| | 1 | Introduction |  | 2 | Siegert, Hubertus. Berlin Babylon. (In-class screening) 
 Pinder, John. "What the EU is for," "Single Market, Single Currency," and "The EU and the Rest of Europe."
 
 Nietzsche, Friedrich. "The Four Great Errors."
 |  | 3 | Byatt, A. S. Babel Tower. 
 Nietzsche, Friedrich. "The 'Improvers of Mankind'"
 |  | 4 | Byatt, A. S. Babel Tower. 
 Noble, Michael J. "A Tower of Tongues."
 |  | 5 | Nietzsche, Friedrich. On the Advantages and Disadvantages of History for Life. |  | 6 | Hermann, Judith. "This Side of the Oder." 
 Kristeva, Julia. "Europe Divided: Politics, Ethics, Religion."
 |  | 7 | Schulze, Ingo. Simple Stories. 
 Wolf, Christa. "The Leftover Baggage of German History: Correspondence with Jürgen Habermas."
 |  | 8 | Wolf, Christa. Cassandra 3-138. 
 Bahro, Rudolf. "From Red to Green: Industrialism and Cultural Revolution."
 |  | 9 | Strauß, Botho. "Idiots of the Immediate." 
 Sloterdijk, Peter. "Cynicism — The Twilight of False Consciousness."
 |  | 10 | Vinterberg, Thomas. The Celebration. (In-class screening) 
 Aspects of Dogma: p.o.v.
 
 Foucault, Michel. "What is an Author?"
 |  | 11 | Houellebecq, Michel. The Elementary Particles. 
 Piper, Andrew. "Project Übermensch: German Intellectuals Confront Genetic Engineering."
 |  | 12 | Beuys, Joseph. Artworks. (In-class screening) 
 Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. "Beuys: The Twilight of the Idol."
 |  | 13 | Kristeva, Julia. "Europhilia-Europhobia." | 
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