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Odyssey of the West, a classic education through the great books : enlightenment, revolution, and renewal, Timothy B. Shutt, series editor, V

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Odyssey of the West, a classic education through the great books : enlightenment, revolution, and renewal, Timothy B. Shutt, series editor, V
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eng
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Course guide Includes bibliographical references
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historylectures speeches
Main title
Odyssey of the West
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259750111
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Timothy B. Shutt, series editor
Series statement
The modern scholar
Sub title
a classic education through the great books : enlightenment, revolution, and renewal
Summary
The Odyssey of the West series addresses in chronological sequence the works that have shaped the ongoing development of Western thought both in its own right and in cultural dialogue with other traditions. Part five weaves together the varied and interrelated strands of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century discourse and events, focusing on the contributions to Western history that bear the most responsibility for shaping the world of today
Table Of Contents
Lecture 1. Louis XIV -- Lecture 2. Voltaire -- Lecture 3. David Hume -- Lecture 4. Immanuel Kant -- Lecture 5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Lecture 6. Adam Smith -- Lecture 7. The Federalist Papers -- Lecture 8. The French Revolution and empire -- Lecture 9. Romanticism and romantic art -- Lecture 10. Romanticism and literature -- Lecture 11. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -- Lecture 12. Karl Marx -- Lecture 13. Darwin and the theory of evolution -- Lecture 14. The nineteenth-century novel
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Odyssey of the West 5Classic education through the great booksEnlightenment, revolution, and renewal
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