HONR-2510 : Capitalism and Its Discontents

Honors Program | College of Arts and Sciences | UG

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About this Course

This course investigates the major social science themes and perspectives of modernity associated with the Enlightenment tradition-positivism, rationality, economic and political liberalism-through a study of those who celebrated the virtues of this tradition and those who mourned its vices. The study ranges from the mid-17th century to the 20th . Authors covered include such thinkers as Locke, Rousseau, Smith, Mill, Marx, Weber and Gilman.