HIST 340 Modern European Intellectual History I

Examines the major trends and great individual works of modern European thought by situating them in their historical contexts, with an emphasis on the development of social and political thought. First semester: the Enlightenment to the mid-nineteenth century; explorations of works by Voltaire, Hume, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, the Romantics, Hegel, Marx, Hobbes, Locke, Mill, and others.

Credits

3