HONR-2520 : Modern Self and Global Society

Honors Program | College of Arts and Sciences | UG

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  5. Courses
  • LSAP Goal 2 Response to the Cry of the Poor
  • LSAP Goal 3 Ecological Economics
  • LSAP Goal 6 Ecological Spirituality
  • LSAP Goal 7 Community Resilience and Empowerment
  • 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
  • 16 Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions

About this Course

This course investigates a 20th /21st -century response to the Enlightenment ideas of freedom and rational autonomy. This response focuses on the rise of a class of questions that relate to ideas of the self, identity and community within society and society's institutions. Particular attention is paid to the effects of modernization and globalization. Authors covered include such thinkers as Dewey, Du Bois, Freud, Levinas, Mead, Foucault, Nussbaum and Rawls.