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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
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Last Updated on MAR-26-2001
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