关于此课程： This course examines how the idea of "the modern" develops at the end of the 18th century in European philosophy and literature, and how being modern (or progressive, or hip) became one of the crucial criteria for understanding and evaluating cultural change. Are we still in modernity, or have we moved beyond the modern to the postmodern?
授课大纲
第 1 周
Course Pages
“The Modern and the Postmodern Part I” covers the first half of a full semester course on European history, literature and philosophy. We begin with Immanuel Kant and Jean Jacques Rousseau and conclude with Friedrich Nietzsche and Charles Baudelaire and a very quick look at painting at the time they wrote. Although in the final week themes of postmodernism begin to emerge, a discussion of how modernism becomes postmodernism is at the heart of Part II of this course.
2 个阅读材料
- Leyendo: Syllabus
- Leyendo: Course Logistics
Philosophy, Modernity, and Intellectual History
Why is philosophy relevant to modernity?
Through reading Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant, we examine philosophy as a reflection on modernity and progress.
2 个视频, 1 个阅读材料
- Leyendo: Philosophy and Modernity -- Kant
- 视频: Philosophy, Modernity, and Intellectual History II
第 2 周
What is Enlightenment?
Using Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, we study how the pursuit of knowledge is related to the politics of inequality.
4 个视频, 1 个阅读材料
- Leyendo: What is Enlightenment?--Rousseau
- 视频: What is Enlightenment? II
- 视频: What is Enlightenment? III
- 视频: What is Enlightenment? IV
第 3 周
From Enlightenment to Revolution
Karl Marx is our focus here as we move from a consideration of ideas to a confrontation with alienation, class struggle and revolution.
5 个视频, 1 个阅读材料
- Leyendo: From Enlightenment to Revolution--Marx
- 视频: From Enlightenment to Revolution II
- 视频: From Enlightenment to Revolution III
- 视频: From Enlightenment to Revolution IV
- 视频: From Enlightenment to Revolution V
已评分: First Writing Assignment
第 4 周
Modernism and Art for Art's Sake
We read Flaubert’s Madame Bovary as a reflection on convention, stupidity and art in the wake of the failures of mid-19th century revolution.
4 个视频, 1 个阅读材料
- Leyendo: Modernism and Art for Art's Sake--Flaubert
- 视频: Modernism and Art for Art's Sake II
- 视频: Modernism and Art for Art's Sake III
- 视频: Modernism and Art for Art's Sake IV
已评分: Second Writing Assignment
第 5 周
Re-imagining the World
We situate Charles Darwin’s great achievement in the context of the English Enlightenment traditions and reimaging the world without a goal for change.
4 个视频, 1 个阅读材料
- Leyendo: Re-imagining the World--Darwin
- 视频: Re-imagining the World II
- 视频: Re-imagining the World III
- 视频: Re-imagining the World IV
第 6 周
From Struggle to Intensity
Through an examination of Charles Baudelaire and Friedrich Nietzsche, we focus on an aesthetic embrace of intensity instead of search for the “really real.”
6 个视频, 1 个阅读材料
- Leyendo: From Struggle to Intensity--Baudelaire and Nietzsche
- 视频: From Struggle to Intensity II
- 视频: From Struggle to Intensity III
- 视频: From Struggle to Intensity IV
- 视频: From Struggle to Intensity V
- 视频: From Struggle to Intensity VI
已评分: Third Writing Assignment
第 7 周
Paintings
A Quick Survey of how advanced painting moved toward a consideration of the surface of the canvas and away from a quest for the most realistic representation of the world.
2 个视频
- 视频: Paintings II
常见问题解答
运作方式
Trabajo del curso
Cada curso es como un libro de texto interactivo, con videos pregrabados, cuestionarios y proyectos.
Ayuda de tus compañeros
Conéctate con miles de estudiantes y debate ideas y materiales del curso, y obtén ayuda para dominar los conceptos.
Certificados
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制作方
Wesleyan University
At Wesleyan, distinguished scholar-teachers work closely with students, taking advantage of fluidity among disciplines to explore the world with a variety of tools. The university seeks to build a diverse, energetic community of students, faculty, and staff who think critically and creatively and who value independence of mind and generosity of spirit.
评分和审阅
Love the course so much. I've already known a little bit about every thinker and writer mentioned in the course but haven't noticed how they are related to each other. Now everything makes so much sense! :D Although it's a bit hard to catch up since my mother tongue is not English, I'm very happy to learn many new words. Thanks for everyone who makes the course online! :)
Perfect!!
Very interesting subject matter, and the course was well organized and accessible. Would recommend taking the course to those interested in late Western philosophy.
WZ
A very comprehensive introduction about modern philosophy, etc.