Page 2 - spring21

SESSIONS AND DATES:

1 Optimism and Progress:
5 Jan Introduction: Finish Victorians; Rousseau and the Inner Life
19 Jan Vienna 1815: Metternich and Mazzini
2 Feb Visionaries: Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace

2 Freedom and Equality:
16 Feb Socialist awakening: Owen, Proudhon, Bakunin, Marx

2 March Liberal statesmen: Lincoln and Cavour

3 Revolution and Reform:
16 March Freedom and the nation: Americans and Italians
30 March A Question of Style: Movements in Western European Art in the 19th
century, prepared by Cathy Knight

4 Reason & Science:
27 April The heart has its reasons: Comte and reason, Eliot and emotion
11 May Science of genius: Darwin, Spencer, Galton; social Darwinism, eugenics

5 War and peace:
25 May The brotherhood of man: Clausewitz, Tolstoy
8 June Cry havoc: the First World War and General Hague; Paradise Regained? -
summing up