HIS 314 European Soc & Intell History

In this course students will critically analyze a range of influential ideas, ideologies, and epistemologies that defined socio-economic, political, and cultural modernity, situated in the historical conditions and contexts that produced and gave them meaning. Special consideration will be given the mutually constitutive relationship between social subjectivity and the production of knowledge by mapping its complex processes of association, circulation, appropriation, and contestation. Topics will include: classical liberalism and political economy, Enlightenment anthropology, ideologies of race, nation, and imperialism, conservatism, socialism, anarchism, feminism, fascism, and existentialism. Fulfills writing-intensive requirement. Prerequisite (any one of the following 200 level courses): HIS 211, HIS 213, HIS 212, HIS 214, HIS 217, HIS 219. 4 credits