From the Age of Reason through the Romantic Revolt to the Modern World. We examine questions of social hierarchy and what it means to know, as well as subjectivity and its relation to reason through Kant, Rousseau, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, the Romantic poets, Thoreau and Emily Dickinson, and the art of Goya and the music of Beethoven. We look at the radical perspectivism of Nietzsche, return to 20th century America with DuBois' The Souls of Black Folk and end with Virginia Woolf's Modernist response to WWI in Mrs. Dalloway. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.