HIST276

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HIST276

Modern Social Thought HIST276 SP

Spring 97 Availability (Last Updated on Sat Mar 8 05:00:06 EST 1997 )

Section  Limit  Enrollment  Available
  01       20      11         9

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 DISCOURSE OF MODERNITY

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Term paper, approximately 25 pages.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

COURSE FORMAT: Discussion Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 1.00 Gen Ed Area & Dept: SBS HIST

Prerequisites: None

Section 01: Holmes, O; Times: .T..... 1:10PM;; Grading Mode: A/F; Registration Preference (1 high to 6 low, 0=Excluded) Sr: 1, Jr: 2, So: 3, Fr: 0; No Major Preference Given

Last Updated on MAR-10-1997

About the Photo:

Karl Marx was exiled from Germany for his part in the 1848 revolution

Reference:

Briggs, Asa. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: THE CONTRADICTIONS OF PROGRESS, London: McGraw-Hill, 1970 and THE BEST OF LIFE, New York: Time-Life Books, 1973 (page 237)

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