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Academic Year 2001/2002
Sophomore Seminar: Enlightenment Concept of the Self
HIST 153 FA
This course explores several Enlightenment thinkers who grappled to understand the paradoxes of the self at a time when traditional religious and metaphysical systems were disintegrating.
MAJOR READINGS
Diderot, RAMEAU'S NEPHEW, JACQUES THE FATALIST
Hume, TREATISE ON HUMAN NATURE
Rousseau, FIRST AND SECOND DISCOURSES, CONFESSIONS, ADVENTURES OF A SOLITARY WALKER, IDEA FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY, REVERIES OF THE
SOLITARY WALKER, EMILE
Kant,
WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT
Godwin, CALEB WILLIAMS
Wollstonecraft, VINDICATIONS OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN
Voltaire, CANDIDE
Laclos, LES LIASONS DANGEREUSES
Sterne, SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY
COURSE FORMAT:
Discussion
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-19-2002
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