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Course Info

  • Course Number / Code:
  • 21F.059 (Spring 2008) 
  • Course Title:
  • European Thought and Culture 
  • Course Level:
  • Undergraduate 
  • Offered by :
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Massachusetts, United States  
  • Department:
  • Foreign Languages and Literatures 
  • Course Instructor(s):
  • Prof. Thomas Nolden 
  • Course Introduction:
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  • 21F.059 European Thought and Culture



    Spring 2008




    Course Highlights


    This course features links to many downloadable readings.


    Course Description


    This subject surveys main currents of European cultural and intellectual history in the modern period. Such a foundation course is central to the humanities in Europe. The curriculum introduces a set of ideas and arguments that have played a formative role in European cultural history, and acquaints them with some exemplars of critical thought. Among the topics to be considered: the critique of religion, the promise of independence, the advance of capitalism, the temptations of Marxism, the origins of totalitarianism, and the dialects of enlightenment. In addition to texts, we will also discuss pieces of art, incl. paintings and film.
     

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