Fall 2008

Transformative Ideas

Listed in: First Year Seminar, as FYSE-24

Faculty

Thomas L. Dumm (Section 01)

Description

In this course we will explore a series of ideas from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that have substantially changed the way people think about humanity. Each idea is closely associated with an author. While from year to year the ideas and thinkers will shift, for 2008 we will closely read and write about several of Karl Marx’s early essays, Friedrich Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals, Sigmund Freud’s final book, Moses and Monotheism, Max Weber’s essays “Science as a Vocation” and “Politics as a Vocation,” Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem, Isaiah Berlin’s, Four Essays on Liberty, and Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish. Fall semester. Professor Dumm.

FYSE 24 - L/D

Section 01
Tu 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM CLAR 100
Th 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM CLAR 100

Offerings

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2007, Fall 2008