Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: FRENCH ENLIGHTENMENTS

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: What is Enlightenment? Does it define a period, an idea, a group of writers? Was there one Enlightenment or many? What is specific to the French Enlightenment? Readings include key eighteenth-century texts and major attempts to define Enlightenment (Casirer, Gay, Habermas, Roche, Gordon).