Class 9: Freudian Psychoanalysis
“The first of these displeasing propositions of psycho-analysis is this: that mental processes are essentially unconscious, and that those which are conscious are merely isolated acts and parts of the...
7 Feb 202451min
Class 8: Leninism, the Rushing of History
“We have said that there could not have been Social-Democratic consciousness among the workers. It would have to be brought to them from without.”—V. I. Lenin, What Is To Be Done? HIST 271/HUMS 339: E...
7 Feb 202451min
Class 7: Henri Bergson – Revolt Against Positivism
“All the molds crack.”— Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution. HIST 271/HUMS 339: European Intellectual History since Nietzsche is a survey course designed to introduce students to the dominant trends in ...
7 Feb 202450min
Class 6: Nietzsche and the Death of God
“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we, the murderers of all murderers, comfort ourselves?”—Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science. HIST 271/HUMS 339: European Intellectual...
7 Feb 202450min
Class 5: Marxism
“A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of communism.”—Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto. HIST 271/HUMS 339: European Intellectual History since Nietzsche is a survey course de...
7 Feb 202450min
Class 4: Hegel and the Historicist Chronotope
“The truth is the whole.” –G. W. F. Hegel, Phenomenology of the Spirit. HIST 271/HUMS 339: European Intellectual History since Nietzsche is a survey course designed to introduce students to the domina...
7 Feb 202448min
Class 3: The Legacy of Romanticism
“You see, gentlemen, reason is unquestionably a fine thing, but reason is no more than reason, and it gives fulfillment only to man’s reasoning capacity, while desires are a manifestation of the whole...
7 Feb 202448min
Class 2: The Heritage of the Enlightenment
“Our Western heritage is reason—reason, analysis, action, progress!” –Settembrini the organ-grinder in Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain. HIST 271/HUMS 339: European Intellectual History since Nietzsch...
7 Feb 202447min
