Status
Available
Call number
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