Monday, August 08, 2005
(8:23 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Soon and very soon
Classes start in about four weeks. I'm looking forward to it for several reasons. First, by the time classes start, it will be fall, which is far and away the best season. (Spring is second place, owing to its inclusion of "the cruellest month.") Second, the social aspect of classes is not to be minimized. Third, I could use some structured time pressures in order to encourage me to read, and also to let me know when I'm done reading. Finally, by that time, the new season of The Simpsons will have started.Here are the classes I am going to take:
- Contemporary Hermeneutical Strategies -- a required course.
- Kierkegaard and Nietzsche -- for many reasons, I feel like I need to solidify my Kierkegaard, and though I've read a lot of Nietzsche, that was before I was really equipped to understand what was at stake in his texts.
- Nancy and Agamben (directed study) -- I might as well get some credit for this Nancy work that I've been doing, and I have also decided that it must be possible to understand Homo Sacer and that there's no time like the present (I'd like to use it in a paper, basically).
- Patristics (directed study) -- finishing up what I've started this summer. I'm working on Origen right now, who is qualitatively better and more interesting than Clement, and after that, the tentative plan is to work through Athanasius and the Cappadocians. I don't know how far into the semester this will take me.
In the spring semester, which I fondly call The Semester of the Damned, I will take three or four classroom-style classes, including one at the Div School. One of the potential classes is on Augustine and others, so perhaps next summer, I can do a directed study on medieval theology -- then me and Mutabilitie can talk shop! (I'm planning on an exam area in Early and Medieval Christian Thought.)
After that, I don't really have any set plans.
