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HNRS 2392 – Revolution & the New Empires
Professors Teamed:
Dr. Terry Hall & Dr. Linda Pett-Conklin
 
This course examines the ideals of Revolutionary, Philosopher, Diplomat, Bluestocking, Pioneer/ Entrepreneur, Gentleman, Social Scientist, Existential Hero and Worker.
The reading list can include, but is not limited to: Descartes’s Discourse on Method and Meditations; Newton’s Principles of Natural Philosophy Mathematically Demonstrated; Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s On the Social Contract and Emile; Immanuel Kant’s Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose; Thomas Paine’s Common Sense; Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography; Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations; Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America; Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; Marx & Engels’s Communist Manifesto; Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species; Henry David Thoreau’s Walden; John Henry Newman’s Idea of a University; Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum; St. Therese’s Story of a Soul; John Stuart Mill’s On the Subjection of Women... |
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