Great Books of Early Modern World: Renaissance to Enlightenment

3 Credits

Multidisciplinary exploration of Great Books written between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. These core texts raise questions that have occupied Western societies ever since. Authors to be considered include Machiavelli, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Hobbes, Milton, Locke, Swift, Hume, Rousseau, Voltaire, Gibbon, Franklin, among others.