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1{
2 "professor" : "Professor Arnold Weinstein, Ph.D.",
3 "title" : "20th-Century American Fiction",
4 "description" : "Hemingway. Fitzgerald. Faulkner. No first names are needed. These giants of literature are immediately recognizable to anyone who loves to read fiction and even to many who don't. Now, thanks to this course from Brown University's Professor Arnold Weinstein, you can develop fresh insight into these and eight other great American authors of the 20th century. Professor Weinstein sheds light not only on the sheer magnificence of these writers' literary achievements but explores their uniquely American character as well. Despite their remarkable variety, each represents an outlook and a body of work that could only have emerged in the United States.",
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6 "lectures" : [
7 "American Fiction and the Individualist Creed",
8 "The American Self—Ghost in Disguise",
9 "What Produces \"Nobody\"?",
10 "Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio—Writing as the Talking Cure",
11 "Winesburg—A New American Prose-Poetry",
12 "Hemingway—Journalist, Writer, Legend",
13 "Hemingway as Trauma Artist",
14 "Hemingway's Cunning Art",
15 "F. Scott Fitzgerald—Tender Is the Night—Fitzgerald's Second Act",
16 "Fitzgerald's Psychiatric Tale",
17 "Dick's Dying Fall—An American Story",
18 "Light in August—Midpoint of the Faulkner Career",
19 "Light in August—Determinism vs. Freedom",
20 "Light in August—Novel as Poem, or, Beyond Holocaust",
21 "Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God—Canon Explosion",
22 "Their Eyes Were Watching God—From Romance to Myth",
23 "Flannery O'Connor—Realist of Distances",
24 "O'Connor—Taking the Measure of the Region",
25 "William S. Burroughs—Bad Boy of American Literature",
26 "Naked Lunch—The Body in Culture",
27 "Naked Lunch—Power and Exchange in the Viral World",
28 "Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five—Apocalypse Now",
29 "Vonnegut's World—Tralfamadore or Trauma?",
30 "Robert Coover—Postmodern Fabulator",
31 "The Public Burning—Execution at Times Square",
32 "Robert Coover—Fiction as Fission",
33 "Toni Morrison's Sula—From Trauma to Freedom",
34 "Sula—New Black Woman",
35 "Don DeLillo—Decoder of American Frequencies",
36 "White Noise—Representing the Environment",
37 "DeLillo and American Dread",
38 "Conclusion—Nobody's Home"
39 ],
40 "id" : 230,
41 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/20th-century-american-fiction.html"
42}{
43 "professor" : "Professor Peter N. Stearns, Ph.D.",
44 "title" : "A Brief History of the World",
45 "description" : "Think of the construction of the great pyramids of Egypt, or the development of democratic rule in ancient Greece. Recall the innovations of the European Renaissance and Enlightenment—the remarkable flowering of drama and the arts, and revolutionary breakthroughs in science and philosophy. These are intriguing and important episodes, familiar to students of history. But haven't you also wondered: What else was going on in the world?",
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47 "lectures" : [
48 "What and Why Is World History?",
49 "The Neolithic Revolution",
50 "What Is a Civilization?",
51 "The Classical Period in World History",
52 "Cultural Change in the Classical Period",
53 "Social Inequalities in Classical Societies",
54 "The Roman Empire and Han China",
55 "The Silk Road; Classical Period Contacts",
56 "The Decline of the Classical Civilizations",
57 "The Post-Classical Period, 500–1450",
58 "World Religions and Their Consequences",
59 "The Impact of Islam",
60 "Postclassical Trade and Contacts",
61 "Postclassical Patterns of Imitation",
62 "Western Civilization in World Context",
63 "The Mongol Years",
64 "Civilizations in the Americas and in Africa",
65 "The World in 1450",
66 "The Early Modern Period, 1450–1750",
67 "The World Economy, 1450–1750",
68 "Transformations in Western Europe",
69 "The Rise of Russia",
70 "Asian Empires and a Shogunate",
71 "The Long 19th Century",
72 "Abolition of Slavery and Serfdom",
73 "Modernization and Nationalisms",
74 "Formation of Latin American Civilization",
75 "China and Japan—19th-Century Pressures",
76 "The 20th–21st Centuries as a New Period",
77 "The World Economy—Change and Continuity",
78 "An Age of Revolutions",
79 "The United States in World History",
80 "Contemporary Democracy",
81 "Contemporary Cultural Change",
82 "Gender in Contemporary World History",
83 "Globalization and World History"
84 ],
85 "id" : 8080,
86 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/a-brief-history-of-the-world.html"
87}{
88 "professor" : "Professor David Zarefsky, Ph.D.",
89 "title" : "Abraham Lincoln: In His Own Words",
90 "description" : "A century and a half after his death, the cadence, argument, and power of Abraham Lincoln's speeches still stir the heart of any American who encounters them.",
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92 "lectures" : [
93 "Lincoln and Rhetoric",
94 "The Lyceum Speech, 1838",
95 "The Temperance Speech, 1842",
96 "Lincoln as a Young Whig",
97 "Lincoln Returns to Politics",
98 "The Peoria Speech, 1854",
99 "Lincoln's Rhetoric and Politics, 1854-1857",
100 "The Springfield Speech, 1857",
101 "The \"House Divided\" Speech, 1858",
102 "The Chicago Speech, July 1858",
103 "The Springfield Speech, July 1858",
104 "The Debate about the Debates",
105 "The Lincoln-Douglas Debates I",
106 "The Lincoln-Douglas Debates II",
107 "The Lincoln-Douglas Debates III",
108 "The Aftermath of the Debates",
109 "Lincoln's 1859 Speeches",
110 "The Cooper Union Speech, 1860",
111 "The Campaign of 1860",
112 "The First Inaugural Address",
113 "Justifying the War",
114 "Moving Toward Emancipation",
115 "Lincoln at Gettysburg",
116 "Lincoln's Last Speeches"
117 ],
118 "id" : 877,
119 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/abraham-lincoln-in-his-own-words.html"
120}{
121 "professor" : "Professor Elizabeth Vandiver, Ph.D.",
122 "title" : "Aeneid of Virgil",
123 "description" : "The Aeneid is the great national epic of ancient Rome, and one of the most important works of literature ever written. It was basic to the education of generations of Romans, and has stirred the imaginations of such writers and artists as St. Augustine, Dante, Milton, and countless others. The Aeneid represents both Virgil's tribute to Homer and his attempt to re-imagine and surpass the Homeric model. With Professor Vandiver's help and instruction, you enter fully into the gripping tale that Virgil tells.",
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125 "lectures" : [
126 "Introduction",
127 "From Aeneas to Romulus",
128 "Rome, Augustus, and Virgil",
129 "The Opening of the Aeneid",
130 "From Troy to Carthage",
131 "Unhappy Dido",
132 "Funeral Games and a Journey to the Dead",
133 "Italy and the Future",
134 "Virgil's Iliad",
135 "The Inevitable Doom of Turnus",
136 "The Gods and Fate",
137 "The End of the Aeneid and Beyond"
138 ],
139 "id" : 303,
140 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/aeneid-of-virgil.html"
141}{
142 "professor" : "Professor Bart D. Ehrman, Ph.D., M.Div.",
143 "title" : "After the New Testament: The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers",
144 "description" : "The writings that make up the New Testament stand at the very foundation of Christianity. In these 27 books that represent the earliest surviving literary works of the young church, we have what eventually came to be regarded as sacred scripture, the canon of what was to become the most powerful and influential religion in the history of Western civilization.",
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146 "lectures" : [
147 "Introduction to the Apostolic Fathers",
148 "The Letter of 1 Clement",
149 "Church Structures in Early Christianity",
150 "The Letters of Ignatius",
151 "Doctrinal Problems in the Early Church",
152 "Still Other Doctrinal Disputes",
153 "The Letter of Polycarp to the Philippians",
154 "The Use of Authorities in the Early Church",
155 "The First Martyrology—Polycarp",
156 "The Persecution of the Christians",
