Walking Man I (1960) by Alberto Giacometti (Notes from the graduate seminar: Existential Literature and the Ethics of Engagement, with Professor Kirill Ole Thompson) Week 1 Course Introduction We will screen Night Train to Lisbon (2013) and Mulholland Drive (2001) in class. Other recommended screenings include Woody Allen’s movies and the Before Sunset trilogy. Textbooks: Gordon Marino, Basic Writings of Existentialism (Modern Library Classics); Robert Solomon, Existentialism , 2 Ed. Recommended books: Kevin Aho, Existentialism: An Introduction ; Beauvoir, The Second Sex (2nd Ed); Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist’s Café. The Starting Point The recent situations of human beings can’t be reasonably represented by an abstract system. Kierkegaard thinks that in the beginning, man is quite empty. When he makes his first decisions, his character starts to take shape, but this character is always changing. Sartre emphasizes that all the other thi
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