| Description |
This course examines how contemporary writers engage with the most challenging moral issues of our time, including the problem of freedom in an age of terror, social suffering, and the ethics of identity. What rights do individuals have in an age of terrorism? How do the constraints of justice affect the nature and meaning of freedom? How do individuals maintain personal relationships across religious, racial, or national boundaries? The course will focus on how major world writers confront both the questions raised by the politics of terror and more enduring issues of authenticity, sincerity, truthfulness, and forgiveness. |