HUMN540  - Beginnings of the Enlightenment

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This course provides philosophical, artistic, and literary views of the human condition as it has been viewed in recent history, beginning with the Enlightenment. There will be an examination of the lyric poetry and the novel of the era, an assessment of the philosophic tradition and its opponents, and a closer look at the modern condition developed into the twentieth century. Readings for this course include: Jonathan Swift's Gulliver’s Travels; Jean Jacques Rousseau's The Confessions; Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals; and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

 

Prerequisites

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Corequisites

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Schedule of Classes

Registration Dates Course Dates Session
09/26/11 - 02/26/12 03/05/12 - 06/24/12 Winter 2012 Session C - 16 Week session

Course Materials

Book Title: Confessions - available online at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3913
ISBN: 0199540039
Publication Info: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2000
Author: Rousseau, J.
Unit Cost: $12.95

Book Title: Ethical Philosophy: Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals and Metaphysical Principles of Virtue - available online at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5682
ISBN: 0872203204
Publication Info: Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated, 1994
Author: Kant, Immanuel
Unit Cost: $14.00

Book Title: Pride and Prejudice - available online at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1342
ISBN: 0393976041
Publication Info: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 2000
Author: Austen, Jane
Unit Cost: $15.25

Book Title: Gulliver's Travels - available online at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/829
ISBN: 0393957241
Publication Info: W.W. Norton & Company Ltd, 2002
Author: Swift, Jonathan
Unit Cost: $18.00

Book Title: Memoirs of Princess Dashkova
ISBN: 0822316218
Publication Info: Duke University Press
Author: Dashkova, Ekaterina R.
Unit Cost: $26.00

Book Title: Vindication of Rights of Woman - 3rd ed
ISBN: 0393929744
Publication Info: W.W. Norton & Co
Author: Wollstonecraft, Mary
Unit Cost: $15.25

 
 
 

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