The Enlightenment Invention of the Modern Self

by Leo Damrosch

Tape (Cassette, etc.) sound recording, 2003

Status

Available

Call number

190

Collections

Publication

Teaching Company (2003), Audio Cassette, 12 cassettes and booklets of 53 & 54 pages

Description

Professor Leo Damrosch of Harvard University presents this course which introduces the major thinkers of the Enlightenment and their works. The discussion centers on the concept of self and how it changed during this time.

Language

Original language

English

ISBN

none

Local notes

[01] Changing ideas of the self [02] 17th century religious versions of the self [03] 17th century secular versions of the self [04-05] Lafayette, La Princesse de Clèves [06-07] British Empiricism and the self [08] Voltaire: Candide [09] Voltaire, Johnson, Gibbon: Some lives [10-11] Boswell: The London journal [12] Diderot's dialogues [13-14] Diderot: Jacques the fatalist [15] Rousseau: Inequality and social contract [16-17] Rousseau: The Confessions [18] Rousseau: Reveries of the solitary walker [19] Franklin: Autobiography [20] Franklin and Adam Smith [21-22] Laclos: Les Liaisons Dangereuses [23] Blake: Songs of innocence and of experience [24] Blake: The Marriage of heaven and hell

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