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May 17, 2024
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HC 854 - Confronting the Crisis of Reason: 20th Century European Intellectual History3 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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