157 "A Church Manual—The Didache of the Apostles",
158 "Ritual in the Early Church",
159 "Barnabas and the Opposition to the Jews",
160 "The Rise of Christian Anti-Semitism",
161 "2 Clement—An Early Sermon",
162 "The Use of Scripture in the Early Church",
163 "Papias—An Early Christian Interpreter",
164 "Oral Tradition in Early Christianity",
165 "The Shepherd of Hermas—An Apocalypse",
166 "Apocalypses in Early Christianity",
167 "The Letter to Diognetus—An Apology",
168 "Apologetics in Early Christianity",
169 "The Apostolic Fathers as a Collection",
170 "The Apostolic Fathers and Proto-orthodoxy"
171 ],
172 "id" : 6537,
173 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/after-the-new-testament-the-writings-of-the-apostolic-fathers.html"
174}{
175 "professor" : "Professor Dale Hoak, Ph.D.",
176 "title" : "Age of Henry VIII",
177 "description" : "Henry VIII (r. 1509–47) ruled an island kingdom about the size of Pennsylvania inhabited by fewer than 3 million people nearly 500 years ago, and yet he remains instantly recognizable to this day, his barrel-chested and bejeweled figure immortalized by the brush of Hans Holbein the Younger. Meet England's most famous monarch, who provokes questions such as:",
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179 "lectures" : [
180 "Henry VIII—Kingship and Revolution",
181 "The Wars of the Roses and Henry VII",
182 "Majesty and Regality—The Cult of Monarchy",
183 "Chivalry and War—The Accession of Henry VIII",
184 "King and Cardinal—England Under Wolsey",
185 "Magnificence, War, and Diplomacy, 1519-29",
186 "Anne Boleyn and the King's \"Great Matter\"",
187 "King, Church, and Clergy",
188 "Church and People—Heresy and Popular Religion",
189 "Rex Est Imperator—The Break With Rome",
190 "Parliament, Law, and the Nation",
191 "The Trial and Execution of Thomas More",
192 "Humanism and Piety",
193 "Wealth, Class, and Status",
194 "More's Utopia",
195 "The Dissolution of the Monasteries",
196 "Rebellion—The Pilgrimage of Grace",
197 "A Renaissance Court",
198 "Queen Anne Boleyn",
199 "Two Queens—Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves",
200 "Politics, Sex, and Religion—Catherine Howard",
201 "Queen Katherine Parr",
202 "Endgame—Politics and War, 1542-47",
203 "Retrospect—Henry VIII: The King and His Age"
204 ],
205 "id" : 8467,
206 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/age-of-henry-viii.html"
207}{
208 "professor" : "Professor Jeremy McInerney, Ph.D.",
209 "title" : "Age of Pericles",
210 "description" : "We call it the \"Golden Age\"—the period during the 5th century B.C. when the Greek city-state of Athens experienced a cultural flowering of extraordinary power and importance for Western culture. It is a period that still calls to us, still echoes, as we read the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, or Euripides; gaze at architectural wonders like the Parthenon; consider the wisdom passed down from Socrates and Plato; or, perhaps most of all, consider the origins of our own democracy.",
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212 "lectures" : [
213 "The Agora—An Ancient Marketplace",
214 "Athens and the Persian Wars",
215 "The Athenian Empire",
216 "The Career of Pericles",
217 "Aspasia",
218 "Parthenon and Acropolis",
219 "Panathenaea—The Festivals of Athena",
220 "Paideia—Education in Ancient Athens",
221 "Marriage in Pericles’s Athens",
222 "Family and Property",
223 "Coins, Trade, and Business",
224 "Death and Burial",
225 "Aeschylus and Early Tragedy",
226 "Sophoclean Tragedy",
227 "Euripides",
228 "Comedy in the Age of Aristophanes",
229 "Athenian Courts and Justice",
230 "Democracy and Government",
231 "The Age of Moderation",
232 "Freedom, Equality, and the Rights of Man",
233 "Athens after Pericles",
234 "Socrates and the Sophists",
235 "Plato",
236 "An Elegy to Athens"
237 ],
238 "id" : 3317,
239 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/age-of-pericles.html"
240}{
241 "professor" : "Professor Don Howard, Ph.D.",
242 "title" : "Albert Einstein: Physicist, Philosopher, Humanitarian",
243 "description" : "In May 1905, an unknown 26-year-old Swiss patent clerk wrote to a friend about four scientific papers he had been working on in his spare time. He casually alluded to one as \"revolutionary,\" and he confidently asserted that another would modify the \"theory of space and time.\" He had not yet started on a fifth paper that would also come out in 1905 and that would propose a surprising and earth-shaking equation, E=mc2.",
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245 "lectures" : [
246 "The Precocious Young Einstein",
247 "The Development of the Young Physicist",
248 "The Birth of the Quantum Hypothesis",
249 "Background to Special Relativity",
250 "Essentials of Special Relativity",
251 "From Bern to Berlin",
252 "Background to General Relativity",
253 "Essentials of General Relativity",
254 "From Berlin to Princeton",
255 "Philosophical Challenge of the New Physics",
256 "Einstein's Philosophy of Science",
257 "Zionism, Pacifism, and Internationalism",
258 "Einstein the Inventor and Musician",
259 "On the Road to the New Quantum Mechanics",
260 "Quantum Mechanics and Controversy",
261 "Einstein in Princeton—The Lonely Quest",
262 "Is Quantum Mechanics Complete?",
263 "The Expanding Universe",
264 "Einstein and the Bomb—Science Politicized",
265 "From the Manhattan Project to the Cold War",
266 "A Lifelong Commitment to Social Justice",
267 "Cosmic Religion and Jewish Identity",
268 "Einstein and Modernity",
269 "The Sage of Princeton—Einstein the Icon"
270 ],
271 "id" : 8122,
272 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/albert-einstein-physicist-philosopher-humanitarian.html"
273}{
274 "professor" : "Professor Jeremy McInerney, Ph.D.",
275 "title" : "Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age",
276 "description" : "This series of lectures examines a crucial period in the history of the ancient world, the age ushered in by the extraordinary conquests of Alexander the Great. In all the annals of the ancient world, few stories are more gripping than that of the Hellenistic Age. Between the conquests of Alexander the Great and the rise of Rome, Greek culture became the heart of a world-historical civilization whose intellectual, spiritual, and artistic influence endures to this day.",
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278 "lectures" : [
279 "Greeks and Macedonians",
280 "Alexander the Divine?",
281 "The Blazing Star",
282 "Alexander—Myth and Reality",
283 "The Formation of the Kingdoms",
284 "Egypt Under the Early Ptolemies",
285 "Alexandria and the Library",
286 "The Seleucid Realm",
287 "Pergamum",
288 "Bactria, the Edge of the Hellenistic World",
289 "Sculpture",
290 "Poetry",
291 "The Greek Novel",
292 "Stoics, Epicureans, and Skeptics",
293 "Kingship and Legitimacy",
294 "Benefaction",
295 "The Maccabean Revolt, Part I",
296 "The Maccabean Revolt, Part II",
297 "Rulers and Saviors",
298 "Economic Growth and Social Unrest",
299 "The Mood of the Hellenistic Age",
300 "Hellenism and the Western Mediterranean",
301 "The Freedom of the Greeks",
302 "Pax Romana"
303 ],
304 "id" : 327,
305 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/alexander-the-great-and-the-hellenistic-age.html"
306}{
307 "professor" : "Professor Timothy Taylor, M.Econ.",
308 "title" : "America and the New Global Economy",
309 "description" : "The global economy in 1950 was defined by a lack of interconnectedness and U.S. economic dominance. More than half a century later, stronger international economic ties and the rise of the Chinese and Indian economies are just two of the dramatic changes that are underway as globalization—the process of the world's diverse countries coming together and sharing experiences, events, and trade—continues to be a force in our economic climate.",
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311 "lectures" : [
312 "The World Economy since 1950",
313 "The U.S. in the World Economy—1960 to 1995",
314 "The U.S. Economy Resurgent?",
315 "Europe—From Catch-Up to Jobless Growth",
316 "The Single European Market",
317 "The Rise of the Euro",
