Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: TOPICS IN MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY ***** Graduate research semninar on selected themes in modern European history. Topics vary. Spring 2004- "From Feuerbach to Nietzsche: Ethics and Politics after Religion." Course will combine close reading of several noted German thinkers of the second half of the 19th century with reading on the political and cultural context of Germany in the era of revolution and unification. Figures to be considered include Feuerbach, Marx, Schopenhauer, Moleschott, M. Reichardt-Stromberg, Lorenz von Stein, Wagner, Nietzsche, and Stoecker. Repeatable for Credit.