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Questions from a spring semester final

Honors Program 134: "Twentieth Century and the Tradition"
-Adjunct Associate Professor Michael Martin

1. a) Briefly state how three of the following four define or describe "human being" or "being human":
   • the Humanist Manifestos (consider these as one statement)
   • Sartre's Existentialism is a Humanism
   • Heidegger's Letter on Humanism
   • Derrida's The Ends of Man and On Forgiveness
     
     
   b) Use one of the following novels to explore this
   problem of "being human":
   • Michael Cunningham's The Hours
   • D.M. Thomas's The White Hotel
   • Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body
     
     
     
2. a) Describe the relationship between "love" and "desire" in each of the following:
   • Angela Carter's The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman
   • D.M. Thomas's The White Hotel
   • Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body
     
     
   b) Consider how each relates to one of the following
   • Heidegger's concept of "comportment"
   • Sartre's concept of "freedom"
   • Charles Taylor's concept of the "individual"

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