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21H.433 The Age of Reason: Europe in the 18th and 19th Centuries, Spring 2002

Image by Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes, entitled The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.

Image by Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, 1797-1798. (Photo by Rick Stafford, courtesy of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Gift of Philip Hofer, © President and Fellows of Harvard College, Licensed to MIT by Harvard University Art Museums through 12/31/2008.)

Highlights of this Course

This course has been translated by Universia and is available en Español and em Portugues.

This course features links to the Galileo Project, a hypertext source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), and other resources, such as Encyclopaedie, a reference for the arts and sciences.

Course Description

A study of the evolution of European society from the end of the seventeenth century to the outbreak of World War I. Its politics, the nature of its social system, the workings of its economy, and its intellectual accomplishments. Particular attention given to the analyses made by critics and thinkers contemporary to the matters treated in the subject.

Staff

Instructor:
Prof. Jeffrey S. Ravel

Course Meeting Times

Lectures:
Two sessions / week
1.5 hours / session

Level

Undergraduate

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