HIS 314 European Social and Intellectual History

In this course students will critically analyze a range of influential ideas, ideologies, and epistemologies from the Enlightenment to 'postmodernity' by using them as optics on the historical conditions and transitions that produced and gave them meaning. We will focus particularly on the mutually constitutive relationship between social subjectivity and the production and deployment of knowledge by mapping its complex processes of association, circulation, appropriation, and contestation. Topics will include: classical liberalism and political economy, trade unionism, ideologies of race and empire and their resistances, abolitionism, utopian and revolutionary socialism, anarchism, feminism, fascism, and existentialism. Fulfills writing-intensive requirement.Prerequisite: HIS 214, HIS 217, or HIS/POS 300.

Credits

4