Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain

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Delve into Thomas Mann's literary masterpiece, 'The Magic Mountain,' at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. This course invites exploration into the profound themes of love, loss, time, and the human condition against the backdrop of prewar Europe. Analyzing Mann's work alongside medical journals, reviews, and lectures, participants will ponder questions of health, the evolving nature of time in modernity, and the pursuit of enchantment in a rapidly changing world.

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Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain tells the story of Hans Castorp, an ordinary young man who goes to visit his cousin Joachim in a Swiss tuberculosis sanatorium for three weeks and ends up staying for seven years. Set on the precipice of World War One, the novel captures the spirit of prewar Europe and the ailments of the modern world: isolation, mass epidemics, the plight of progress and industrial alienation. Mann’s ever-timely novel offers meditations on love, loss, time, what it means to become a person in the world, and what it means to face death. In this course we will read the entirety of The Magic Mountain alongside short selections from medical journals, critical reviews, Mann’s correspondence, and lectures, while asking: What does it mean to be healthy? What is time? How does modernity change our conception of time? How might we think about enchantment in the modern world?

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No refunds or credits will be given after the second class.

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