European Thought in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

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This course is a survey of the main currents of European thought and ideology in the last two centuries. The works of major thinkers, such as Adam Smith, Marx, Tocqueville, Mill, Darwin, Weber, Durkheim, and Freud, will be read, analyzed, placed in historical context, and evaluated in terms of their intellectual tradition, influence, and implications. The ways in which twentieth-century thinkers have responded to giants of the nineteenth and to events of the twentieth will also be discussed.