318 "The Economy of the Soviet Union",
319 "Transitions from Communism to Markets",
320 "Japan's Economic Miracle",
321 "When Japan's Bubble Economy Burst",
322 "Government versus Market in East Asia",
323 "East Asia's Tigers—Restore the Roar?",
324 "China's Gradualist Economic Reforms",
325 "China's Challenges for Continued Growth",
326 "India and the License Raj",
327 "India's Turn toward Market Economics",
328 "Inherited Institutions in the Middle East",
329 "The Curse of Oil Wealth in the Middle East",
330 "Africa's Geography and History",
331 "Time for Optimism on Africa?",
332 "Latin America and Import Substitution",
333 "Markets or Populism in Latin America?",
334 "Globalization in Goods and Services",
335 "Globalization of Capital Flows",
336 "The Foreign Exchange Market",
337 "Migration—Senders and Recipients",
338 "Global Population Growth",
339 "World Poverty—Growth or Redistribution?",
340 "Global Food Markets—The Supply-Demand Race",
341 "An Urbanizing World",
342 "Women in the Global Economy",
343 "Improving Governance, Fighting Corruption",
344 "Foreign Aid—Promises and Limits",
345 "The Multilaterals—World Bank, IMF, WTO",
346 "The Economics of Global Climate Change",
347 "Globalization and Convergence"
348 ],
349 "id" : 5620,
350 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/america-and-the-new-global-economy.html"
351}{
352 "professor" : "Professor Mark A. Stoler, Ph.D.",
353 "title" : "America and the World: A Diplomatic History",
354 "description" : "It was a transformation unprecedented in global history. In barely more than two centuries, the United States evolved from a sparsely settled handful of colonies whose very survival was in grave doubt into the most powerful nation the world has ever known-militarily, economically, technologically, culturally, politically, and even ideologically.",
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356 "lectures" : [
357 "Achieving Independence",
358 "Confederation and the Constitution",
359 "The Great Debate—Jefferson versus Hamilton",
360 "From the Farewell Address to the Quasi War",
361 "Jefferson and the \"Empire of Liberty\"",
362 "The \"Second War for Independence\"",
363 "John Quincy Adams & American Continentalism",
364 "\"Manifest Destiny\" and War with Mexico",
365 "Causes and Diplomacy of the Civil War",
366 "The \"New Empire\" of Overseas Imperialism",
367 "Informal Empire—Roosevelt to Wilson",
368 "\"The War to End All Wars\"",
369 "The Peace Treaty and Wilson's Heritage",
370 "Interwar Isolationism and Internationalism",
371 "U.S. Entry into World War II",
372 "World War II Diplomacy and the FDR Legacy",
373 "Origins of the Cold War",
374 "Cold War Turns Hot—Asia and the Korean War",
375 "Eisenhower and the Global Cold War",
376 "Kennedy and the Ultimate Cold War Crisis",
377 "Vietnam and the War at Home",
378 "The Nixon-Kissinger \"Grand Design\"",
379 "Ideology Anew and the End of the Cold War",
380 "The United States and the World Since 1991"
381 ],
382 "id" : 8598,
383 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/america-and-the-world-a-diplomatic-history.html"
384}{
385 "professor" : "Professor Gary W. Gallagher, Ph.D.",
386 "title" : "American Civil War",
387 "description" : "Between 1861 and 1865, the clash of the greatest armies the Western hemisphere had ever seen turned small towns, little-known streams, and obscure meadows in the American countryside into names we will always remember. In those great battles streams ran red with blood, and the United States was truly born.",
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389 "lectures" : [
390 "Prelude to War",
391 "The Election of 1860",
392 "The Lower South Secedes",
393 "The Crisis at Fort Sumter",
394 "The Opposing Sides, I",
395 "The Opposing Sides, II",
396 "The Common Soldier",
397 "First Manassas or Bull Run",
398 "Contending for the Border States",
399 "Early Union Triumphs in the West",
400 "Shiloh and Corinth",
401 "The Peninsula Campaign",
402 "The Seven Days' Battles",
403 "The Kentucky Campaign of 1862",
404 "Antietam",
405 "The Background to Emancipation",
406 "Emancipation Completed",
407 "Filling the Ranks",
408 "Sinews of War—Finance and Supply",
409 "The War in the West, Winter 1862–63",
410 "The War in Virginia, Winter and Spring 1862–63",
411 "Gettysburg",
412 "Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and Tullahoma",
413 "A Season of Uncertainty, Summer and Fall 1863",
414 "Grant at Chattanooga",
415 "The Diplomatic Front",
416 "African Americans in Wartime, I",
417 "African Americans in Wartime, II",
418 "Wartime Reconstruction",
419 "The Naval War",
420 "The River War and Confederate Commerce Raiders",
421 "Women at War, I",
422 "Women at War, II",
423 "Stalemate in 1864",
424 "Sherman versus Johnston in Georgia",
425 "The Wilderness to Spotsylvania",
426 "Cold Harbor to Petersburg",
427 "The Confederate Home Front, I",
428 "The Confederate Home Front, II",
429 "The Northern Home Front, I",
430 "The Northern Home Front, II",
431 "Prisoners of War",
432 "Mobile Bay and Atlanta",
433 "Petersburg, the Crater, and the Valley",
434 "The Final Campaigns",
435 "Petersburg to Appomattox",
436 "Closing Scenes and Reckonings",
437 "Remembering the War"
438 ],
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440 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/american-civil-war.html"
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442 "professor" : "Professor Daniel N. Robinson, Ph.D.",
443 "title" : "American Ideals: Founding a \"Republic of Virtue\"",
444 "description" : "As nations proceed to invent themselves, refine themselves, and render themselves fit for the allegiance of their people, the Constitution of the United States remains the gold standard. For those fortunate to live under a rule of law respectful of the dignity of the person, there is such a feeling of familiarity and naturalness that little attention is paid to the monumental nature of the “invention”—and, therefore, the monumental effort required to preserve it.",
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446 "lectures" : [
447 "The Colonists as Faithful Subjects",
448 "Colonial Constitutions and Their Inspiration",
449 "Who “Founded” the United States?",
450 "Taxation Without Representation",
451 "The Declaration of Independence",
452 "The Royalist View of the Revolution",
453 "The Articles of Confederation",
454 "The Constitution of the United States, Part 1",
455 "The Constitution of the United States, Part 2",
456 "Publius",
457 "With Liberty and Justice For All",
458 "Paine and Burke"
459 ],
460 "id" : 4855,
461 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/american-ideals-founding-a-quot-republic-of-virtue-quot.html"
462}{
463 "professor" : "Professor Patrick N. Allitt, Ph.D.",
464 "title" : "American Identity",
465 "description" : "What defines an American? Is it the love of liberty, the pursuit of justice, the urge to invent, the desire for wealth, the drive to explore, the quest for spiritual values? The paradox of the American identity is that although the United States is a melting pot of many different traditions, motives, and ideals, there are nevertheless distinctive qualities that define the American character",
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467 "lectures" : [
468 "Being American",
469 "John Smith—The Colonial Promoter",
470 "William Penn—The Religious Liberty Advocate",
471 "Cotton Mather—The Puritan",
472 "Benjamin Franklin—The Improver",
473 "Francis Marion—The Guerrilla Soldier",
474 "Thomas Jefferson—The Patriot",
475 "Abigail Adams—The First Lady",
476 "Mother Ann Lee—The Religious Founder",
477 "Rittenhouse and Bartram—The Scientists",
478 "Eli Whitney—The Inventor",
479 "Lewis and Clark—The Explorers",
480 "Charles Grandison Finney—The Revivalist",
481 "Horace Mann—The Educator",
482 "Ralph Waldo Emerson—The Philosopher",
483 "Frederick Douglass—The Abolitionist",
484 "Edmund Ruffin—The Champion of Slavery",
485 "Brigham Young—The Religious Autocrat",
486 "Frederick Law Olmsted—The Landscape Architect",
487 "William Tecumseh Sherman—The General",
488 "Louisa May Alcott—The Professional Writer",
