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Academic Year 2004/2005


Modern Social Thought
HIST 350 SP

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
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 DISCOURSE OF MODERNITY

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Term paper, approximately 25 pages.

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-21-2005


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