Class 2: The Heritage of the Enlightenment

Class 2: The Heritage of the Enlightenment

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Class 3: The Legacy of Romanticism

“You see, gentlemen, reason is unquestionably a fine thing, but reason is no more than reason, and it gives fulfillment only to man’s reasoning capacity, while desires are a manifestation of the whole of life. . .”—Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground. HIST 271/HUMS 339: Eur ...  Show more

Class 4: Hegel and the Historicist Chronotope

“The truth is the whole.” –G. W. F. Hegel, Phenomenology of the Spirit. HIST 271/HUMS 339: European Intellectual History since Nietzsche is a survey course designed to introduce students to the dominant trends in modern European intellectual history. The class aims to sketch a na ...  Show more

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