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Academic Year 2005/2006

Diderot
FREN 391 SP

This course provides a survey of the works of the French Enlightenment thinker Denis Diderot. Although this philosophe is generally associated with the realization of the massive Encyclopédie project, Diderot was an Enlightement polymath who, among other things, revolutionized the novel, contributed to the rise of new theatrical genre, pioneered art criticism, produced violent anticolonial texts, all of which were done against the backdrop of his dynamic materialist worldview. In reading a range of his works, members of this seminar will seek to position Diderot within the larger conceptual framework of French Enlightenment thought.

MAJOR READINGS

PENSEES PHILOSOPHIQUES
LA LETTRE SUR LES AVEUGLES
LE NEVEU DE RAMEAU
L'ENCYCLOPEDIE (selections)
JACQUES LE FATALISTE
LE REVE DE D'ALEMBERT
LE SUPPLEMENT AU VOYAGE DE BOUGAINVILLE
LA RELIGIEUSE

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

This is an upper level course intended for students who have completed at least one French literature course, or have studied abroad in a French-speaking country for at least a semester. Only COL students may take this course CR/U; all others must take it for a letter grade.

COURSE FORMAT: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA RLAN    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-30-2006

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