Read or view before class:
Sebastian Junger, War Makes You an Animal and In Bitter Safety I Awake (from Tribe)
Prepare or organize before class:
Using Junger’s essays as a basis for thought, make two lists, one for each of the following questions:
What aspects of wartime – either directly as an enlisted person or even for civilians – appear to foster things that are good for human beings?
What aspects of modern peacetime or post-war experience in the United States are not good for returning soldiers or even civilians?
Come ready to work with your lists (and discuss these readings) in class and make connections to Existential philosophy and All My Sons