Learning Objectives, or what you'll learn in this course
1. Key episodes in major European traditions and debates about nine ideas: the market economy and commercial society ("capitalism"); community; liberty; socialism; the decline of religion and moral crisis; the rationalization of society; feminism; disciplinary power; and multiculturalism.
2. The ways of thinking, reading, and analysis characteristic of intellectual history: close reading of texts combined with seeing them in multiple contexts
3. Skills in close reading, analysis, and analytical writing.