Examines the interplay of politics, culture, psychology and sociology to try to understand why the great philosopher Isaiah Berlin called the 20th century, "The most terrible century in Western history." Our focus will be on the Holocaust as the event that defined the concept of genocide, but we will locate this event that has come to define the 20th century within ideas such as racism, imperialism, violence, and most important, the dehumanization of individuals in the modern world. Same as JWST 1830 and RLST 1830.
instructor(s)
Pegelow Kaplan, Thomas
Primary Instructor
- Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024
