THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND ITS CRITICS

HISTORY/RELIGST 208

Survey of key themes in Western intellectual history and religious thought from ancient Greece through the Renaissance, focusing on relationships among classical, Jewish, and Christian traditions.

HISTSCI 911

Readings and/or research on the history of science in the 18th century. Topics vary.

HISTORY 707

Readings and/or research on the social, cultural, and political history of France from the late seventeenth century through the French Revolution.

HISTORY 420

Main currents of Russian social thought in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

HISTORY/RELIGST 209

A survey of major trends in Western intellectual history and religious thought in the modern era, a period that saw a new range of competing ideas about the divine, the human condition, justice and the social order, and the quest for meaning. Explores shifts in Christian and Jewish thought as well as secular alternatives to religious outlooks. Topics include the impact of the Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and Enlightenment; radical critiques of religion; existentialism; theological responses to World Wars and the Holocaust; and civil rights and social justice. Sources include films, novels, autobiographies, essays, theological works, and political manifestos.