In this fourth semester of Core humanities, we explore works of philosophy, literature and art that address how we can critique Enlightenment and Romantic ideals of subjectivity, reason, and expression. Works by Voltaire, Kant, Austen, the English Romantic Poets, Goethe, Whitman and Dickinson, and Beethoven are included. We cross the threshold of the twentieth century with Chekhov's invention of modern theater, the radical perspective of Nietzsche, a philosophical critique of inequality by W.E.B. Du Bois, and Virginia Woolf's Modernist response to World War I. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Ethical Reasoning, Writing- Intensive Course.