Nineteenth-Century German and European Intellectual History

3 credits · Undergraduate credit

Between the upheavals of the French Revolution and the First World War, the European nations witnessed an utter transformation of their world. The relations of person to the nation, to the state, to history, and the physical world were rethought from top to bottom. Our exploration of modern ideas will take us from rationalism to racism, and from utopian ideologies to the birth of psychoanalysis.