489 "Andrew Carnegie—Conscience-Stricken Entrepreneur",
490 "“Buffalo Bill”—The Westerner",
491 "Black Elk—The Holy Man",
492 "John Wesley Powell—The Desert Theorist",
493 "William Mulholland—The Water Engineer",
494 "Samuel Gompers—The Trade Unionist",
495 "Booker T. Washington—The \"Race Leader\"",
496 "Emma Goldman—The Anarchist",
497 "Abraham Cahan—The Immigrants' Advocate",
498 "Isabella Stewart Gardner—The Collector",
499 "Oliver Wendell Holmes—The Jurist",
500 "Henry Ford—The Mass Producer",
501 "Harry Houdini—The Sensationalist",
502 "Al Capone—The Crime Boss",
503 "Herbert Hoover—The Humanitarian",
504 "Helen Keller—The Inspiration",
505 "Duke Ellington—The Jazzman",
506 "Charles Lindbergh—The Aviator",
507 "Douglas MacArthur—The World-Power Warrior",
508 "Leonard Bernstein—The Musical Polymath",
509 "Shirley Temple—The Child Prodigy",
510 "George Wallace—The Demagogue",
511 "William F. Buckley, Jr.—The Conservative",
512 "Roberto Clemente—The Athlete",
513 "Betty Friedan—The Feminist",
514 "Jesse Jackson—The Civil Rights Legatee",
515 "Stability and Change"
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518 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/american-identity.html"
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520 "professor" : "Professor Patrick N. Allitt, Ph.D.",
521 "title" : "American Religious History",
522 "description" : "Join historian Patrick N. Allitt in exploring the story of religious life in America from the first European contacts to the late 20th century. Along the way, you learn the answers to two important questions:",
523 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/8/9/897_american_religious_history.1551366055.jpg",
524 "lectures" : [
525 "Major Features of American Religious History",
526 "The European Background",
527 "Natives and Newcomers",
528 "The Puritans",
529 "Colonial Religious Diversity",
530 "The Great Awakening",
531 "Religion and Revolution",
532 "The Second Great Awakening",
533 "Oneida and the Mormons",
534 "Catholicism",
535 "African-American Religion",
536 "The Civil War",
537 "Victorian Developments",
538 "Darwin and Other Dilemmas",
539 "Judaism in the 19th Century",
540 "Fundamentalism",
541 "War and Peace",
542 "Twentieth-Century Catholicism",
543 "The Affluent Society",
544 "The Civil Rights Movements",
545 "The Counterculture and Feminism",
546 "Asian Religions",
547 "Church and State",
548 "The Enduring Religious Sensibility"
549 ],
550 "id" : 897,
551 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/american-religious-history.html"
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553 "professor" : "Professor Allen C. Guelzo, Ph.D.",
554 "title" : "American Revolution",
555 "description" : "",
556 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/8/5/8514---packaging_flat_4.1551362763.jpg",
557 "lectures" : [
558 "The Imperial Crisis, 1763–1773",
559 "The Ancient Constitution",
560 "\"A Soldier What's Fit for a Soldier\"",
561 "\"How the British Regulars Fired and Fled\"",
562 "Standoff in Boston, 1775",
563 "Bunker Hill",
564 "The King, the Conqueror, and the Coward",
565 "Conquering Canada, Reconquering Boston",
566 "Common Sense",
567 "An Army Falls in Brooklyn",
568 "\"A Glorious Issue\"",
569 "Joy in Princeton",
570 "\"Congress Are Not a Fit Body\"",
571 "\"America Is Not Subdued\"",
572 "\"A Day Famous in the Annals of America\"",
573 "\"Not Yet the Air of Soldiers\"",
574 "With Washington at Valley Forge",
575 "The Widening War",
576 "The French Menace",
577 "Vain Hopes in the Carolinas",
578 "\"The Americans Fought Like Demons\"",
579 "The Reward of Loyalty",
580 "A Sword for General Washington",
581 "\"It Is All Over\""
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584 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/american-revolution.html"
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586 "professor" : "Professor Marshall C. Eakin, Ph.D.",
587 "title" : "Americas in the Revolutionary Era",
588 "description" : "The revolution that created the United States was only one of many American revolutions. From 1776 to 1825, wars for independence erupted throughout the Americas—from Boston to Buenos Aires—creating 19 new nations. What common roots did these revolutionary movements share? What role did such events as the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and the French Revolution play? How did the \"radicalism\" of the U.S. revolution affect other European colonies in the Western Hemisphere? How did Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion and occupation of Spain spark revolts across Spanish America?",
589 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/8/6/8617---packaging_flat_4.1551362789.jpg",
590 "lectures" : [
591 "Revolutions and Wars for Independence",
592 "Origins of Revolution in the Atlantic World",
593 "Colonial Empires on the Eve of Revolution",
594 "The \"North\" American Revolution Emerges",
595 "From Lexington and Concord to Yorktown",
596 "The Radicalism of the American Revolution",
597 "Slave Rebellion in St. Domingue",
598 "The Haitian Revolution",
599 "Seeds of Rebellion in Spanish America",
600 "Napoleon Invades Spain and Portugal",
601 "Francisco de Miranda—The Precursor",
602 "Simon Bolivar—The Liberator",
603 "Liberating Northern South America",
604 "San Martin and Argentine Independence",
605 "Bernardo O’Higgins and Chile",
606 "Liberating Peru",
607 "Mexico—Race and Class Warfare",
608 "Mexico—Empire and Chaos",
609 "Brazil—A Royal Revolution?",
610 "Failed Movements in the Caribbean",
611 "The British West Indies and Canada",
612 "The Strange Case of Paraguay",
613 "Revolutions Made and Unmade",
614 "The Aftermath of Independence"
615 ],
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617 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/americas-in-the-revolutionary-era.html"
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619 "professor" : "Professor Jeremy McInerney, Ph.D.",
620 "title" : "Ancient Greek Civilization",
621 "description" : "Why do the ancient Greeks occupy such a prominent place in conceptions of Western culture and identity? What about them made generations of influential scholars and writers view Hellenic culture as the uniquely essential starting point for understanding the art and reflection that define the West? Does this view tell the whole story?",
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624 "Greece and the Western World",
625 "Minoan Crete",
626 "Schliemann and Mycenae",
627 "The Long Twilight",
628 "The Age of Heroes",
629 "From Sicily to Syria—The Growth of Trade and Colonization",
630 "Delphi and Olympia",
631 "The Spartans",
632 "Revolution",
633 "Tyranny",
634 "The Origins of Democracy",
635 "Beyond Greece—The Persian Empire",
636 "The Persian Wars",
637 "The Athenian Empire",
638 "The Art of Democracy",
639 "Sacrifice and Greek Religion",
640 "Theater and the Competition of Art",
641 "Sex and Gender",
642 "The Peloponnesian War, Part I",
643 "The Peloponnesian War, Part II",
644 "Socrates on Trial",
645 "Slavery and Freedom",
646 "Athens in Decline?",
647 "Philip, Alexander, and Greece in Transition"
648 ],
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650 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/ancient-greek-civilization.html"
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652 "professor" : "Professor Luke Timothy Johnson, Ph.D.",
653 "title" : "Apostle Paul",
654 "description" : "Coming to grips with Christianity means coming to grips with Paul. There is no figure aside from Jesus himself who is more important to the history of this world religion, and no figure from the age of the early church about whom we know more or of whom we have a more rounded view.",
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656 "lectures" : [
657 "An Apostle Admired and Despised",
658 "How Should We Read Paul?",
659 "Paul’s Life and Letters",
660 "Problems of Early Christianity",
661 "First and Second Thessalonians",
662 "Life in the World—First Corinthians",
663 "Life in Christ—Second Corinthians",
664 "Life and Law—Galatians",
665 "Life and Righteousness—Romans",
666 "Fellowship—Letters from Captivity",
