Early Modern Theories of Everything
For those whose telos for an education includes the Great Books, this class is a dream come true.
Mme. de Lafayette, Boswell, Voltaire, Gibbon, Diderot, Rousseau, Laclos, Goethe, Wollstonecraft and Blake are all part of the program, according to the syllabus.
"I have taught various seminar versions of the class over the years," says Bernbaum Professor of English Leo Damrosch. "But the majority of them were for graduate students."
Damrosch says that he has always wanted to teach the course as a larger lecture. The Core was willing to oblige.
"It was a successful seminar, and I taught it last summer in the summer school as a trial run," Damrosch says. "It seemed that there was a general interest in the subject."
The weighty subject--the self--means students will be asked to scrutinize the assigned texts. No breezy scans permitted.
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