HISTORY 346 - Technology and Social Thought in 20th Century Europe

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Reed College

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Full course for one semester. "The fully enlightened Earth radiates disaster triumphant." So the German philosophers Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer argued in 1944, just before Hiroshima provided an eerilyliteral proof. Their unease was shared by many. Something about humanity's attempt to master the world by technological means had gone seriously awry. This course will examine how European intellectuals of the 20th century revisited notions of culture, nature, politics, economics, and religion as part of a wide-ranging reassessment of the modern age prompted by the rise of technocracy. Conference. Not offered 2009-10

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.reed.edu

Phone Number:

(503) 771-1112

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

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Semester

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