667 "History and Theology",
668 "Paul’s Influence"
669 ],
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671 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/apostle-paul.html"
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673 "professor" : "Professor David Zarefsky, Ph.D.",
674 "title" : "Argumentation: The Study of Effective Reasoning, 2nd Edition",
675 "description" : "What is effective argumentation? How does it work? Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and other great figures were masters of the craft. So how can you reason through your position and make the best possible case for it with the same skill and ease as the experts? Argumentation: The Study of Effective Reasoning, 2nd Edition is a rigorous introduction to the formal study of argumentation—communication that seeks to persuade others through reasoned judgment.",
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677 "lectures" : [
678 "Introducing Argumentation and Rhetoric",
679 "Underlying Assumptions of Argumentation",
680 "Formal and Informal Argumentation",
681 "History of Argumentation Studies",
682 "Argument Analysis and Diagramming",
683 "Complex Structures of Argument",
684 "Case Construction—Requirements and Options",
685 "Stasis—The Heart of the Controversy",
686 "Attack and Defense I",
687 "Attack and Defense II",
688 "Language and Style in Argument",
689 "Evaluating Evidence",
690 "Reasoning from Parts to Whole",
691 "Reasoning with Comparisons",
692 "Establishing Correlations",
693 "Moving from Cause to Effect",
694 "Commonplaces and Arguments from Form",
695 "Hybrid Patterns of Inference",
696 "Validity and Fallacies I",
697 "Validity and Fallacies II",
698 "Arguments between Friends",
699 "Arguments among Experts",
700 "Public Argument and Democratic Life",
701 "The Ends of Argumentation"
702 ],
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704 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/argumentation-the-study-of-effective-reasoning-2nd-edition.html"
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706 "professor" : "Professor Phillip Cary, Ph.D.",
707 "title" : "Augustine: Philosopher and Saint",
708 "description" : "Long before he was declared a saint by the Church, Augustine gained profound influence as both a Church Father and a Christian Platonist philosopher—defending the doctrine of the Trinity, defining the epochal idea of religious grace, delving into the inner relationship between God and soul, and much more.",
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710 "lectures" : [
711 "Church Father",
712 "Christian Platonist",
713 "Confessions—The Search for Wisdom",
714 "Confessions—Love and Tears",
715 "Confessions—The Road Home",
716 "Augustine’s Career as a Christian Writer",
717 "Faith, Love, and Grace",
718 "Evil, Free Will, Original Sin, and Predestination",
719 "Signs and Sacraments",
720 "The Inner Self",
721 "The Trinity and the Soul",
722 "The City of God"
723 ],
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725 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/augustine-philosopher-and-saint.html"
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727 "professor" : "Professor Robert Greenberg, Ph.D.",
728 "title" : "Bach and the High Baroque",
729 "description" : "Underappreciated in his own time, Johann Sebastian Bach has ascended to Olympian heights in the estimation of generations of music lovers. But what is it about his music that makes it great? Composer and musicologist Robert Greenberg helps you hear the extraordinary sweep of Bach's music and understand his compositional language—whether you're a devoted admirer or a casual listener.",
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731 "lectures" : [
732 "Introduction",
733 "Christmas, 1722",
734 "Introduction to the Baroque Aesthetic",
735 "Fugue",
736 "Historical Overview from Constantine through the Great Thinkers of the Baroque",
737 "Style Features of High Baroque Music, Part I—A Musical Glossary",
738 "Style Features of High Baroque Music, Part II—A Musical Glossary",
739 "Style Features of High Baroque Music, Part III—A Musical Glossary",
740 "Bach's Inheritance, Part I—The Protestant Reformation and the Rise of Lutheranism",
741 "Lutheranism, the Chorale and the Chorale Prelude",
742 "Bach's Inheritance, Part II—The Development of the Italian Style",
743 "The Italian Style, The Operatic Ideal and Lutheran Spirituality are Joined",
744 "Vivaldi, Bach and the Concerto, Part I—Vivaldi and the Venetian Opera",
745 "Vivaldi, Bach and the Concerto, Part II—Vivaldi's Model and Bach, Violin Concerto No. 2 in E Major",
746 "Vivaldi, Bach and the Concerto, Part II—Bach Violin Concerto No. 2 in E Major (cont.)",
747 "Vivaldi, Bach and the Concerto, Part III—The Concerto Grosso and the Brandenburg Concerto No. 2",
748 "Bach and the French Style, Part I—Dance and the Orchestral Suite",
749 "Dance and the Orchestral Suite (cont.)",
750 "Bach and the French Style, Part II—The Keyboard Suite",
751 "The Keyboard Suite (cont.)",
752 "Bach and Opera, Part I—Cantata No. 140 Wachet auf, uns ruft die stimme",
753 "Cantata No. 140 Wachet auf, uns ruft die stimme (cont.)",
754 "Bach and Opera, Part II—Opera Buffa and the Secular Cantata, The Coffee Cantata",
755 "Opera Buffa and the Secular Cantata, The Coffee Cantata (cont.)",
756 "Bach Transcendent—The Saint Matthew Passion, Part I",
757 "Bach Transcendent—The Saint Matthew Passion, Part II",
758 "Bach Transcendent—The Saint Matthew Passion, Part III",
759 "Bach Transcendent—The Saint Matthew Passion, Part IV",
760 "Bach Transcendent—The Goldberg Variations, Part I",
761 "Bach Transcendent—The Goldberg Variations, Part II",
762 "Bach Transcendent—The Goldberg Variations, Part III",
763 "Bach Transcendent—The Goldberg Variations, Part IV"
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768 "professor" : "Professor Robert Greenberg, Ph.D.",
769 "title" : "Beethoven's Piano Sonatas",
770 "description" : "Beethoven was a revolutionary man living in a revolutionary time. He captured his inner voice—demons and all—and the spirit of his time, and in doing so, created a body of music the likes of which no one had ever before imagined. \"An artist must never stand still,\" he once said. A virtuoso at the keyboard, Beethoven used the piano as his personal musical laboratory, and the piano sonata became, more than any other genre of music, a place where he could experiment with harmony, motivic development, the contextual use of form, and, most important, his developing view of music as a self-expressive art.",
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772 "lectures" : [
773 "Beethoven and the Piano",
774 "Homage to Mozart",
775 "The Grand Sonata, Part 1",
776 "The Grand Sonata, Part 2",
777 "Meaning and Metaphor",
778 "The Striking and Subversive, Op. 10 Continued",
779 "The Pathétique and the Sublime",
780 "The Opus 14 Sonatas",
781 "Motives, Bach and a Farewell to the 18th Century",
782 "A Genre Redefined",
783 "Sonata quasi una fantasia—The Moonlight",
784 "Lesser Siblings and a Pastoral Interlude",
785 "The Tempest",
786 "A Quartet of Sonatas",
787 "The Waldstein and the Heroic Style",
788 "The Appassionata and the Heroic Style",
789 "They Deserve Better, Part 1",
790 "They Deserve Better, Part 2",
791 "The Farewell Sonata",
792 "Experiments in a Dark Time",
793 "The Hammerklavier, Part 1",
794 "The Hammerklavier, Part 2",
795 "In a World of His Own",
796 "Reconciliation"
797 ],
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801 "professor" : "Professor Isaiah M. Gafni, Ph.D.",
802 "title" : "Beginnings of Judaism",
803 "description" : "How did Judaism develop from its biblical roots to the highly developed system we know today? What has changed—and what has remained constant? The answers to these questions are relevant to all faiths, as well as to anyone seeking to broaden their understanding of ancient history—a past that is inexorably linked to the present.",
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805 "lectures" : [
806 "The Beginnings of Judaism—Biblical Roots",
807 "New Challenges in the Late Biblical Period",
