Modernity and Its Discontents

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

This European intellectual history course introduces students to the temporal rupture called modernity—beginning with what Max Weber calls “disenchantment” and moving through the death of God—and ultimately the resignation from attempts to find a viable replacement for God. Topics include Marxism-Leninism, psychoanalysis, expressionism, structuralism, phenomenology, existentialism, anti-politics, and deconstruction. Authors include Nietzsche, Lenin, Kafka, Freud, Husserl, de Beauvoir, Heidegger, Arendt, Adorno, Sartre, Girard, Foucault, Derrida and Havel.