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The concept of exile relies on the existence of differentiated space and of borders. It also presupposes affective attachment: to be exiled is to be forcibly removed from the space of belonging. And yet time cannot be excluded from a consideration of exile. Hence exilic chronotope, the timespace of forcible displacement. Beginning with the canonical banishment from the Garden of Eden, the seminar will trace the implications of exile in its historical and metaphysical sense: social alienation caused by displacement, creative fulfillment of the distance from home, phenomenological aspects of exilic topology. The readings and visual works will include Georg Simmel, Alfred Schuetz, Kurt Zadek Lewin, Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, Aby Warburg, Mascha Kaleko, Zuzanna Ginczanka, Charlotte Salomon, and Daniel Mendelson.