Jean-Pierre Dupuy
Stanford University

 Jean-Pierre Dupuy
Stanford University

"The Problem of Evil
in Literature, Film, and Philosophy"

Stanford University, Building 260, Room 002
Class #5: Monday, May 4, 2009, 3:15-6:05 pm

Edited by Peter Y. Chou
WisdomPortal.com

The Problem of Evil in Literature, Film, and Philosophy (FRENGEN 265)— Class #5:
Reading assignments for today's seminar were Arendt's's Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), Susan Neiman's Evil in Modern Thought (2002), "Terror: After September 11" (pp. 281-288), and two papers by Professor Dupuy— "Theory of Mimetic Desire and Underground Psychology" (René Girard's philosophy) (17 pages) & "Anatomy of 9/11: Evil, Rationalism, and the Sacred" (27 pages). Professor Dupuy was kind to download his PowerPoint presentation from his laptop to my USB drive after class (5-7-2009), so I'm sharing it below in HTML with my added commentaries and web links.

Slides from Professor Dupuy's PowerPoint Presentation:

(#115) Shoah

(#116)

(#117)
George Segal (1924-2000),

(#118)



(#119)
The question why is obscene:

"The evil of Hitler cannot or
should not be explained and
to do so is immoral."
— Claude Lanzmann


(#120)
Henryk Górecki, Symphony #3, Op. 36
"Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" (1976)


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