Submitted by Margaret R. Hunt
on Monday, 1/19/2009, at 10:58 PM
The European Enlightenment
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The European Enlightenment
Listed in: History, as HIST-30
Faculty
Margaret R. Hunt (Section 01)
Description
(EUP) This course begins with the political, social, cultural and economic upheavals of late seventeenth-century England, France, and the Netherlands. The second part of the course will look at the Enlightenment as a distinctive philosophical movement, evaluating its relationship to science, to classical antiquity, to organized religion, to new conceptions of justice, and to the changing character of European politics. The final part will look at the Enlightenment as a broad-based cultural movement. Among the topics discussed here will be the role played by Enlightened ideas in the French Revolution, women and non-elites in the Enlightenment, scientific racism, pornography and libertinism, orientalism, and the impact of press censorship. Readings for the course will include works by Descartes, Locke, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, Hume, Adam Smith, Choderlos de Laclos, Kant and others. Two class meetings per week. Spring semester. Professor Hunt.
Course times and locations
HIST 30 - L/D
Section 01
Tu 10:00 AM - 11:20 AM BARR 102
Th 10:00 AM - 11:20 AM BARR 102
Offerings
2024-25: Not offeredOther years: Offered in Fall 2007, Spring 2009, Spring 2012