04 — Teaching
The translational concerns that motivate my research also shape my approach to teaching. Seminars can be a place for being with the dead — that their voices be present and our distance to them measured. The focus is on reading difficult primary texts, slowly. Finding ourselves around these texts, seminars ought to be, in a double sense, spaces of our own 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.