Professor Dean's Suggested Readings and Films

Readings:

Irvin Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession (1993)

Plato (427-347 B.C.), Apology, Republic

William E. Connolly, Identity\Difference: Democratic Negotiations of Political Paradox (1991)

Martin Heidegger, Being and Time (1927)

Martin Heidegger, Letter on Humanism (1947)

Paul Rabinow (Editor), The Foucault Reader (1984)

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835 & 1840)

Norman Jacobson, Pride and Solace: The Functions and Limits of Political Theory (1978)

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaugherhouse-Five (1969)

Jerzy Kozinski, Being There (1971)

Tim O'Brien, In the Lake of the Woods (1994)

Mark Helprin, Refiner's Fire (1977)

Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (2005)

Films:

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001, Written and Directed by, and Starring John Cameron Mitchell with music by Stephen Trask)

The Killing Fields (1984, Directed by Roland Joffe)

Bob Roberts (1992, Directed by Tim Robbins)

Syriana (2005, Directed by Stephen Gaghan)