Opening Music, “Sympathy for the Devil,” from the album Beggar’s Banquet, By the Rolling Stones, 1968. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBecM3CQVD8

HUM 102 Final Lecture Prof. Ruth M. McAdams 15 May 2017

Overview of Lecture 1. Modernity and Periodization 2. A Few Themes 3. Closing Remarks

Modernity and Periodization Part One. from Fifty Days at Iliam, 1978. by Cy Twombly. Philadelphia Museum of Art Modernity and Periodization

“If a man or a people seize an immense territory and shut out the rest of the world, won’t this be merely a grab that ought to be punished? The answer is surely ‘yes’ . . . . When Balboa stood on the sea-shore and took possession of the south seas and the whole of South America in the name of the Spanish crown, was that enough to dispossess all their actual inhabitants and to shut out from those territories all the princes of the world?”

“If a man or a people seize an immense territory and shut out the rest of the world, won’t this be merely a grab that ought to be punished? The answer is surely ‘yes’ . . . . When Balboa stood on the sea-shore and took possession of the south seas and the whole of South America in the name of the Spanish crown, was that enough to dispossess all their actual inhabitants and to shut out from those territories all the princes of the world?” Rousseau, P167.

Part Two. Common Themes. Humanism, Identity, and the Body

Kara Walker, Sugar Sphinx

City Life

from “To a Passer-By” A lightning flash... then night! Fleeting beauty By whose glance I was suddenly reborn, Will I see you no more before eternity? P227

City Life hüzün

History

Darwin and Social Darwinism

Darwin and Social Darwinism

Part Three. Closing Thoughts

The Dialogic Nature of Learning and Knowledge