123-Nineteenth and twentieth century thought
The final seminar is the capstone of the Collegiate Seminar Program and focuses on the great writers and thinkers of the last 2 centuries.
Prerequisite: Seminar 122 - Renaissance, Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Thought
Reading List:
- Whitman, selection from Leaves of Grass
- Marx, Wage-Labour and Capital
- Newman, "The Uses of Knowledge": selection from The Idea of a University
- Darwin, The Origin of Species
- Thoreau, Walking
- Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals
- Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
- Shaw, Pygmalion
- Kafka, Metamorphosis
