PLEASE KEEP ON MIND THAT THE FIRT PART OF THE ASSIGNEMENT IS DUE WITHIN 24 HOURS AND THE NEXT PART IS DUE SOMETIMES NEXT WEEK.
1.
Read Augustine’s Confessions (Puchner [v1] 833-858)
What is the THEMATIC significance of the following quote to the text as A WHOLE?
The very limit of human blindness is to glory in being blind
(Please keep on mind that I want you to analyze the THEME of the quotes not your explanation of the quote!!!)
Discuss and analyze the following themes in Confessions: self and language, self as representation, self as narrative, & the function of God in Augustine’s autobiographical project.
2. Read “The Enlightenment in Europe & the Americas”; Voltaire’s Candide (Puchner [v2] 3-11; 97-159) choose a quote plain the theatrical significance of the text as a whole.
Discuss and analyzes the Enlightenment, idealism versus empiricism, and resonances between Voltaire’s life and his text; analyze the significance of religion and representations of self, other, world in Candide