SkillCircles

The Modern and the Postmodern

A course by Michael S. Roth

The Modern and the Postmodern Part I” covers the first half of a full semester course on European history, literature and philosophy. We begin with Immanuel Kant and Jean Jacques Rousseau and conclude with Friedrich Nietzsche and Charles Baudelaire and a very quick look at painting at the time they wrote. Although in the final week themes of postmodernism begin to emerge, a discussion of how modernism becomes postmodernism is at the heart of Part II of this course.

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This Course

Starts on November 1

The SkillCircles Experience

Form Your Own Circle

Choose your peers to create your ideal learning group.

Dive Into Course Materials

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Weekly meeting with your peers

Meet up with your peers to unpack the week's contents together.

Course Contents

• Week 0: Welcome!

This first meeting is a chance to meet your peers and get to know each other. Spend some time with your Circle and familiarize yourself with the Circles app. Then, check out the course and plan your learning journey together!

• Week 1: Philosophy, Modernity and Intellectual History

Why is philosophy relevant to modernity? Through reading Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant, we examine philosophy as a reflection on modernity and progress.

• Week 2: What is Enlightenment?

Using Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, we study how the pursuit of knowledge is related to the politics of inequality.