TTC Video - The Enlightenment Invention of the Modern Self
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Genre: History, Philosophy, Cultures
You are a product of the Enlightenment. In fact, the philosophy behind so much that has created the modern concept of Self?politics, economics, psychology, science and technology, education, art?was invented as recently as the Enlightenment of the 18th century. In The Enlightenment Invention of the Modern Self, literary scholar Leo Damrosch of Harvard University considers the time when ideas about the self were first considered. Through the eyes of the Enlightenment's greatest writers, you follow the origin of new ways of thinking?ideas we today take for granted but are startlingly recent?about the individual and society.
You see how these notions emerged in an era of transition from a world dominated by classical thought, institutional religion, and the aristocracy to one that was increasingly secular, scientific, skeptical, and middle class. The 18th century was a crucible for new questions that, among other things:
Reversed religious notions that human nature and the material world were infected by sin; instead they became beneficial
Provided a new rationale for the way we obtain and use knowledge
Coined or redefined words?such as humor, sentiment, and sensibility?to reflect new attitudes about feelings and personality
Disputed the classical dictum that art should "hold a mirror up to nature" and serve a moral purpose
Laid the groundwork for theories of the unconscious
Nurtured the development of the novel, with new ways of understanding psychological and social experience
Invented the autobiography
Raised pre-Darwinian ideas about evolution
Suggested that men and women should be treated as equals.
Understand the Enlightenment through its Great Books
These lectures are essentially about ideas and about books?how great ideas are alive and powerful in the pages of significant written works. The guiding premise is that the best way to appreciate the thinking of a given period is to explore its literature. You note or discuss at length a range of novels, autobiographies, and biographies from the 1670s to the 1790s, including The Pilgrim's Progress, Candide, The London Journal, The Social Contract, Confessions, and Songs of Innocence and of Experience. If you haven't already done so, this is your opportunity to familiarize yourself with this remarkable collection of works. Professor Damrosch is the perfect teacher to lead you on this literary tour. He served a five-year term as chairman of Harvard's Department of English, and in 2001 was named a Harvard College Professor in recognition of distinguished teaching. His books that explore Enlightenment themes include Samuel Johnson and the Tragic Sense, Symbol and Truth in Blake's Myth, The Imaginative World of Alexander Pope, and Fictions of Reality in the Age of Hume and Johnson.
Course Lecture Titles:
1. Changing Ideas of the Self
2. 17th-Century Religious Versions of the Self
3. 17th-Century Secular Versions of the Self
4. Lafayette, La Princesse de Cleves, I
5. La Princesse de Cleves, II
6. British Empiricism and the Self, I
7. British Empiricism and the Self, II
8. Voltaire, Candide
9. Voltaire, Johnson, Gibbon-Some Lives
10. Boswell, The London Journal, I
11. The London Journal, II
12. Diderot's Dialogues
13. Diderot, Jacques the Fatalist, I
14. Jacques the Fatalist, II
15. Rousseau, Inequality and Social Contract
16. Rousseau, The Confessions, I
17. The Confessions, II
18. Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
19. Franklin, Autobiography
20. Franklin and Adam Smith
21. Laclos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, I
22. Les Liaisons Dangereuses, II
23. Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
24. Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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