Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Twentieth Century European Intellectual History
Term
2025A
Subject area
COML
Section number only
401
Section ID
COML3923401
Course number integer
3923
Meeting times
MW 10:15 AM-11:44 AM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Warren G. Breckman
Description
European intellectual and cultural history from 1870 to 1950. Themes to be considered include aesthetic modernism and the avant-garde, the rebellion against rationalism and positivism, Social Darwinism, Second International Socialism, the impact of World War One on European intellectuals, psychoanalysis, existentialism, and the ideological origins of fascism. Figures to be studied include Nietzsche, Freud, Woolf, Sartre, Camus, and Heidegger.
Course number only
3923
Cross listings
HIST3923401
Use local description
Yes