Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: INTELLECTUALS AND POLITICS IN THE 20TH CENTURY EUROPE

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar explores intellectuals in politics throughout the 20th Century, investigating the figure of the "committed intellectual" and its attraction to revolution, fascism, anti-colonialism, human rights and anti-globalization. Special emphasis given to Emile Zola, Rosa Luxemburg, Maxime Gorki, Jean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Susan Sontag, Vaclav Havel, and Edward Said.