The Age of Enlightenments

3 units

Introduction to European 18th-century cultures, particularly to their literatures and thought and the revolutionary foundations of modernity. Among the authors studied are Diderot, Feijoo, Goethe, Herder, Hume, Kant, Lessing, Pope, Rousseau, Sade, and Voltaire. Several lectures by specialists in the national literatures and in history.