Course Description
GLS 592-002: Philosophical Issues in Personal Identity: Transformation Through Impossible Experience
Instructor: Dr. Patricia Turrisi
Course Reference Number: 22565
Tuesdays, 3:30 - 6:15pm in Bear Hall, Room 102
Lives change.
Plans change.
This course is about the personal identities we have, ones that have become lost or broken, and others that have been found anew. We examine lives that were interrupted and formed again on a different model. Didi they see a change coming? How did they respond? Was their change for the better or worse? How do these lives challenge the notion that each person has a unified personal identity that persists over time?
Works that we will read include:
Michael Paul Mason, Head Cases
William Styron, Darkness Visible
Whitley Strieber, Communion
Anne Strieber, Communion Letters
Saint Augustine, Confessions
Dennis Lehane, Mystic River
Alberto Moravia, The Conformist
Selected essays by William James, Henry James Sr., John Locke and David Hume
Last Updated: March 2, 2017
Currently being offered for the Spring 2017 semester.
