The Disenchanted World: Hobbes, Rochester, Swift. (U02765)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : LLC-3-U02765

This course will seek to explore an important tendency in late seventeenth and early eighteenth century Anglophone literary culture through the examination of selected writings by three canonical figures: Hobbes, Rochester and Swift. The course will explore the distinctive features of each approach, and allow for comparison between them. It will also set this exploration in the broader context of historical and conceptual accounts of enlightenment and 'disenchantment'.

Entry Requirements

? Costs : Essential Course texts

Subject Areas

Home subject area

English Literature, (School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, Schedule G)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 3rd year

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

? Other Required Attendance : 1 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Thursday	14:00	15:50	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

-critically assess the account of 'disenchantment' offered by Max Weber, its place in broader narratives of the development of modernity, and its usefulness for the study of the writings of the set authors
-give an account of the basis of Hobbesian method, first philosophy, and 'civil science'
-explore the consequences, implications and complications of Hobbes' writing
-critically compare the development of Hobbesian themes in the work of Rochester and Swift.