Description: FRENCH ENLIGHTENMENTS
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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).
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Course offered Fall 2004.
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Instructor(s): Shea