European Intellectual History Since Nietzsche: A Free Online Course from Yale

Taught by his­to­ri­an Mar­ci Shore, “Euro­pean Intel­lec­tu­al His­to­ry Since Niet­zsche” sur­veys the sto­ry of mod­ern thought, from the late 18th cen­tu­ry to the late 20th.

Along the way, the course explores major trends in mod­ern Euro­pean thought: Marx­ism-Lenin­ism, psy­cho­analy­sis, expres­sion­ism, struc­tural­ism, phe­nom­e­nol­o­gy, exis­ten­tial­ism, anti-pol­i­tics, and decon­struc­tion. Intel­lec­tu­al fig­ures cov­ered in the course include Niet­zsche, Lenin, Kaf­ka, Freud, Husserl, de Beau­voir, Hei­deg­ger, Arendt, Adorno, Sartre, Girard, Fou­cault, Der­ri­da, and Hav­el.

You can watch all 25 lec­tures above. Or find them on YouTube and Apple Pod­casts. Explore the course hand­outs here.

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