GE332:The Self & the Others: Identity Gender & Ethnicity in German Culture around 1800
You will examine the way in which the modern notions of identity we have today, be they gendered or ethnic identities, were forged in the past by intellectual, social, scientific and aesthetic processes and movements ranging from the Enlightenment, through Romanticism and beyond. Moved by the concept of reason, the Enlightenment envisioned ongoing social and cultural progress for all of humanity. Yet feminist, postcolonial and orientalist theories of culture have shown how the criteria for pr...
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