9 questions · 25 lectures · 16 thinkers
Reading pages
The map, written out. Each page takes one question, one lecture or one thinker from Marci Shore's Yale lectures European Intellectual History since Nietzsche and sets the claims down in order, with who builds on whom and who breaks away.
By question
Nine questions the lectures keep returning to, each followed from its first appearance to where it is left.
30 claims
What replaces God?Descartes, Voltaire, Mendelssohn, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche and others
21 claims
Is history going anywhere?Berlin, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Bergson, Lenin and others
16 claims
Alienation: where is the split, and who can heal it?Rousseau, Herder, Hegel, Marx, Kafka, Heidegger and others
17 claims
The problem of the bridge: how does the mind reach the world?Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Husserl, Heidegger and others
14 claims
Is the self transparent to itself?Descartes, Freud, Kafka, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre and others
13 claims
If history is inevitable, why act?Lenin, Luxemburg, Lukács, Beauvoir, Kołakowski, Kosík and others
18 claims
The seduction of wholenessBerlin, Dostoevsky, Hegel, Arendt, Nietzsche, Lukács and others
17 claims
Recognition and the Other: can I become myself without you?Hegel, Husserl, Stein, Kojève, Sartre, Beauvoir and others
18 claims
Is and ought: can what happens tell us what we should do?Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Sartre, Horkheimer and others
By lecture
All 25 lectures, each claim in the order Shore makes it.
Lecture 1
Introduction to the Course24 claims · Kant, Brzozowski
Lecture 2
The Heritage of the Enlightenment24 claims · Kant, Descartes, Voltaire, Hobbes and others
Lecture 3
The Legacy of Romanticism20 claims · Rousseau, Kant, Fichte, Herder and others
Lecture 4
Hegel and the Historicist Chronotope32 claims · Hegel, Berlin, Davis, Bernstein and others
Lecture 5
Marxism24 claims · Marx, Hegel, Berlin, Engels and others
Lecture 6
Nietzsche and the Death of God29 claims · Nietzsche, Wagner, Freud, Russell
Lecture 7
Henri Bergson and the Revolt against Positivism29 claims · Bergson, Spencer, Cantor, Arendt
Lecture 8
Leninism, the Rushing of History23 claims · Lenin, Luxemburg, Marx, Lukács and others
Lecture 9
Freudian Psychoanalysis32 claims · Freud, Robinson, Prokhasko, Arendt and others
Lecture 10
Modernism and the Avant-Garde32 claims · Kafka, Saussure, Shklovsky, Marinetti and others
Lecture 11
Phenomenology21 claims · Husserl, Levinas, Groys, Witkiewicz
Lecture 12
Heideggerean Existentialism23 claims · Heidegger
Lecture 13
French Existentialism29 claims · Sartre, Gombrowicz, Judt
Lecture 14
The Frankfurt School23 claims · Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, Reich and others
Lecture 15
Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism and the Nature of Evil29 claims · Arendt
Lecture 16
The Second Sex35 claims · Beauvoir, Kojève
Lecture 17
Husserl's Children, Searching for the Other31 claims · Stein, Husserl, Levinas, Sartre and others
Lecture 18
Revisionist Marxism and Existentialism23 claims · Kosík, Kołakowski, Sartre, Lukács and others
Lecture 19
Structuralism and Anthropology30 claims · Lévi-Strauss, Saussure, Freud, Geertz and others
Lecture 20
Violence and the Sacred - René Girard29 claims · Girard, Lévi-Strauss, Eagleton, Hamerton-Kelly
Lecture 21
Power and Archaeology - Michel Foucault34 claims · Foucault, Kotkin
Lecture 22
French Post-Structuralism: Derrida and Deconstruction31 claims · Derrida, Lévi-Strauss, de Man, Lyotard and others
Lecture 23
Antipolitics and the Philosophy of Dissent24 claims · Havel, Kołakowski, Patočka, Dostoevsky and others
Lecture 24
The Heidegger Controversy34 claims · Heidegger, Jaspers, Marcuse, Derrida and others
Lecture 25
From Modernity to Post-Modernity28 claims · Derrida, Arendt, Bauman, Foucault and others
Side by side
Pairs of thinkers with four or more links between them.
10 links
6 links
4 links
4 links
By thinker
In order of birth. What each one argues in the lectures, and who answers them.
1724–1804
Immanuel Kant9 claims · 15 links to other thinkers · Enlightenment and positivism
1770–1831
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel27 claims · 45 links to other thinkers · Romanticism and Idealism
1818–1883
Karl Marx17 claims · 34 links to other thinkers · Marxism and its revisions
1844–1900
Friedrich Nietzsche20 claims · 16 links to other thinkers · Nietzsche, Bergson, Freud
1856–1939
Sigmund Freud23 claims · 23 links to other thinkers · Nietzsche, Bergson, Freud
1859–1938
Edmund Husserl19 claims · 24 links to other thinkers · Phenomenology and existentialism
1859–1941
Henri Bergson17 claims · 9 links to other thinkers · Nietzsche, Bergson, Freud
1889–1976
Martin Heidegger31 claims · 35 links to other thinkers · Phenomenology and existentialism
1905–1980
Jean-Paul Sartre26 claims · 22 links to other thinkers · Phenomenology and existentialism
1906–1975
Hannah Arendt33 claims · 13 links to other thinkers · Totalitarianism and dissent
1908–1986
Simone de Beauvoir24 claims · 15 links to other thinkers · Phenomenology and existentialism
1908–2009
Claude Lévi-Strauss13 claims · 10 links to other thinkers · Structuralism and after
1923–2015
René Girard21 claims · 8 links to other thinkers · Structuralism and after
1926–1984
Michel Foucault26 claims · 17 links to other thinkers · Structuralism and after
1930–2004
Jacques Derrida25 claims · 19 links to other thinkers · Structuralism and after
1936–2011
Václav Havel10 claims · 7 links to other thinkers · Totalitarianism and dissent
Terms
272 terms
GlossaryEvery term the lectures lean on, with a one-line definition.