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Academic Year 2000/2001


Modern Social Thought
HIST 276 FA

This course is a study of the major European thinkers of the 19th and 20th centuries who made attempts to apply their theories as systematic forms toward explaining and understanding the historical process and the interrelationship of individuals, theorists and literary figures of the period.

MAJOR READINGS

Hegel, PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY (History) Marx, GERMAN IDEOLOGY Dostoyevsky, NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Nietzsche, ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORALS LeBon, CROWD Freud, GROUP PSYCHOLOGY AND ANALYSIS OF THE EGO Freud, CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS Engles, THE ORIGIN OF THE FAMILY Zola, GERMINAL Proust, SWANN'S WAY Flaubert, MADAME BOVARY Foucault, THE ORDER OF THINGS Weber, THE PROTESTANT ETHIC AND THE SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM Mannheim, IDEOLOGY AND UTOPIA Habermas, THE PHILOSOPHIC DISCOU RSE OF MODERNITY

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Term paper, approximately 25 pages.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Additional Requirements and/or Comments not known

COURSE FORMAT: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS HIST    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-26-2001


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