808 "Jews under Persian Rule—The Return to Zion",
809 "The Challenge of Hellenism",
810 "The Maccabees—From Rebels to Kings",
811 "The Canonization of the Hebrew Bible",
812 "Translating the Bible—The Septuagint",
813 "Adding to the Bible—The Apocrypha",
814 "Tobit—A New Path of Righteousness",
815 "Retelling the Bible—The Book of Jubilees",
816 "Revealing the Unknown",
817 "\"Judaism\" or \"Judaisms\"?",
818 "Sectarianism—Pharisees and Sadducees",
819 "Out of the Caves—Discovery at Qumran",
820 "The End of Days—Messianic Eschatology",
821 "Other Lands, Other Jews—The Diaspora",
822 "Judaism in the Hellenistic World",
823 "Changing God's Address—Temple to Synagogue",
824 "Rome Arrives in Jerusalem",
825 "Parting with the Temple",
826 "From Jerusalem to Yavne—Rabbinic Judaism",
827 "The Shaping of Rabbinic Judaism",
828 "A Violent Epilogue—Bar Kokhba",
829 "From \"Roots\" to \"Tree\""
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832 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/beginnings-of-judaism.html"
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834 "professor" : "Professor David B. Ruderman, Ph.D.",
835 "title" : "Between Cross and Crescent: Jewish Civilization from Mohammed to Spinoza",
836 "description" : "What is it like to practice your faith in an environment dominated by another? To evolve as a people when all of the world around you moves to religious and cultural rhythms very different from your own? To maintain your unity as a living community—and always to be aware of that sense of community—even when your numbers have been scattered across many lands, without a common government, a common country, or even a common language?",
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838 "lectures" : [
839 "On Studying Jewish History",
840 "The Rabbinic Legacy prior to Islam",
841 "The Beginnings of Jewish Life under Islam",
842 "Baghdad and the Gaonic Age",
843 "Saadia Gaon and His World",
844 "The Philosophy of Saadia Gaon",
845 "The Rise of the Spanish Jewish Community",
846 "Judah ha-Levi’s Cultural Critique",
847 "Moses Maimonides’s Philosophy of Judaism",
848 "Jewish Beginnings in Christian Europe",
849 "The Church and the Jews prior to 1096",
850 "The Crusades and the Jews",
851 "Patterns of Jewish Culture—Rabbinic Learning",
852 "Patterns of Jewish Culture—Kabbalah",
853 "Patterns of Jewish Culture—German Pietism",
854 "The Medieval Jewish-Christian Debate",
855 "Understanding Medieval Anti-Semitism",
856 "Notes on the Medieval Jewish Family",
857 "The Decline and Expulsion of Spanish Jewry",
858 "Italian Jewry in the Early Modern Period",
859 "Kabbalah and Society in 16th-Century Safed",
860 "Shabbetai Zevi—The Mystical Messiah",
861 "The Rise of Eastern European Jewry",
862 "The Sephardim of Amsterdam"
863 ],
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867 "professor" : "Professor Alexis Q. Castor, Ph.D.",
868 "title" : "Between the Rivers: The History of Ancient Mesopotamia",
869 "description" : "What pieces of the distant past drift before your mind's eye when you think of ancient Mesopotamia? Perhaps it's the fabled hanging gardens of Babylon. Or is it entire populations paralyzed by fear before a ruthless invader? Maybe it's priests making sacrifices to the gods who rule over and protect their city.",
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871 "lectures" : [
872 "The Iraq Museum",
873 "Geography and Environment",
874 "Discovering Mesopotamia",
875 "Archaeological Methods",
876 "Farming and Early Settlements",
877 "The Uruk Phenomenon",
878 "Writing",
879 "Temples",
880 "Mesopotamian Deities",
881 "Gilgamesh—Hero and King",
882 "The Early Dynastic Period",
883 "Warfare and Diplomacy",
884 "The Royal Cemetery at Ur",
885 "The Akkadians",
886 "Ideology of Kingship—Naram-Sin and Gudea",
887 "The Ur III Dynasty",
888 "Life in a Mesopotamian City",
889 "Food and Drink",
890 "Assyrian Trade Networks",
891 "Hammurabi of Babylon",
892 "Zimri-Lim of Mari",
893 "Laws",
894 "Medicine, Science, and Math",
895 "Poetry and Literature",
896 "Internationalism",
897 "Assyrian Expansion",
898 "Sargon II",
899 "Ideology of Empire",
900 "Control and Revolt",
901 "Medes and the Neo-Babylonian State",
902 "The Rise of the Achaemenids",
903 "Persians in Egypt and Greece",
904 "Xerxes’s Invasion of Greece",
905 "Persian Art and Culture",
906 "Alexander the Great",
907 "After Alexander"
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910 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/between-the-rivers-the-history-of-ancient-mesopotamia.html"
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912 "professor" : "Father Joseph Koterski, S.J., Ph.D.",
913 "title" : "Biblical Wisdom Literature",
914 "description" : "In the history of wisdom literature, few traditions match the solace and profundity found in the teachings of the Bible. For centuries, people have taken comfort and insight from the familiar yet eternally resonant writings of the Bible's wisdom literature. Through their inspirational teachings, the sages of the biblical wisdom tradition offer time-honored advice about some of life's most difficult questions: What is the reward of virtue? What is the best way to raise one's children? How can we best deal with the uncertainty of life?",
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916 "lectures" : [
917 "Introduction to Biblical Wisdom Literature",
918 "The Place of Proverbs in the Bible",
919 "Collections of Proverbs",
920 "The Poems of the Book of Proverbs",
921 "The Relation of Proverbs to Covenant",
922 "Interlude—Some Wisdom Psalms",
923 "Job and the Suffering of the Innocent",
924 "Job—The First Cycle of Conversations",
925 "Job—Deepening the Conversation",
926 "Job—Second and Third Conversation Cycles",
927 "Job—The Wisdom Poem and the Conclusion",
928 "Job—Elihu's Defense of God's Honor",
929 "Job—Reflections on the Book as a Whole",
930 "Interlude—Prayer in Times of Suffering",
931 "Qoheleth—The Inadequacy of Human Wisdom",
932 "Qoheleth—Skepticism about Easy Answers",
933 "Qoheleth—Keeping Faith during Confusion",
934 "Interlude—Wisdom Psalms for Uncertainty",
935 "Sirach—A Traditional Approach to Wisdom",
936 "Sirach on the Cultivation of Virtue",
937 "Sirach's Wisdom Poetry",
938 "Sirach on Divine Providence within History",
939 "The Song of Songs—Love as the Answer",
940 "The Song of Songs—Levels of Meaning",
941 "Interlude—Wisdom Psalms on Perseverance",
942 "Daniel—Wisdom through Dream Visions",
943 "Daniel—God's Providential Plan for History",
944 "The Wisdom of Solomon on Divine Justice",
945 "The Wisdom of Solomon on Death",
946 "The Wisdom of Solomon on Prayer",
947 "The Wisdom of Solomon on Divine Providence",
948 "Interlude—A Wisdom Psalm on Torah",
949 "Jesus as Wisdom Teacher",
950 "Jesus and the Wisdom Stories in the Gospels",
951 "Jesus and the Sermon on the Mount",
952 "Overview of Biblical Wisdom Literature"
953 ],
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957 "professor" : "Professor Barbara J. King, Ph.D.",
958 "title" : "Biological Anthropology: An Evolutionary Perspective",
959 "description" : "When we consider ourselves, not as static beings fixed in time but as dynamic, ever-changing creatures, our viewpoint of human history becomes different and captivating.",
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962 "What is Biological Anthropology?",
963 "How Evolution Works",
964 "The Debate Over Evolution",
965 "Matter Arising—New Species",
966 "Prosimians, Monkeys, and Apes",
967 "Monkey and Ape Social Behavior",
968 "The Mind of the Great Ape",
969 "Models for Human Ancestors?",
970 "Introducing the Hominids",
971 "Lucy and Company",
972 "Stones and Bones",
973 "Out of Africa",
974 "Who Were the Neandertals?",
975 "Did Hunting Make Us Human?",
976 "The Prehistory of Gender",
977 "Modern Human Anatomy and Behavior",
978 "On the Origins of Homo sapiens",
979 "Language",
980 "Do Human Races Exist?",
981 "Modern Human Variation",
982 "Body Fat, Diet, and Obesity",
983 "The Body and Mind Evolving",
984 "Tyranny of the Gene?",
985 "Evolution and Our Future"
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990 "professor" : "Professor Stephen Nowicki, Ph.D.",
