HONR-2520 : Modern Self and Global Society
Honors Program | College of Arts and Sciences | UG
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About this Course
This course investigates a 20th /21st -century response to the Enlightenment ideas of freedom and rational autonomy. This response focuses on the rise of a class of questions that relate to ideas of the self, identity and community within society and society's institutions. Particular attention is paid to the effects of modernization and globalization. Authors covered include such thinkers as Dewey, Du Bois, Freud, Levinas, Mead, Foucault, Nussbaum and Rawls.