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O DYSSEY OF

THE W EST VI

A Classic Education

through the Great Books

T HE T WENTIETH C ENTURY

COURSE GUIDE

Professor Timothy B. Shutt,

KENYON COLLEGE, Series Editor

Featuring Professors Katherine L. Elkins

and Joel F. Richeimer

Odyssey of the West VI

A Classic Education through the Great Books

The Twentieth Century

Professor Timothy B. Shutt

Kenyon College

Series Editor

Featuring Professors Katherine L. Elkins

and Joel F. Richeimer

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Odyssey of the West VI:

A Classic Education through the Great Books:

The Twentieth Century

Professor Timothy B. Shutt, series editor

Featuring Professors Katherine L. Elkins

and Joel F. Richeimer

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Course Syllabus

Odyssey of the West VI:

A Classic Education through the Great Books:

The Twentieth Century

About Your Professors .................................................................................................4

Introduction...................................................................................................................5

Lecture 1

Anglophone America and the United States .........................................6

Professor Timothy B. Shutt

Lecture 2

Søren Kierkegaard...............................................................................11

Professor Joel F. Richeimer

Lecture 3

Impressionism and Post-Impressionism ..............................................19

Professor Katherine L. Elkins

Lecture 4

Nietzsche .............................................................................................23

Professor Joel F. Richeimer

Lecture 5

The Rise of Psychology and Sigmund Freud ......................................32

Professor Timothy B. Shutt

Lecture 6

The Age of Empire and the Great War................................................38

Professor Timothy B. Shutt

Lecture 7

Modernism ...........................................................................................44

Professor Katherine L. Elkins

Lecture 8

The Modern Novel ...............................................................................49

Professor Katherine L. Elkins

Lecture 9

The Lost Generation ............................................................................54

Professor Katherine L. Elkins

Lecture 10

Logical Positivism and Ludwig Wittgenstein........................................59

Professor Joel F. Richeimer

Lecture 11

World War II and the Postwar World ...................................................67

Professor Timothy B. Shutt

Lecture 12

Jean-Paul Sartre..................................................................................73

Professor Joel F. Richeimer

Lecture 13

Postmodernism ....................................................................................83

Professor Katherine L. Elkins

Lecture 14

The Contemporary World ....................................................................88

Professor Timothy B. Shutt

Course Materials ........................................................................................................93

Recorded Books.........................................................................................................96

About Your Professors

TIMOTHY B. SHUTT was educated at Yale and the

University of Virginia. He has taught for more than

twenty years at Kenyon College, famed for splendid

teaching, literary tradition, and unwavering commitment

to the liberal arts. No teacher at Kenyon has ever been

more often honored, both by the college and by stu-

dents, for exceptional skills in the classroom and as a

lecturer. Professor Shutt is the director of Kenyon’s

interdisciplinary Integrated Program in Humane

Studies. His courses have always been heavily over-

subscribed, and he lectures on Homer, Plato, Aristotle,

the Bible, the Greek historians, Virgil, and Dante every

year to a packed house.

KATHERINE L. ELKINS was educated at Yale

University and the University of California, Berkeley.

She has won a number of teaching awards at both

Berkeley and Kenyon College, where she is now an

associate professor of humanities. She teaches

Odyssey of the West to Kenyon undergraduates, and

intellectual and cultural history from the mid-nineteenth

century to the present. Her writing has appeared in

journals such as Comparative Literature Studies ,

Modernism/Modernity , Modern Language Quarterly ,

and Discourse , and she has just completed a book on

Marcel Proust.

JOEL F. RICHEIMER is an associate professor of phi-

losophy and one of the most esteemed lecturers at

Kenyon College. He earned his Ph.D. from the

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and has published

and presented philosophical articles in the areas of

perception, law, Aristotle, and science.

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