HON 3013 - Great Books Lecture IV: The Modern World

Credits: 3 Spring

A study of the distinctively modern conception of reason arising in the eighteenth century and of the subsequent challenges to that conception. Topics include the scientific revolution, the philosophies, the American and French revolutions, liberalism and its discontents, and Romantic literature. A study of the modern world and of today, including developments in literary modernism, positivist and existentialist philosophies, international conflict, post-colonialism, postmodern thought and Christian responses.

Prerequisites: HON 2543 and HON 2643.