The enlightenment and its critics
Contributors: Staloff, Darren, 1961-; Kors, Alan Charles; Dalton, Dennis; Teaching Company
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Great minds of the Western intellectual tradition -- pt. 3; SuperStar teachers; HIS 234 (NU course)
Publisher: Teaching Company
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Springfield, VA
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording]
Number of pages: 540
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Naturalism; History; Materialism; Philosophy; Modern Philosophy; Enlightenment; Western Civilization
Description: This program presents lectures by Michael Sugrue and Darren Staloff based on their seminar course at Columbia University on Western intellectual history, as well as lectures by Alan Charles Kors and Dennis G. Dalton.  The lectures in Part III cover the great British and French Enlightenment periods of the 17th and 18th centuries, a period of widespread religious disbelief, expanded faith in science and of early responses to the industrial revolution.  This period marks the intellectual flowering that led to the American Revolution.
Notes: Titles of lectures taken from the booklet.

Date on cassette labels and guide, c1997. Date in end credits, c1994.

Lecturers: Michael Sugrue, Darren M. Staloff, Alan Charles Kors, Dennis G. Dalton.

VHS.
Table of contents: title: Lecture 1. Locke's epistemology / A.C. Kors; title: lecture 2. Locke's political theory / D. Dalton; title: lecture 3. Montesquieu and the beginnings of political science / M. Sugrue; title: lecture 4. Berkeley's idealism and the critique of materialism / D. Staloff; title: lecture 5. Hume's epistemology / D. Staloff; title: lecture 6. Hume's theory of morality / D. Staloff; title: lecture 7. Smith's Wealth of nations / M. Sugrue; title: lecture 8. Rousseau's dissent: the challenge to the idea of progress / A.C. Kors; title: lecture 9. Kant's "Copernican Revolution": epistemology and the critique of metaphysics / D. Staloff; title: lecture 10. Kant's moral philosophy / M. Sugrue; title: lecture 11. Burke and the birth of enlightened conservatism / M. Sugrue; title: lecture 12. Naturalism and materialism: the boundaries of the Enlightenment / A.C. Kors.