Slow Syllabus
Twenty-six weeks of reading, framed and sequenced the way they are taught in a seminar room. Every core text is free and linked. There is nothing to buy, nothing to join, and no one keeping score.
Ten weeks on love, loss, and what makes a life good.
Friendship and intimacy, the death of love, the stories we inherit about who we are. The ancient argument that heartbreak is not a failure of happiness but one of the places character is made.
Sixteen weeks at the boundaries of human experience.
Mortality, natality, grief, and grievability. Gilgamesh through Anne Boyer. Who dies well, who dies badly, and whose deaths are publicly mourned.
Justin Neuman is Professor of Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College, The New School. These are his courses, not summaries of them. He wrote Fiction Beyond Secularism and co-wrote Modernism and Its Environments. More about the project.