the question of consent.

if i weren't so embarrassed about seeing her (after making such a pig's breakfast of my paper in my last class with her) and if it weren't a 100 level (and i have had done with 100 level classes - they're more trouble than they're worth, and anyway i'm supposed to take only seminars next semester.)

now if both of those considerations were unimportant to me, i would probably take this class with elaine scarry, but as it is, i can only post the description here and long after it.

“Consent” in literature, medicine, political philosophy, and law. Four major topics are freedom of movement (Locke’s Second Treatise, Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, DeQuincey’s English Mail-Coach, Harlan’s dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson), constitution and contract-making (European city contracts, Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Federalist Papers), the grounding of consent in the body (Plato’s Crito, Euripides’ Hecabe, Donne’s poetry, Rousseau’s Social Contract, contemporary medical case law), and decision making in war (Homer’s Iliad, Sophocles’ Philoctetes).