from the contingent experiences of everyday life. In their work, they sought to capture...
Hannah Arendt: The Human Condition
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
What does it mean to be human in the world today? Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition (1958) is a provocative treatise on what it means to live on earth and share the world in common. Her study, originally intended to be titled Amor Mundi (Love of the World), investigates the central activities of human life—labor, work, action—and their corresponding realms—private, social, public. For Arendt, The Human Condition is about protecting spaces...
Pornography: Aesthetics, Politics, and Pleasure
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Pornography is one of humanity’s oldest, and most enduring artifacts. Variously celebrated and demonized, it has decorated sumptuous palaces and been furtively sold under pain of arrest. In the modern United States, it is kept studiously out of sight, and yet is simultaneously omnipresent and accessible in its most explicit forms with a simple click of the mouse. What is pornography? What does it do? Why do we treat it so inconsistently? Why is...
Heidegger/Arendt: Philosophy, Influence, and Being
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger’s love affair is perhaps the most well-known, if not notorious, in modern Western letters. But, putting the more intimate aspects aside, how can we understand the intellectual connection, sometimes ardent, sometimes ambivalent, sometimes hostile that tied the two together for the majority of their adult lives—even after Heidegger’s turn to Nazism? In this course we will explore the affinities and differences...
Convalescence: Sickness, Society, and Resignation
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
In a world that is itself sick—with the irascible demands of production that continuously propagate new forms of exploitation—and that in turn sickens its inhabitants, what kind of response is retreat? In Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, a young scion of the bourgeoisie undergoes an unexpectedly protracted rest cure in a cloistered Swiss sanitorium, while the outside world is igniting for war. In Deborah Levy’s Hot Milk, nearly a century later,...
The Problem of Evil: Augustine, Nietzsche, Arendt
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
The question of evil has long been central to western political thought: from Augustine’s Confessions, in which evil is a perversion of the will, to Nietzsche’s provocative view that the concept of evil arose from negative emotions and weakened human vitality. Since the middle of the 20th century, however, political philosophers and theorists have tried to come to terms with the seemingly unrelenting stream of evil and violence that shapes contemporary...
Hannah Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Delve into the historical origins of totalitarianism and its modern implications in this thought-provoking course, exploring Hannah Arendt's profound analysis of imperialism, anti-Semitism, and the erosion of individualism. Uncover the connections between racism, nationalism, and the collapse of social cohesion, and gain new insights into today's refugee crisis and statelessness.
Silence: Art, Literature, and Philosophy
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Silence, wrote Adrienne Rich, “is a presence / it has a history a form / Do not confuse it / with any kind of absence.” Ludwig Wittgenstein’s famous admonition that “whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent” suggests, similarly, that silence is replete—not with states of affairs, but with matters of value, judgment, and human ethics. From John Cage’s 4’33” to Robert Rauschenberg’s “White Painting” series,...
Artistic Realism: From Representation to Revolution
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
The middle of the nineteenth century saw a vast transformation in art and aesthetics from the ideal values of polite bourgeois society to a revolutionary form of radical Realism. Leading the charge of the Realist movement was Gustav Courbet, who asked, “Whose lives are portrayed in art?” And “Whose life is worth depicting?” We might also ask: Whose life is worth looking at? When Courbet presented his now famous “A Burial at Ornans” in...
Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Delve into Thomas Mann's literary masterpiece, 'The Magic Mountain,' at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. This course invites exploration into the profound themes of love, loss, time, and the human condition against the backdrop of prewar Europe. Analyzing Mann's work alongside medical journals, reviews, and lectures, participants will ponder questions of health, the evolving nature of time in modernity, and the pursuit of enchantment in a rapidly changing world.
Dreams and Dreaming: Philosophy, Psychology, and the Unconscious
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Explore the realm of dreams through the lenses of philosophy, psychology, and the unconscious in this interdisciplinary course. Discover how dreams have inspired artists, writers, and theorists, shedding light on the nature of reality and our connection to others. Delve into the works of Freud, Benjamin, Coleridge, and more as you unravel the profound connections between dreams and waking life.
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