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The Modern and the Postmodern (Part 1)

This course examines how the idea of "the modern" develops at the end of the 18th century in European philosophy and literature, and how being modern (or pro...

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Michael S. Roth

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Description

This course examines how the idea of “the modern” develops at the end of the 18th century in European philosophy and literature, and how being modern (or progressive, or hip) became one of the crucial criteria for understanding and evaluating cultural change. Are we still in modernity, or have we moved beyond the modern to the postmodern?

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Who is the instructor? Is Michael S. Roth a SCAM or a TRUSTED instructor?

Michael S. Roth has created 3 courses that got 101 reviews which are generally positive. Michael S. Roth has taught 144103 students and received a 4.89 average review out of 101 reviews. Depending on the information available, Michael S. Roth is a TRUSTED instructor.

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Michael S. Roth

Wesleyan University

Michael S. Roth is president and University Professor at Wesleyan University.

Author and curator (most notably of the exhibition “Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture,” which opened at the Library of Congress in 1998), Roth describes his scholarly interests as centered on “how people make sense of the past.” His fifth book,
Memory,
Trauma and History: Essays on Living with the Past was published in 2011 by Columbia University Press, and he is currently preparing his next book, Why Liberal Education Matters for Yale University Press. He continues to publish essays, book reviews, and commentaries in a wide variety of venues, including national newspapers, scholarly journals, and the Huffington Post. He also blogs at:
http://roth.blogs.wesleyan.edu/

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