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December 10 1999
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Peter Howard
8 points + 2 lectures and 1 tutorial per week + First semester + Clayton
Synopsis: A study of the belief that the end of the world is at hand and that in its wake will appear the world of the Golden Age. The progress of /millenarian0 thought from the first-century Eastern Mediterranean world to the medieval imagination and moderns like Karl Marx, Francis Fukuyama and Jacques Derrida, and modern media and film. The relation of apocalyptic traditions to religious, social and political change. Contemporary concepts of ecology, time and change and the promise of the modern metropolis.
Assessment: Essay writing exercise (400 words): 5% + Presentation and essay (1200 words): 25% + Two tutorial reports (300 words each): 10% + Essay (1800 words): 35% + Test (2 hours) or additional 2000-word essay: 25%
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December 10 1999