991 "title" : "Biology: The Science of Life",
992 "description" : "One of the greatest scientific feats of our era is the astonishing progress made in understanding the intricate machinery of life. We are living in the most productive phase so far in this quest, as researchers delve ever deeper into the workings of living systems, turning their discoveries into new medical treatments, improved methods of growing food, and innovative new products.",
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995 "The Scope of \"Life\"",
996 "More on the Origin of Life",
997 "The Organism and the Cell",
998 "Proteins—How Things Get Done in the Cell",
999 "Which Molecule Holds the Code?",
1000 "The Double Helix",
1001 "The Nuts and Bolts of Replicating DNA",
1002 "The Central Dogma",
1003 "The Genetic Code",
1004 "From DNA to RNA",
1005 "From RNA to Protein",
1006 "When Mistakes Happen",
1007 "Dividing DNA Between Dividing Cells",
1008 "Mendel and His Pea Plants",
1009 "How Sex Leads to Variation",
1010 "Genes and Chromosomes",
1011 "Charles Darwin and \"The Origin of Species\"",
1012 "Natural Selection in Action",
1013 "Reconciling Darwin and Mendel",
1014 "Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change",
1015 "What Are Species and How Do New Ones Arise?",
1016 "More on the Origin of New Species",
1017 "Reconstructing Evolution",
1018 "The History of Life, Revisited",
1019 "From Cells to Organisms",
1020 "Control of Gene Expression I",
1021 "Control of Gene Expression II",
1022 "Getting Proteins to the Right Place",
1023 "Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology",
1024 "How Cells Talk—Signals and Receptors",
1025 "How Cells Talk—Ways That Cells Respond",
1026 "From One Cell to Many in an Organism",
1027 "Patterns of Early Development",
1028 "Determination and Differentiation",
1029 "Induction and Pattern Formation",
1030 "Genes and Development",
1031 "Homeostasis",
1032 "Hormones in Animals",
1033 "What is Special about Neurons?",
1034 "Action Potentials and Synapses",
1035 "Synaptic Integration and Memory",
1036 "Sensory Function",
1037 "How Muscles Work",
1038 "The Innate Immune System",
1039 "The Acquired Immune System",
1040 "Form and Function in Plants I",
1041 "Form and Function in Plants II",
1042 "Behavior as an Adaptive Trait",
1043 "Energy and Resources in Living Systems",
1044 "How Energy is Harnessed by Cells",
1045 "Enzymes—Making Chemistry Work in Cells",
1046 "Cellular Currencies of Energy",
1047 "Making ATP—Glycolysis",
1048 "Making ATP—Cellular Respiration",
1049 "Making ATP—The Chemiosmotic Theory",
1050 "Capturing Energy from Sunlight",
1051 "The Reactions of Photosynthesis",
1052 "Resources and Life Histories",
1053 "The Structure of Populations",
1054 "Population Growth",
1055 "What Limits Population Growth?",
1056 "Costs and Benefits of Behavior",
1057 "Altruism and Mate Selection",
1058 "Ecological Interactions Among Species",
1059 "Predators and Competitors",
1060 "Competition and the Ecological Niche",
1061 "Energy in Ecosystems",
1062 "Nutrients in Ecosystems",
1063 "How Predictable Are Ecological Communities?",
1064 "Biogeography",
1065 "Human Population Growth",
1066 "The Human Asteroid"
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1071 "professor" : "Professor Robert Sapolsky, Ph.D.",
1072 "title" : "Biology and Human Behavior: The Neurological Origins of Individuality, 2nd Edition",
1073 "description" : "When are we responsible for our own actions, and when are we in the grip of biological forces beyond our control? This intriguing question is the scientific province of behavioral biology, a field that explores interactions among the brain, mind, body, and environment that have a surprising influence on how we behave—from the people we fall in love with, to the intensity of our spiritual lives, to the degree of our aggressive impulses. In short, it is the study of how our brains make us the individuals that we are.",
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1076 "Biology and Behavior—An Introduction",
1077 "The Basic Cells of the Nervous System",
1078 "How Two Neurons Communicate",
1079 "Learning and Synaptic Plasticity",
1080 "The Dynamics of Interacting Neurons",
1081 "The Limbic System",
1082 "The Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)",
1083 "The Regulation of Hormones by the Brain",
1084 "The Regulation of the Brain by Hormones",
1085 "The Evolution of Behavior",
1086 "The Evolution of Behavior—Some Examples",
1087 "Cooperation, Competition, and Neuroeconomics",
1088 "What Do Genes Do? Microevolution of Genes",
1089 "What Do Genes Do? Macroevolution of Genes",
1090 "Behavior Genetics",
1091 "Behavior Genetics and Prenatal Environment",
1092 "An Introduction to Ethology",
1093 "Neuroethology",
1094 "The Neurobiology of Aggression I",
1095 "The Neurobiology of Aggression II",
1096 "Hormones and Aggression",
1097 "Early Experience and Aggression",
1098 "Evolution, Aggression, and Cooperation",
1099 "A Summary"
1100 ],
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1104 "professor" : "Professor Alan Charles Kors, Ph.D.",
1105 "title" : "Birth of the Modern Mind: The Intellectual History of the 17th and 18th Centuries",
1106 "description" : "Modern science, representative democracy, and a wave of wars were caused by a revolution of the intellect that seized Europe between 1600 and 1800. Shaking the minds of the continent like few things before or since, this revolution challenged previous ways of understanding reality and sparked what Professor Alan Charles Kors calls \"perhaps the most profound transformation of European, if not human, life.\"",
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1109 "Introduction—Intellectual History and Conceptual Change",
1110 "The Dawn of the 17th Century—Aristotelian Scholasticism",
1111 "The New Vision of Francis Bacon",
1112 "The New Astronomy and Cosmology",
1113 "Descartes's Dream of Perfect Knowledge",
1114 "The Specter of Thomas Hobbes",
1115 "Skepticism and Jansenism—Blaise Pascal",
1116 "Newton's Discovery",
1117 "The Newtonian Revolution",
1118 "John Locke—The Revolution in Knowledge",
1119 "The Lockean Moment",
1120 "Skepticism and Calvinism—Pierre Bayle",
1121 "The Moderns—The Generation of 1680-1715",
1122 "Introduction to Deism",
1123 "The Conflict Between Deism and Christianity",
1124 "Montesquieu and the Problem of Relativism",
1125 "Voltaire—Bringing England To France",
1126 "Bishop Joseph Butler and God's Providence",
1127 "The Skeptical Challenge to Optimism—David Hume",
1128 "The Assault upon Philosophical Optimism—Voltaire",
1129 "The Philosophes—The Triumph of the French Enlightenment",
1130 "Beccaria and Enlightened Reform",
1131 "Rousseau's Dissent",
1132 "Materialism & Naturalism—The Boundaries of the Enlightenment"
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1137 "professor" : "Professor J. Rufus Fears, Ph.D.",
1138 "title" : "Books That Have Made History: Books That Can Change Your Life",
1139 "description" : "What makes a written work eternal—its message still so fundamental to the way we live that it continues to speak to us, hundreds or thousands of years distant from the lifetime of its author? Why do we still respond to an ancient Greek playwright's tale of the Titan so committed to humanity's survival that he is willing to endure eternal torture in his defiance of the gods? To the cold advice of a 16th-century Florentine exiled from the corridors of power? To the words of a World War I German veteran writing of the horrors of endless trench warfare?",
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1141 "lectures" : [
1142 "Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers From Prison",
1143 "Homer, Iliad",
1144 "Marcus Aurelius, Meditations",
1145 "Bhagavad Gita",
1146 "Book of Exodus",
1147 "Gospel of Mark",
1148 "Koran",
1149 "Gilgamesh",
1150 "Beowulf",
1151 "Book of Job",
1152 "Aeschylus, Oresteia",
1153 "Euripides, Bacchae",
1154 "Plato, Phaedo",
1155 "Dante, The Divine Comedy",
1156 "Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice",
1157 "Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound",
1158 "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago",
