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Course examines the ways in which philosophers and imaginative writers, historians and philologists, artists and antiquaries, interpreted ancient texts and objects, from ca. 1400 to 1850.
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This course is a survey of the main themes (social, political, and intellectual) in the development of France since the last years of Louis XIV, followed by intensive study of the Revolution. A reading knowledge of French is required.
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Readings in the politcal, social, and cultural history of nineteenth-century France are the focus of this course. Topics include: the First and Second Empires, reaction and revolution, liberalism, France overseas, art and religion, the coming of the Third Republic.
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Seminar explores how claims for authority - political, legal, cultural - are established at the margins of the most prestigious mode of authority: the epistemic. Moving chronologically from the Renaissance to the 1990s across a variety of European contexts, this course examines a series of episodes in which the boundaries of knowledge were hotly disputed (astrology, alchemy, eugenics, etc.), thus providing a new perspective on some old tropes of European history, e.g., secularization, professionalization, liberalization.
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Discussions of the major controversies in the interpretation of modern German history. Was there a Jacobin movement in Germany? Did Germany follow a "peculiar path to modernity"? Other topics include 1848 as a social movement, the bases of German nationalism, Wilhelmine rule and the outbreak of war in 1914, the depression and the collapse of the Weimar Republic, the nature of the Nazi electorate and of the Nazi state, the Cold War and the division of Germany, Germany as "two states and one nation", and problems arising out of re-unification.
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This seminar will provide an introduction to recent theoretical debates and methodological approaches to 20th Century European intellectual and cultural history. Its central focus will be on the legacy of Marx, Nietzsche, and Weber for the debates on "enlightenment" and "counter-enlightenment" during the first half of the century. Among the thinkers we will be examining are: T.W. Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault, Martin Heidegger, Georg Lukacs, and Carl Schmitt.
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Many authors claim that, as the Holocaust is the traumatic experience of the twentieth century, it is extremely difficult to grasp, comprehend and portray. This seminar will investigate ways in which these difficulties manifest themselves in various kinds of personal writings. It will cover analysis of statements by witnesses (both of child age and adult), and texts of poets, prose writers and historians. We will read the works of T. Adorno, J. Andrzejewski, H. Arendt, Paul Celan, Anne Frank, S. Friedlander, Raul Hilberg, C. Milosz, M. Sebastian, and others.
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A survey of recent scholarship in the social and cultural history of Early Modern Europe, ca. 1400-1800. Includes both classic topics like Renaissance and Reformation, and newer subjects like gender and the transnational.
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This seminar will cover English history and historiography from about 1485 to 1689. While Ireland and Scotland will not be fully treated, they will receive attention as well as they are indispensable to an understanding of events in England. While the course is primarily organized on a chronological basis, special attention will be given to social and economic issues, as well as gender. An attempt will be made to balance classic historiographical debates with emerging problems and concerns.
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This reading course situates 18th and early 19th century British and Irish history in a broader European and global setting. It addresses issues of war and competing nationalisms; Britain's role as a European power, in an Atlantic community; as a constitutional model; and the changing domestic and international impact of the British Empire.
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