Kant, Hegel, Marx

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

Because of the deficiencies of the Registrar’s Software, the full name of this course is not displayed on its page. The full name is: Kant, Hegel, Marx: the Philosophy of History. We will be reading Kant’s short essays on the philosophy of history, all of Hegel’s lecture series on the philosophy of history, and selections from Marx on the topic. Among the themes of the course will be the idea of “historicism” itself as an approach to philosophical, intellectual and political questions, and whether it makes any sense to speak of political and moral progress. The course itself will be both historical and philosophical. We will be looking at the contexts in which the authors lived and wrote, and we will be evaluating them in light of what kinds of arguments they are making.