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How does time inflect the reception and the value of the artwork, both visual and written, and how do authors imagine their work is to survive physical destruction and temporal uprooting? How are the concepts of decadence, degeneration, catastrophe and palingenesis articulated? The course explores these questions and theorizes the existence of a relationship between models of transmission of aesthetic value and models of cultural, theological and biological evolution. Works by Perrault, Diderot, Falconet, Voltaire, Bonnet, Chateaubriand, Ballanche, Blanchot, T. S. Eliot.