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Home is a place of comfort and belonging; it is a domestic setting, a language, a nationality and a series of identifications which ‘place’ and maintain individuals. Where I am at home, I feel coincident with myself. The notion of home is opposed to key diagnoses of the modern condition--as alienated, displaced, estranged and uncanny, for example. These diagnoses have been applied both to psychological conditions and to actual social phenomena of mass displacements, refugees, immigration and exile. The social imaginary of many historically displaced groups centres around the return to or establishment of a homeland.   This class will consider literary and artistic representations of ‘home’, the phenomenology of ‘homeliness’ and of its strange double, the uncanny (unheimlich), and the stakes that post-war philosophy has in the notions of rootedness, place and dwelling.