European thought and culture in the 20th century
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chantilly, Va. :
Teaching Co.,
©2002
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| Series: | (Great courses Teaching that engages the mind)
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Lecture 1: Origins of 20th-century European thought
- Lecture 2: Universities, cities & the modern 'culture industry'
- Lecture 3: Naturalism in fin-de-siècle literature
- Lecture 4: The New avant-garde literary culture
- Lecture 5: Rethinking the scientific tradition
- Lecture 6: The Emergence of modern art
- Lecture 7: Émile Durkheim & French social thought
- Lecture 8: Max Weber & the new German sociology
- Lecture 9: The Great war and cultural pessimism
- Lecture 10: Sigmund Freud & the psychoanalytic theory
- Lecture 11: Freud, Jung & the constraints of civilized life
- Lecture 12: Poetry & surrealism after the great war.
- Part 2. Lecture 13: Modern novel, Joyce & Wolfe
- Lecture 14: Continental novel, Proust, Kafka, Mann
- Lecture 15: Language and reality in modern philosophy
- Lecture 16: Revisiting Marxism & liberalism
- Lecture 17: Responses to Nazism & the Holocaust
- Lecture 18: Existential philosophy
- Lecture 19: Literature & memory in postwar culture
- Lecture 20: Redefining modern feminism
- Lecture 21: History, anthropology & structuralism
- Lecture 22: Postculturalist thought, Foucault & Derrida
- Lecture 23: European postmodernism
- Lecture 24: Changes & traditions at century's end.