Revolution
Honours Special: Enlightenment and Revolution
Do ideas matter? In this course, we will examine an age in which philosophical ideas were not hidden from view behind the walls of the Academy, but played an essential part in reform and revolution.…
Revolutions
This course seeks to provide a framework for understanding revolutions historically and comparatively. We will spend much of our time on the French Revolution before turning to the Russian Revolution. We will read a great…
The Pursuit of Happiness
This course will study the cultural and intellectual history of the pursuit of happiness, focusing on 19th and early 20th century Europe. It will examine the intellectual underpinnings of the pursuit of happiness in late…
