CLL 172 - (LT) European Literature of the 17th and 18th Centuries

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In the eighteenth century, the intellectual movement known as the Enlightenment swept through Europe. Challenging traditional authority, it sought the secular enlargement of human understanding and the progress of society. This course offers a concise history of the Enlightenment and its key ideas. It examines the many ways in which Enlightenment thinkers and writers consciously sought to further the goal of human betterment by promoting a better understanding of religion, polite manners, economic improvement, and the subordination of government to public opinion. It studies a broad range of sources—including works by Kant, Pope, Burke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Newton, Locke, Voltaire, and Goethe—that demonstrate the pervasive impact of Enlightenment views on literature, philosophy, as well as on political and social institutions.

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CLL 172 - (LT) European Literature of the 17th and 18th Centuries