Modernity and Its Critics ((3))

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This course explores the question that stirred many of the foremost minds in German-speaking lands in the nineteenth century: 'What is Enlightenment'. The course begins by examining Kant's classic answer to this question, as Kant's statement remains the explicit or implicit referent for all further debate. Critics of modernity to be examined include such philosophers as Hegel, Schopenhauer, Marx, and Nietzsche.