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• Salvador Dalì, Illustration of Montaigne’s essay “On Vanity”, 1946

New Interpretations course by Steven Smith and Giulia Oskian: Michel de Montaigne

January 16, 2019
This course will offer a close reading of the Essays by Michel de Montaigne (1533-92), which is commonly considered a classic text of European early modernity.
What Does It Mean To Be Human Poster

Humanities Information Session

January 15, 2019
Tuesday, January 15, 2019 - 5:30pm Whitney Humanities Center, Room 108 53 Wall Street

New Modernities Course by Stefanie Markovits and Stuart Semmel: Nineteenth-Century Historical Narratives

June 25, 2018
“History, at least in its state of imaginary perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy.” -Macaulay.  What does it mean to feel like you are living through history?
Jacques-Emile Blanche, Portrait of Marcel Proust, 1892

New Interpretations course by Howard Bloch and Pierre Saint-Amand: Proust, Remembrance of Things Past

June 16, 2018
 “The only paradise is a lost paradise.” A close reading (in English) of Marcel Proust’s masterpiece, “Remembrance of Things Past”, with emphasis upon major themes…
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