PHIL 243 Mind, Politics, and Society: 19th Century Philosophy

Discusses philosophy in the 19th century as it struggles with its disenchantment with modern optimism and raises new questions about political revolution, utopian visions of society, personal despair and human freedom, economic turmoil, control and wealth, and subjectivity and truth. Examines the views of thinkers such as Hegel, Schopenhauer, Marx, Kierkegaard, and, Nietzsche.