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Lecture Outlines for HIST 1122 in Microsoft PowerPoint Format

These are Acrobat PDF copies of the outlines used in my class lectures. You may use these freely. (You will need Acrobat Reader to open these from your own computer.) I reserve all rights to these as well as other written materials I have placed on this web site. (JOR, January 11, 2010)

I. Introduction

• Introduction to the Course and to the Study of History as a Study of Culture
II. The Enlightenment as the "Second Europe"
• The Enlightenment as the Second Europe, 1650-1789
• (Music in the Enlightenment, as part of the section on the Enlightenment)
• Rene Descartes and the Enlightenment Search for a New Method of Thinking
• Isaac Newton and the Mathematical Universe
• Man's Place in the Best of All Possible Worlds: Alexander Pope
• The Proper Basis for Society: John Locke
III. The Shaping of the Second Europe by Revolutions, 1750 - 1914
• The Impact of Revolutions and "-isms" on the Second Europe as a Theme
• 1776
• The French Revolution
• Conservatism
• Liberalism
• Nationalism
• Romanticism
• The Industrial and Technological Revolution
• Socialism
• Darwinism
• Optimism, Pessimism, and Realism -- Literary Responses to Industrialism and Science
• Nihilism (Anti-Rationalism) -- Friedrich Nietzsche
• Imperialism
IV. The Shaping of the "Second Europe," 1914 to the Present
• Revolt Against Europe as a Major Theme
• Communist Totalitarianism and the Revolt Against Europe
• Fascist Totalitarianism and the Revolt Against Europe
• Democracy and the Revolt Against Europe
• Nationalism and the Revolt Against Europe
• Sigmund Freud and the Revolt Against Europe
• Existentialism and the Revolt Against Europe
• Mass Man and the Revolt Against Europe
• 20th Century Literature and the Revolt Against Europe
• Theology and the Revolt Against Europe
V. Is There to Be a "Third Europe?"
• Is There To Be a "Third Europe?"

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