AS 213.412 - What is Enlightenment?

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Johns Hopkins University

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Readings and discussions in German. “Enlightenment“, a European intellectual and social reform movement of the 18th century, advocated reason as the primary basis of authority and the means to scrutinize previously accepted doctrines and traditions. Thinkers in England, France, and later in Germany began to question the authoritarian state, and the orthodoxy of the Church. They attacked intolerance, censorship, and social restraints and argued in favour of the emancipation of the bourgeois individual on the basis of universally valid principles. This course offers an introduction to German Enlightenment through close readings of philosophical and literary texts. The analysis will focus on concepts of freedom, humanity and education, the significance of feelings and emotions for the constitution of individuality, and the critique of reason in late Enlightenment. Authors include: Gottsched, Lessing, Herder, Goethe, Mendelssohn, Kant.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.jhu.edu

Phone Number:

(410) 516-8000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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