HUM 224 20th Century World Views
Surveys contemporary world views, including some that profoundly shaped the world in the 20th Century, and now define the 21st Century. Includes such modes of thought as idealism phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics Marxism, critical theory, psychoanalysis structuralism, post-structuralism deconstruction postmodernism, and feminism. Thematically, our interdisciplinary concern will be with such issues as the rise of Humanism and the reaction against it, the flirtation with Marxism, the rise of the women's movement, the loss of colonial empires etc. May be repeated as the topic varies and may be designated by the instructor as one, two, or three units.
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