Topic:

a term paper that tracks the development of the concept of “individualism” and its reconstruction and deconstruction in the modernist culture till postmodernism. This
study will examine three disciplines like painting literature, etc and will reflect on the readings assigned. The idea of the one in the many and the many in the one
should be explored

a cultural history course of the West from the Early Modern period of the late 16thc until present. The paper should be 30 pages and should be generational study of
the the concept of “individualism” (from modernism to postmodernism) and examined in three disciplines (visual art,philosophy,science, literature etc).The writer
should use most of the references I send but can use few extra ones if needed. In terms of books, these are Required Texts:
Goethe, Sufferings of Young Werther
Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Nietzsche, The Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life
Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz
Simon Mawer, The Glass Room
Charles Jencks, The Story of Post-Modernism
There are also some reading from a course reading booklet which I will state here:
Descartes “Meditations”
Thomas Hobbes “Theseus Riddle”
Leibniz “Monadology” (individuation within an in-common shared objectivity)
Hobbes ” Of Man”
Locke “Of Identity and Diversity” and Republican perspective of property and personal identity
Pascal “The Provincial Letters”
Aesthetic debate of Voltaire, Montesquieu, and D’Alembert