History of Philosophy: 19th Century Continental

3 credits · Undergraduate

(3 hrs Lecture) This course examines a limited but representative selection of Continental philosophers and themes from the 19th and 20th centuries. The philosophers may include such figures as Hegel, Schopenhauer, Comte, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Bergson. Possible themes are the idea of historical development, the competing claims of the sciences and the humanities, the attack on reason and objectivity, the assertion of the primacy of the will, and the analysis of the human condition.