HIS 3304 - Modern European Intellectual History

Institution:

The College of Saint Scholastica

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Description:

4 cr. This course will explore some of the critical issues and currents in European intellectual history fromthe eighteenth century to the present. Themes and topics include the European Enlightenment and its legacy; the idea of progress;modern social philosophies and ideologies such as liberalism, conservatism, socialism and anarchism; Romanticism and nationalism; communism and fascism; major developments in philosophical, religious, historical, and scientific thought; and recent trends such as feminism, existentialism, deconstruction,postcolonialism, and postmodernism. The course will consider thinkers such as Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Darwin, Nietzsche, Freud, Einstein, Heidegger,Adorno, Sartre and Foucault.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Additional Information:

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Institution Website:

www.css.edu

Phone Number:

(218) 723-6000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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