Status
Available
Call number
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Publication
The Great Courses (2002), 12 hours, 24 lectures
Description
This course examines major intellectual themes and debates in 20th-century European culture. It begins with the early century's revolutionary developments in thought and art, including the psychology of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, the social theory of Max Weber and Emile Durkheim, and the Modernist movement in literature and art exemplified by novelist Thomas Mann and artist Pablo Picasso. It then moves to a focus on the interwar development of political ideology and philosophy, followed by post-war trends. Here the emphasis is on Central European intellectuals, both those who came to America and those who remained at home.
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
6.9 inches
ISBN
1565851056 / 9781565851054
Local notes
*[01] The origins of 20th-century European thought [02] Universities, cities and the modern "culture industry" [03] Naturalism in fin-de-siècle literature [04] The new avant-garde literary culture [05] Rethinking the scientific tradition [06] The emergence of modern art [07] Émile Durkheim and French social thought [08] Max Weber and the new German sociology [09] The Great War and cultural pessimism [10] Sigmund Freud and psychoanalytic theory [11] Freud, Jung, and the constraints of civilized life [12] Poetry and surrealism after the Great War [13] The modern novel : Joyce and Woolf [14] The continental novel : Proust, Kafka, Mann [15] Language and reality in modern philosophy [16] Revisiting Marxism and liberalism [17] Responses to Nazism and the Holocaust [18] Existential philosophy [19] Literature and memory in postwar culture [20] Redefining modern feminism [21] History, anthropology and structuralism [22] Postculturalist thought : Foucault and Derrida [23] European postmodernism [24] Changes and traditions at century's end.