La Philosophie Francaise

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Study of the principal philosophical works and concepts of the 17th and 18th centuries. From Descartes?s famous break with the scholastic tradition to the philosophical foundations of the French Revolution, students will retrace the origins and early development of ?modern? philosophy. In the course of this investigation, students will also examine the reception of these central 17th- and 18th-century works by the most important philosophers of the 20th century (Adorno, Horkheimer, Merleau-Ponty, Cassirer, Foucault, Derrida, et. al.).