1. Opening Music, “Sympathy for the Devil,” from the album Beggar’s Banquet, By the Rolling Stones, 1968.

2. HUM 102 Final Lecture
Prof. Ruth M. McAdams
15 May 2017

3. Overview of Lecture 1. Modernity and Periodization 2. A Few Themes
3. Closing Remarks

4. Modernity and Periodization Part One. from Fifty Days at Iliam, 1978.
by Cy Twombly. Philadelphia Museum of Art
Modernity
and Periodization

10. “If a man or a people seize an immense territory and shut out the rest of the world, won’t this be merely a grab that ought to be punished? The answer is surely ‘yes’ When Balboa stood on the sea-shore and took possession of the south seas and the whole of South America in the name of the Spanish crown, was that enough to dispossess all their actual inhabitants and to shut out from those territories all the princes of the world?”

11. “If a man or a people seize an immense territory and shut out the rest of the world, won’t this be merely a grab that ought to be punished? The answer is surely ‘yes’ When Balboa stood on the sea-shore and took possession of the south seas and the whole of South America in the name of the Spanish crown, was that enough to dispossess all their actual inhabitants and to shut out from those territories all the princes of the world?”
Rousseau, P167.

13. Part Two. Common Themes.
Humanism, Identity, and the Body

14. Kara Walker, Sugar Sphinx

17. City Life

18. from “To a Passer-By” A lightning flash... then night! Fleeting beauty
By whose glance I was suddenly reborn,
Will I see you no more before eternity?
P227

19. City Life
hüzün

20. History

21. Darwin and Social Darwinism

22. Darwin and Social Darwinism

23. Part Three. Closing Thoughts

24. The Dialogic Nature of Learning and Knowledge