Twentieth-Century German and European Thought

3 credits · Undergraduate credit

This course will present a survey of the principal European intellectual movements of the twentieth century. We shall examine the interplay of political and cultural movements, and pay consistent attention to the difficulty of self-definition of the intellectual within rapidly changing social and cultural contexts. Socialism, Liberalism, Fascism, Surrealism, Existentialism, Cultural Marxism, Structuralism, Feminism, and Post-structuralism.