ITALIAN 220 - Forbidden Books,Prohibited Knowledge

Institution:

Bard College

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Description:

Human Rights Restrictions on speech or the access to knowledge are most often assumed to derive from some basic act of manipulation or corrupt motivation. But is censorship decreed by political or intellectual authorities ever legitimate? And is there knowledge meant to remain beyond human reach or revealed only to a special few? This course explores the historical faces of forbiddenness and the subversions of it from antiquity to the 18th century through the works of Plato, Dante, Petrarch, Galileo, Descartes, Montaigne, Marlowe, Milton, Defoe, and Rousseau. Students also consider the rise of private and public societies in the early modern period as they relate to the idea of accessing, circumscribing, and censoring different bodies of knowledge. The course is conducted in English.

Credits:

4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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