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1. Crises and bubbles under Capitalism |
2. Counterculture through the ages |
3. Lev Tolstoi |
4. Films inspired in literature |
5. Solving unemployment: the handshake approach |
6. The next big change |
7. Life 13.000 years ago |
8. The birth of cinema and the art of Charles Chaplin |
9. Explorers |
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Metodología
The purpose of this course is to provide students with a time and a space for humanistic growth and learning. A variety of subjects will be explained and discussed, both as a source of knowledge in themselves and, more importantly, as a springboard for another level of learning: a set of principles with which to navigate successfully through life's dilemmas and uncertainties.
Each session will be devoted to a specific topic or event of artistic, economic or historical importance. The focus of the lecture will be to explain the context, causes, consequences, artistic movement to which it belongs or economic theory that explains it. Next, moving from large to small and from to general to personal, we will open a discussion to try to extract, with everyone's insight, a lesson or a principle enlightening and useful enough for us to want to remember and include in our "life philosophy". The discussions will be enriched with the ideas obtained from a weekly reading assignment: a short story by some of Literature's best writers (Flaubert, Tolstoi, Twain, Dostoeivski¿).
Each student will be able to draw his or her own conclusions, but an essential part of the course will be the discussions to try to agree on a common list of principles that we consider useful for living a fulfilling life. Throughout these discussions the professor will enforce only one requirement: that all proposals are guided by a desire for self-improvement.
Bibliografía
Basic bibliography:
. Understanding Capitalism, Bowles, Edwards and Roosevelt
. Arms, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond
. Selected Poems, Emily Dickinson
. Flaubert in Egypt, Gustave Flaubert
. "The failure of the Economy and the Economists", Benjamin Friedman
. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
. Apology: On the Death of Socrates, Plato
. Supercapitalism, Robert Reich
. "Global Rebalancing Is America's Job Too", Stephen Roach
. A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Laurence Sterne
. Walden, H.D. Thoreau
. A Confession, Lev Tolstoi
. Joseph Fouché, Stephan Zweig
Additional bibliography or material:
Filmography:
. Manhattan, Woody Allen (1979)
. L¿Age d¿Or, Luís Buñuel (1930)
. The Circus, Charles Chaplin (1928)
. City Lights, Charles Chaplin (1931)
. 2001: A Space Odissey, Stanley Kubrick (1968)
. L¿arrivée d¿un train en gare de la Ciotat, Lumière brothers(1896)
. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Tony Richardson (1962)
. Dogville, Lars Von Trier (2003)
. Touch of Evil, Orson Welles (1958)
Painting references:
. Narcissus, Caravaggio (1597-99)
. Saint Matthew, Caravaggio (1602)
. The Cellist, Marc Chagall (1939)
. The Last Supper, Leonardo Da Vinci (1495-98)
. The Song of Love, Giorgio di Chirico (1914)
. Group on a Balcony, Goya (1810-15)
. Ferdinand VII of Spain, Goya (1814)
. The Shootings of May 3rd 1808, Goya (1814)
. The Giant, Goya (1818)
. Saturn Devouring His Son, Goya (1819-23)
. Cossacks, Wassilly Kandinsky (1912)
. Attempting the Impossible, René Magritte (1928)
. La Clairvoyance, Rene Magritte (1936)
. Execution of Maximilian of Mexico, Edouard Manet (1868)
. The Balcony, Edouard Manet (1868-69)
. Monet Working on His Boat, Edouard Manet (1874)
. The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo (1508-12)
. The Dying Slave, Michelangelo (1513)
. Impression, Sunrise, Claude Monet (1872)
. The Scream, Edvard Munch (1893)
. Love and Pain, Edvard Munch (1893-94)
. The Prophet, Emil Nolde (1912)
. Girl With Pigeon, Pablo Picasso (1901)
. Dove With Green Peas, Pablo Picasso (1912)
. Self-Portrait Facing Death, Pablo Picasso (1972)
. Autumn Rhythm, Jackson Pollock (1950)
. One (number 31, 1950), Jackson Pollock (1950)
. Easter and Totem, Jackson Pollock (1953)
. Search, Jackson Pollock (1955)
. Self-Portrait as a Young Man, Rembrandt (1628)
. Self-Portrait at an Easel, Rembrandt (1669)
. Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette, Pierre August Renoir (1876)
. Chained Prometheus, Peter Paul Rubens (1612)
. Saturn Devouring His Son, Peter Paul Rubens (1636)
. The water-seller of Seville, Velázquez (1620)
. Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window, Jan Vermeer (1659)
. View of Delft, Jan Vermeer (1661)