Listed in: History, as HIST-203
Adi Gordon (Section 01)
[EU/TC] This course explores the intellectual history of the “Age of Extremes” by focusing on its feuding political ideas and their chief advocates: the public intellectuals. Liberalism, Conservatism, Communism, and Fascism were all created by intellectuals, and all relied on intellectuals for their ideological struggle. The course will investigate the many – glorious and inglorious – careers of intellectuals of very different agendas, polities, legacies and fates (Arendt, Gramsci, De Beauvoir, Sartre, Orwell, Schmitt, to name a few). The course thus has two goals: first, it is an introduction to twentieth-century political ideas in their historical contexts; second, it is an examination of public intellectuals, their history, role, responsibility and even accountability. Course materials will include historical analysis and works of fiction; works of propaganda and works of art; manifestos and political trial confessions. Two class meetings per week.
Fall semester. Professor A. Gordon.
Section 01
Tu 02:30 PM - 03:50 PM CHAP 101
Th 02:30 PM - 03:50 PM CHAP 101
This is preliminary information about books for this course. Please contact your instructor or the Academic Coordinator for the department, before attempting to purchase these books.
| ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Communist Manifesto | Amherst Books | TBD | ||||
| Marx: A Very Short Introduction | Amherst Books | TBD | ||||
| Foucault: A Very Short Introduction | Amherst Books | TBD | ||||
| Voltaire: A Very Short Introduction | Recommended Only | Amherst Books | TBD | |||
| Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction | Recommended Only | Amherst Books | TBD | |||
| The Wretched of the Earth | Recommended Only | Amherst Books | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.