HUM 370 : The Intellectual in History

This course examines the ambiguities of the intellectual's role as both a critic of society and an advocate for its highest values and assumptions. Students study the lives of notable Western and non-Western thinkers, public and official reaction to their ideas, and the relation in general between ideas and actions. Some of the thinkers studied include Socrates, Erasmus, Voltaire, Heine, Nietzsche, Kang-Youwei, Yoshida Shoin, and Franz Fanon.