I've opted to put off the decision until next week. That gives me another 7 days to sweat it out :) Erin ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Henninge To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 6:54 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Erin's Course Dilemma I'm not one to talk, Erin, but you must stay the course. Your desire to take Derrida was no fluke: it was *Glas* ringing through you, viz. Derrida's opus on Hegel's dialectic. Keep all your courses, play your German card in the Derrida and Heidegger courses, that is, point out that a knowledge of the German reveals things unrevealed even to the translators, say, of Hegel, even to so astute an analyst as Derrida. I haven't had time to weigh in yet on the Ceres and Bacchus question you posed, but already from the responses and from a glance at the A.V. Miller translation you cited, I can see that there's a lot of fun to be had setting the ledger straight. If you do all this, your problems in German will solve themselves--because you will be actively using the German to pick deep into the subjects of _your other three classes_! You'll amaze your teachers, hold your scholarship, blow away the GREs and enroll in the graduate program in philosophy _of your choice_. Richard Henninge University of Mainz -----Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht----- Von: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von Erin Holder Gesendet: Sonntag, 16. Januar 2005 18:16 An: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Betreff: [lit-ideas] Erin's Course Dilemma I have a dilemma. You must advise me. I am enrolled in 4 courses this semester: 1) German 2) Schelling/Rosenzweig/Heidegger 3) Seminar: Derrida 4) Hegel (snip) Do I keep the Hegel class and put my other classes at risk or do I drop the Hegel class and suffer in the summer? Helllp meeeeee Erin Toronto ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html