NU Splash Biography

The overwhelming power of 'The Absolute' has guided and plagued mankind in all its ages. The Crusades slaughtered the Infidel with the absolute approval of God; the Soviet Union razed the face of Russia with the sanction of a greater vision of society; Hitler Germany justified its reign in a pseudo-scientific conclusion that a dictatorship was the only possible salvation for a demoralized country in a demoralized modern age. In this class we will examine the theme common to the most dazzling and most horrifying endeavors of mankind--the power of the more-than-human, the myth, the unquestionable, all that which "comes from the sky." By looking at a mixture of psychology, political science, theology, and our own motivations, we will sketch a clearer picture of the shadow the light from the sky has cast--and today still casts--on earth.