Jun 15, 2024  
2015-2016 Caspersen School of Graduate Studies Catalog 
    
2015-2016 Caspersen School of Graduate Studies Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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HC 854 - Confronting the Crisis of Reason: 20th Century European Intellectual History

3 credits
This course explores the rich intellectual life of the twentieth century, tracing how key thinkers responded to the political, social, and philosophical challenges of European modernity. The class examines the fraught re-working of 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, structuralism, and post-structuralism; featured thinkers include Freud, Heidegger, Schmitt, Adorno, Horkheimer, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Foucault, Derrida and Habermas among others.



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