Religious and Philosophical Roots of the Modern World 2

(Cross-listed as JS 30.)Major religious, philosophical, and scientific thinkers from the 16th to the 20th centuries whose influence led to the eclipse of the medieval worldview and the emergence of a modern one, as well as critics of European Modernity: Luther, Descartes, Copernicus, Kant, Hegel, Darwin, Nietzsche, Freud, Sartre, De Beauvoir, Fanon, and Ghandi.