KARL MARX IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT: SECULARIZATION, REVOLUTION, THE WORLD

Credit Hours: 3 · Undergraduate Upper-Level

Karl Marx's life and work reflected and criticized ideas and processes of 19th-century modernity. We will combine contextual lectures and readings with a close analysis of his place in historical context, the development of socialism, philosophical and historical materialism, the analysis of capitalism, and the development of the modern state. Course reading will focus on Marx's own writings.