This course is a survey of modern European intellectual history from the French Revolution to the present. Readings include: Fourier, "Selections"; Nietzsche, "Beyond Good and Evil, the Genealogy of Morals"; Ortega y Gasset, "The Revolt of the Masses"; Levi-Strauss, "Tristes Tropiques: The Savage Mind"; Barthes, "Sade Fourier, Loyola"; Freud, "Beyond the Pleasure Principle".