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Sep 27, 2024
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HC 854 - Progress, Power, and Catastrophe: 20th Century European Intellectual and Cultural History3 credits
This course explores the rich intellectual life of the twentieth century, focusing on how key thinkers both contributed and responded to the enormous dislocations of European modernity. The class takes upthe radical challenges to the Enlightenment heritage; the promise and perils of politics as a means of redemption; the search for ethical commitment and moral order in the absence of absolutes; the critique of power as it operates in knowledge, institutions, and technology; and different visions of liberation. Individual units are devoted to psychoanalysis, western Marxism, existentialism, feminism, and post-structuralism; featured thinkers include Freud, Adorno, Horkheimer, Camus, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Marcuse, Foucault, Baudrillard, and Zizek, among others.
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