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Sophomore Seminar: Enlightenment Concept of the Self HIST 153 Fall 2009 not offered This course explores several Enlightenment thinkers who grappled to understand the paradoxes of the self at a time when traditional religious and metaphysical systems were disintegrating. Essential Capabilities: None Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS HIST Course Format: Discussion Grading Mode: Graded Level: UGRD Prerequisites: None Fulfills a Requirement for: None Major Readings: Diderot, RAMEAU'S NEPHEW, JACQUES THE FATALIST Hume, TREATISE ON HUMAN NATURE Rosseau, FIRST AND SECOND DISCOURSES, CONVESSIONS, ADVENTURES OF A SOILTARY WALKER, REVERIES OF THE SOLITARY WALKER, EMILE Kant, WHAT IS ENLIGHTMENT? Godwin, CALEB WILLIAMS Wollstoncraft, VINDICATIONS OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN Voltaire, CANDIDE Laclos, LES LIASONS DANGEREUSES Sterne, SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY Shelly, FRANKSTEING Examinations and Assignments: Three five-page papers based on readings. Topics for a final paper will be selected by the students.

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