What is intellectual history? -- Scientific origins of the enlightenment -- Eemergence of the modern intellectual -- Cultural meaning of the French Revolution -- New conservatism in post-revolutionary Europe -- New German philosophy -- Hegel's philosophical conception of history -- New liberalism -- Literary culture of Romanticism -- Meaning of the "romantic hero" -- Industrial Revolution and classical economics -- Early critiques of industrial capitalism.
Hegelianism and the young Marx -- Marx's social critique -- Feminism in 19th-century culture -- Women's rights in a man's world -- Tocqueville & Mill, rethinking liberal theory -- Nationalisms and national identities -- The novel as art and social criticism -- Science and its literary critics -- Charles Darwin and the new biology -- Controversies of social Darwinism -- Heroic critic in mass society -- Nietzsche's critique of European culture.
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