LST 512 - Milton and Nietzsche: Prophets of Difference

This course will make a contrastive study of two giants of Western culture: John Milton, the seventeenth-century poet who writes to “justify the ways of God to men”; and Friedrich Nietzsche, the nineteenth-century post-Romantic philosopher who claims that “God is dead”, and then proceeds to explore the profound implications of that conclusion. Despite many profound differences, these two figures nevertheless bear uncanny resemblance to one another in their personal and intellectual lives as they seek to express views of human existence which are at once tragic and transcendent.

Credits: 3