04 — Teaching
The translational concerns that motivate my research also shape my approach to teaching. Reading difficult texts, slowly, we let voices of the past speak to the present. Lending our voices to others, we first find our own, and seminars become, in a double sense, spaces of our making.
Syllabi are available on request.
A yearlong introduction to classics of Western historical and political thought. Bible, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Polybius, Livy, Plutarch, Tacitus, Augustine, Alfarabi, Maimonides, Aquinas, Luther, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Federalists, Condorcet, Burke, Wollstonecraft, Marx, Douglass, Nietzsche, Du Bois, Arendt.
A summer school, working with the German and the new English translation of Rosenzweig's early masterpiece.
Texts by Herder, Kant, Schiller, Hegel, Marx, Benjamin.
Taught for senior citizens, online, via Brandeis Osher Life-Long Learning Institute.
Taught for senior citizens, online, via Brandeis Osher Life-Long Learning Institute.
First-year German language sequence, taught through immersive-communicative methods.
A close study of Hegel's opus magnum.
Course design for teachers.
A close study of Mann's magisterial novel.