The Revolt in Ideas: Marx, Darwin, Nietzsche, Freud

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The Revolt in Ideas Marx, Darwin, Nietzsche,
Freud

• HST 112
• Lecture 11
• Ethan Pollock

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The Revolt in New Ideas

• I. Marx, Marxism and the Critique of Capital
• II. Darwin, Darwinism and the Descent of Man
• III. Freud and the Science of Human Disorders
• IV. Nietzsche -- Beyond Good and Evil
• V. Themes in The Heart of Darkness

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Karl Marx (1818-1883)
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I. Marx, Marxism and the Critique of Capital

• A. German Romanticism, British Economic Theory,
  French Socialism
• B. Das Kapital (vol. 1, 1867)
• C. Marxism Lenin and Imperialism as the highest
  stage of Capitalism

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Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
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II. Darwin, Social Darwinism, and the Descent of
Man

• A. Voyage on the Beagle (1831-1836)
• B. Evolution by natural selection
• C. The Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent
  of Man (1871)
• D. Social Darwinism and its Implications

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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
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III. Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil

• A. His Life and Troubles
• B. Appolonian vs. Dionysian
• C. The will to power and the Ubermensch

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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
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IV. Freud and the Science of Human Disorders

• A. The Unconscious and the irrational
• B. Psychoanalysis as Therapy
• C. Implications for Civilization

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V. Themes in Heart of Darkness