"What did I care about my hammer, about my bolt, about thirst and death? There was, on one star, on one planet, on mine, the Earth, a little prince to be consoled!" ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry We shall be reading three short works of fiction from the 20th Century: The Prophet by Khalil Gibran, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield. We will endeavor to appreciate these masterful works in their fullness as pure art, as well as explore what meanings they hold for us in our relationships with other people and our existence in the world. We will, from time to time, bring into our discussion excerpts from the writings of post-Enlightenment philosophers such as William James, Martin Buber, and Emmanuel Levinas to aid us in understanding advanced interpersonal metaphysics (ethics and phenomenology) as they have developed through the industrial era of humanity.