MODERNITY AND THE CRISES OF IDENTITY:
THE REORIENTATION OF THE WEST
Co-listed with CF 3336

HIST 3397-001C
TTh 11AM-12:20—115 Dallas Hall
John Mears—58D-Dallas Hall—214-768-2974

Drawing on the works of major painters, poets, musicians, dramatists, philosophers, and scientists, this course will explore crises of identity in Western culture during the decades prior to World War One, when many of the pervasive social problems of the twentieth century abruptly coalesced, and the creative few experimented with radically new modes of thought and taste.

Readings include: 1) Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov; 2) Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis; 3) Ibsen, Four Great Plays by Ibsen; 4) Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; 5) Nietzsche, Birth of Tragedy and Genealogy of Morals.