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Academic Year 2001/2002

Sophomore Seminar: Enlightenment Concept of the Self
HIST 153 SP

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

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Discussion

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-19-2002

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