Introduction (back to top)

• Classes this week were based on the five essays in the reader (contents, nos. 11-15):
• exerpts from the published diary ("version c"), Oct. 3 - Dec. 10, 1942
• selection from the "Critical edition" (versions a, b, c), Oct. 3 - Oct. 15/20, 1942
• selection from the 1998 biography by Melissa Müller (pp. 198-224)
  • we also viewed the complete 3-hour ABC video biography based on Müller's book, "Anne Frank: The Whole Story" (2001)
• essay by Alvin Rosenfeld, "The Anne Frank We Remember" (1989)
• article by Kristallnacht-survivor Bruno Bettelheim about the Franks' lack of "resistance" (1960) and letter
• The theme of the lectures was the connection between individual actions and collective effects, and the inverse: the individual consequences of collective actions.
• The lectures had 5 parts:
  1. Theories of individual morality and how the moral behaviors of social groups aggregates to produce certain outcomes (Kohlberg/Habermas, and my own "see-saw model")
  2. Anne Frank the person vs. Anne Frank the abstract, representative symbol
  3. Contextualizing Anne Frank's story (the groups odyssey through Europe, 1934-1945)
  4. Examination of the various versions of the diary and how they differ
  5. Discussion of readings and specific questions (like: who betrayed the Franks and their friends?).

1.Theories of Morality and Social moral behavior (back to top)

Habermas after Kohlberg

2. Anne Frank: Person vs. Abstract Symbol (back to top)

3. Contextualizing the Franks' Odyssey (back to top)

4. Versions of the Diary (back to top)

Discussion (back to top)

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