HUMN541  - Enlightenment and the Modern World

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This course focuses on the culmination of Enlightenment principles as they develop in the New World and into the 19th Century. Readings for this course include Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Song of Myself, and There Was a Child Went Forth; Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil; Fyodor Dostoesvsky's Crime and Punishment; and Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.