JAN 320 - Tolstoy: Art, Faith, Philosophy, Politics

Modality: In-person
Level: Upper Division (300 Level)
Course Times: 9:15am - 11:55am
Note: See the Jan Term website for meeting days if not specified here.
Course Materials Fee: None

Instructor(s): Arndt, David
Email: dda2@stmarys-ca.edu

This will be a seminar-style discussion-based course on the works of Leo Tolstoy, who is widely considered one of the greatest novelists of all time, but who was also a religious thinker, and theorist of art, and a proponent of nonviolence who corresponded with Gandhi and who influenced Martin Luther King Jr. We will read King’s speech, “Love, Law, and Civil Disobedience,” short selections from Tolstoy’s theories of politics and art, but mostly we will read Tolstoy’s short “Confession,” and his very great and very long novel Anna Karenina.

Prerequisites & Notes
None

Credits: 3-CU