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...names--from Bernbaum Professor of Literature Leo Damrosch to Professor of History William E. Gienapp--choose the classroom over summer-time research...
...Damrosch did the same thing with his course Literature and Arts A-72: "The Enlightenment Invention of the Modern Self," which was offered last year in summer school and this past fall for the first time in the College...
...coursework turns from the early-modern to the modern when Damrosch discusses the work of philosopher Charles Taylor, who writes about "the senses of inwardness, freedom, individuality and being embedded in nature which are at home in the modern West...
...Damrosch says he will present the idea that the "self" is conditioned as a product of society, so true freedom of action isn't much of a reality...
Sounds a bit trendy. But Damrosch says he'll make sure the class sticks to its traditional English roots...