9/4

Course Introduction

Discussion Questions

9/11

The End of the Enlightenment

Condorcet-Malthus

Discussion Questions & Presentations

9/18

Ideology & Materialism

Hegel-Marx

Discussion Questions & Presentations

9/25

Morality

Nietzsche-Spencer

Discussion Questions & Presentations

10/2

Capitalism & Culture

Weber-Spengler

Discussion Questions & Presentations

10/9

The Crisis of Marxism

Luxemborg-Benjamin

Discussion Questions & Presentations

10/16

No class

Independent reading

10/23

No class

Independent reading

10/30

Evolution

Huxley-Eiseley

Discussion Questions & Presentations

11/6

Fascism & Totalitarianism

Evola-Arendt

Discussion Questions & Presentations

11/13

Magic & Mind

Eliade-Freud

Discussion Questions & Presentations

11/20

Late Marxism

Marcuse-Wallerstein

Discussion Questions & Presentations

11/27

Modernity & Postmodernity

Foucault-Habermas

Discussion Questions & Presentations

12/4

Liberal Democracy

Fukuyama-Fisher

Discussion Questions & Presentations

12/11

Posthumanism

Bostrom-Hayles

Presentations

12/18

Final Presentations

Final Research Presentations & Discussion