European Intellectual History since Nietzsche
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Class 12: Heideggerean Existentialism
February 7, 2024 · 49 min“Dasein is an entity which does not just occur amongst other entities. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that, in its very being, that being is an issue for it.”—Martin Heidegger, Being and Time. HIST 271/HUMS 339: European…
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Class 11: Phenomenology
February 7, 2024 · 51 min“To the things themselves!”—Edmund Husserl. HIST 271/HUMS 339: European Intellectual History since Nietzsche is a survey course designed to introduce students to the dominant trends in modern European intellectual history. The class aims…
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Class 10: Modernism and the Avant-Garde
February 7, 2024 · 50 min“When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.”—Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis. HIST 271/HUMS 339: European Intellectual History since Nietzsche is a survey…
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Class 9: Freudian Psychoanalysis
February 7, 2024 · 52 min“The first of these displeasing propositions of psycho-analysis is this: that mental processes are essentially unconscious, and that those which are conscious are merely isolated acts and parts of the whole psychic entity.” – Sigmund…
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Class 8: Leninism, the Rushing of History
February 7, 2024 · 51 min“We have said that there could not have been Social-Democratic consciousness among the workers. It would have to be brought to them from without.”—V. I. Lenin, What Is To Be Done? HIST 271/HUMS 339: European Intellectual History since…
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Class 7: Henri Bergson – Revolt Against Positivism
February 7, 2024 · 51 min“All the molds crack.”— Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution. HIST 271/HUMS 339: European Intellectual History since Nietzsche is a survey course designed to introduce students to the dominant trends in modern European intellectual history…
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Class 6: Nietzsche and the Death of God
February 7, 2024 · 51 min“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we, the murderers of all murderers, comfort ourselves?”—Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science. HIST 271/HUMS 339: European Intellectual History since Nietzsche is a survey…
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Class 5: Marxism
February 7, 2024 · 50 min“A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of communism.”—Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto. HIST 271/HUMS 339: European Intellectual History since Nietzsche is a survey course designed to introduce students to the…