The conflicts of reason and passion, the nature of violence and love, and radical reevaluations of good and evil are central themes taken up as CC 202 moves from the Enlightenment through the Romantic Revolt to the Modern World. We read Kant, Rousseau, Jane Austen, the Romantic poets, and Nietzsche, listen to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, and view tensions between order and chaos in the art of Goya. We also consider how the first generations of U.S. authors cultivated and critiqued the idea of America and claimed a place for their new nation in the modern world, through a study of Thoreau, Dickinson and Whitman, Du Bois, and T. S. Eliot. CC 202 concludes open-endedly with twentieth-century Modernism and its newly fragmented view of reality.