Course Resources for Speaking Across Differences: Navigating dialogue in polarized times

Session 1: Many Ways into Dialogue

Session 1 Video

Session 1 Slides

Suggested Resources

• I and Thou: Martin Buber’s Philosophy of Dialogue, an 11-minute documentary on Martin Buber with Ben Sax.
• “Why I, as a Black man, attend KKK rallies,” a TedTalk with Daryl Davis.
• “War” by Bob Marley

References Made in Class

• Class One, Slide 9: G W.F. Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of World History: Introduction, trans. H.B. Nishet (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), 78-79.
• Michel Foucault, Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics, trans. Hubert L. Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.
• Martha Nussbaum, The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
• Thomas Hobbes. Human Nature and De Corpore Politico. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. 
• Emmanuel Levinass, Totality and Infinity, trans. Alfonso Lingis. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1969.
• Martin Buber, I and Thou: 100th Anniversary Reissue, trans. Walter Kaufmann. New York: Free Press, 2023.
• Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method, trans. Joel Weinsheimer and DOnald G. Marshall. New York: Continuum, 1997.

Session 2: Dialogue as Liberation

Session 2 Video

Session 2 Slides

Session 3: Dialogue as Resistance

Session 3 Video

Session 3 Slides