Spring 2024 | MWF | 11:15AM – 12:05PM | Instructor Rachel Weiser

Spring 2024 – Rachel Weiser

Days Start End Type Bldg Room
MWF 11:15 AM 12:05 PM IND

How Europe became modern. The rise of science, critique of religion, and struggle for rights. The public sphere emerges: newspapers, Freemasons, coffee, salons, smut. The invention of a cosmopolitan republic of letters; Voltaire, Diderot, Kant, Adam Smith, Benjamin Franklin. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Philosophical Inquiry and Life’s Meanings.


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