All courses numbered 500 and above are graduate courses.
Undergraduates need to submit a course permit to enroll.
HIST 620 Themes in European Intellectual History, 1870 - 1950
Taught as schedule allows (consult the Course Directory)
This course will examine selected movements and figures in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European intellectual and cultural history. The goal of the course is to deepen students' knowledge of this period and introduce them to important historiography and methodological approaches. We will read from the works of important figures like Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger and Sartre, as well as secondary works addressing wider themes, such as fin-de-siècle culture, the emergence and development of new disciplines, discourses of sexuality, race and degeneration, the intellectual origins of fascism, and intellectuals and politics.
