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Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé · Vanity of Vanities: Meaningless from Ecclesiastes to Today
- Pacific Time Virtual Program
$54.00
This course explores the urgent, ancient question of meaning, purpose, and futility through the lens of "vanity"—both as biblical emptiness (fleeting as breath) and modern self-obsession.
Starting with the Book of Ecclesiastes, we will study scripture, novels, essays, and films that ask: what makes life meaningful amidst crisis, death, and the absurd? This inquiry feels especially urgent in our age of social media, AI, and climate emergency.
We will study 20th and 21st-century texts that wrestle with existence's toughest puzzles: identity, life and death, gender, queer existence, oppression, and the gap between everyday life and higher significance. We'll examine how these writers balance hope against despair, and learn to distinguish genuine insight from empty platitudes by connecting texts to our own lives. The class format combines lecture, student-led discussions, and presentations.
Four Mondays: January 12, 19, 26 and February 2 at 6:30–8pm
Please note: This program will not be recorded.
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