Modern Western culture is uniquely baffling, with its chaotic images, its incoherent messages, its confusing and contradictory moral values. This interdisciplinary course encounters not only the chaos, but the constructive responses to it articulated in the work of creative imaginations such as Richard Rodriguez, T.S. Eliot, Annie Dillard, Paul Tillich, Aaron Copland, Henry Moore, and Loren Eisley.