Individualism

One way to think of this course is as a study in obsessions in western thought because "individualism" "reason" etc. Have come to have this character. Obsessions are sometimes strange. I am told there was a band called "rage against the machine" (contra industrialism) a name that seemed strange when you consider that their electronic instruments were examples of the machines they were raging against
In another vein the great film director David Lean has given us a number of films on the pathos of the great individual. "Bridge on the River Kwai" and "Lawrence of Arabia" are films about heroic individuals who overreached themselves(a theme in Greek Tragedy) Dr. Zhivago is about an individual truing to survive as an individual in time of revolution"