Saturday, September 02, 2006
(8:59 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Calm Before the Storm
Classes start Tuesday. After some shuffling, this is what I'm taking:- Philosophical Thought (PhD required course)
- Medieval Theology (directed reading)
- Marxist Political Economy (a kind of mini-seminar -- several of us are doing the same directed reading, and we're only meeting once a month)
- Butler and Foucault in Religious Studies
- Theories of Community (directed reading to go with one of my exam areas)
- Some course at DePaul, depending on what's being offered
- I am also thinking about sitting in on another class with Marion, this one over Augustine and modern philosophy (Descartes through Heidegger)
I don't know if I mentioned this, but in the Systematic Theology course for which I am the TA in the spring, the professor is having the students essentially just go through Calvin's Institutes. So I am basically going to be paid in part to read Calvin -- which is really the only way to do it. I'm working on a running joke to go along with this, and I'd like some feedback: "Of course, if I were doing the class, I would've chosen Melanchthon's Loci Communes."
