HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Marcel Proust, Sigmund Freud, Utopian Socialism
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Enlightenment mode - began with world w/ galilee, descartes. Reason for powerful belif in progress, acceptance of gifts made abialbe by 19th c. culture. Law of acceleration = humans were most civilized than they ever had been because they lived in rational, structured universe. Those who rejected conventional middle-class rationalism -- prgress was bad. All the problems of the world won"t go away just because we have science and technology. Belief that there"s a challenge - driven by issues - terrible experiences that made them question progress. Won"t accept rationalism french felt this way - esp because of franco-prussian war, paris commune --> question maybe they aren;t rational at all. 2nd empire napoleon iii - frenchmen felt betrayed by rationalism. Anti-rationslist = les d racin s (the uprooted -- uprooted from world and culture that had raised them and are cut off because they feel reason is a feaud.
