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The Enlightenment invention of the modern self, [by Leo Damrosch]

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The Enlightenment invention of the modern self

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[by Leo Damrosch]

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Professor Leo Damrosch of Harvard University presents this course which introduces the major thinkers of the Enlightenment and their works. The discussion centers on the concept of self and how it changed during this time

lecture 1. Changing ideas of the self -- lecture 2. 17th century religious versions of the self -- lecture 3. 17th century secular versions of the self -- lecture 4. Lafayette, La Princesse de Clèves, I -- lecture 5. La Princesse de Clèves, II -- lecture 6. British Empiricism and the self, I -- lecture 7. British Empiricism and the self, II -- lecture 8. Voltaire: Candide -- lecture 9. Voltaire, Johnson, Gibbon: Some lives -- lecture 10. Boswell: The London journal, I -- lecture 11. The London journal, II -- lecture 12. Diderot's dialogueslecture 13. Diderot: Jacques the fatalist, I -- lecture 14. Jacques the fatalist, II -- lecture 15. Rousseau: Inequality and social contract -- lecture 16. Rousseau: The Confessions, I -- lecture 17. The Confessions, II -- lecture 18. Rousseau: Reveries of the solitary walker -- lecture 19. Franklin: Autobiography -- lecture 20. Franklin and Adam Smith -- lecture 21. Laclos: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, I -- lecture 22. Les Liaisons dangereuses, II -- lecture 23. Blake: Songs of innocence and of experience -- lecture 24. Blake: The Marriage of heaven and hell

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