1159 "Shakespeare, Julius Caesar",
1160 "George Orwell, 1984",
1161 "Virgil, Aeneid",
1162 "Pericles, Oration; Lincoln, Gettysburg Address",
1163 "Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front",
1164 "Confucius, The Analects",
1165 "Machiavelli, The Prince",
1166 "Plato, Republic",
1167 "John Stuart Mill, On Liberty",
1168 "Sir Thomas Malory, Morte d'Arthur",
1169 "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part 1",
1170 "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part 2",
1171 "Henry David Thoreau, Walden",
1172 "Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire",
1173 "Lord Acton, The History of Freedom",
1174 "Cicero, On Moral Duties (De Officiis)",
1175 "Gandhi, An Autobiography",
1176 "Churchill, My Early Life; Painting as a Pastime; WWII",
1177 "Lessons from the Great Books"
1178 ],
1179 "id" : 4600,
1180 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/books-that-have-made-history-books-that-can-change-your-life.html"
1181}{
1182 "professor" : "Professor Malcolm David Eckel, Ph.D.",
1183 "title" : "Buddhism",
1184 "description" : "A religion without God? How could that be? And how could it have captured and captivated so many millions of people in so many countries for so many centuries? No doubt you can picture the Buddha—seated serenely, feet crossed in front of him, hands folded in his lap. But who was the real person behind this image? What did he say about the nature and purpose of life? What were the origins of the concepts of reincarnation, nirvana, karma, and Zen, and what is the Buddhist understanding of them? Buddhism is your opportunity to trace the history, principles, and evolution of a theology that is both familiar and foreign.",
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1186 "lectures" : [
1187 "What is Buddhism?",
1188 "India at the Time of the Buddha",
1189 "The Doctrine of Reincarnation",
1190 "The Story of the Buddha",
1191 "All Is Suffering",
1192 "The Path to Nirvana",
1193 "The Buddhist Monastic Community",
1194 "Buddhist Art and Architecture",
1195 "Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia",
1196 "Mahayana Buddhism and the Bodhisattva Ideal",
1197 "Celestial Buddhas and Bodhisattvas",
1198 "Emptiness",
1199 "Buddhist Philosophy",
1200 "Buddhist Tantra",
1201 "The Theory and Practice of the Mandala",
1202 "The “First Diffusion of the Dharma” in Tibet",
1203 "The Schools of Tibetan Buddhism",
1204 "The Dalai Lama",
1205 "The Origins of Chinese Buddhism",
1206 "The Classical Period of Chinese Buddhism",
1207 "The Origins of Japanese Buddhism",
1208 "Honen, Shinran and Nichiren",
1209 "Zen",
1210 "Buddhism in America"
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1213 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/buddhism.html"
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1215 "professor" : "Professor Brooks Landon, Ph.D.",
1216 "title" : "Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft",
1217 "description" : "Great writing begins—and ends—with the sentence.",
1218 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/2/3/2368---packaging_flat_4.1551362615.jpg",
1219 "lectures" : [
1220 "A Sequence of Words",
1221 "Grammar and Rhetoric",
1222 "Propositions and Meaning",
1223 "How Sentences Grow",
1224 "Adjectival Steps",
1225 "The Rhythm of Cumulative Syntax",
1226 "Direction of Modification",
1227 "Coordinate, Subordinate, and Mixed Patterns",
1228 "Coordinate Cumulative Sentences",
1229 "Subordinate and Mixed Cumulatives",
1230 "Prompts of Comparison",
1231 "Prompts of Explanation",
1232 "The Riddle of Prose Rhythm",
1233 "Cumulative Syntax to Create Suspense",
1234 "Degrees of Suspensiveness",
1235 "The Mechanics of Delay",
1236 "Prefab Patterns for Suspense",
1237 "Balanced Sentences and Balanced Forms",
1238 "The Rhythm of Twos",
1239 "The Rhythm of Threes",
1240 "Balanced Series and Serial Balances",
1241 "Master Sentences",
1242 "Sentences in Sequence",
1243 "Sentences and Prose Style"
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1248 "professor" : "Professor Frank B. Cross, J.D.",
1249 "title" : "Business Law: Contracts",
1250 "description" : "What is a contract? How can you make one binding? How can you avoid being prematurely bound by one? What can you do to get out of a contract? What remedies are available if someone breaches your contract? What special rules apply to international contracts? These questions and the other important issues of legally enforceable promises are covered in the eight lectures of this course.",
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1253 "Foundations of Contract",
1254 "Offer and Acceptance",
1255 "Consideration, Capacity, and Form",
1256 "Geniuneness of Assent",
1257 "Performance and Discharge",
1258 "Remedies",
1259 "Third-Party Rights",
1260 "International Contracts"
1261 ],
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1263 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/business-law-contracts.html"
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1265 "professor" : "Professor Frank B. Cross, J.D.",
1266 "title" : "Business Law: Negligence and Torts",
1267 "description" : "This course addresses two important questions: When is someone else legally responsible for harm done to you? When are you legally responsible for harm done to someone else? This course of eight lectures discusses torts, the body of law designed to redress through civil litigation harms done to persons. As with all bodies of law, in order to analyze the legal implications of a potentially tortious action, it is necessary to blend common sense and pragmatic thinking with an understanding of legal definitions as they have evolved over time.",
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1269 "lectures" : [
1270 "Foundations of Torts and Negligence Introduction",
1271 "Negligence (continued)",
1272 "Intentional Interferences with Property",
1273 "Defamation",
1274 "Privacy and Emotional Distress",
1275 "Product Liability",
1276 "Business Torts",
1277 "Trademark"
1278 ],
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1280 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/business-law-negligence-and-torts.html"
1281}{
1282 "professor" : "Professor Robert Greenberg, Ph.D.",
1283 "title" : "Chamber Music of Mozart",
1284 "description" : "What made Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart perhaps the most complete \"musical package\" in history—a man who created more masterpieces of virtually every musical genre of his day than any other composer before or since? There is perhaps no better way to explore this question than by studying his chamber music. Nowhere is Mozart's maturity and mastery more apparent than in the chamber music he wrote during the last 10 years of his life.",
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1286 "lectures" : [
1287 "A Blessing of Inconceivable Richness",
1288 "\"The Hunt\"",
1289 "\"The Hunt,\" Part 2",
1290 "The Flute Quartet in D Major",
1291 "Vienna",
1292 "Haydn and Inspiration",
1293 "Exclusively For His Friends",
1294 "Duos For Violin and Viola",
1295 "Not Just a Pretty Face",
1296 "Blowin’ in the Winds",
1297 "The Piano Trios",
1298 "The Piano Quartets",
1299 "String Quartet in A Major, K. 464",
1300 "The String Quintets",
1301 "Dissonance—Musical and Financial",
1302 "Basset Horns and Harmonicas"
1303 ],
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1307 "professor" : "Professor J. Rufus Fears, Ph.D.",
1308 "title" : "Churchill",
1309 "description" : "Winston Churchill is arguably the greatest leader of the 20th century, and one of the greatest democratic statesmen ever. His friend, colleague, and esteemed political foe Clement Attlee memorialized him as \"the greatest Englishman of our time—I think the greatest citizen of the world of our time.\" Churchill is eminently worthy of study because he is proof that a single individual can change the course of history for the better and make of life a blessed and noble thing, despite public and private trials too numerous to name.",
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1311 "lectures" : [
1312 "Heritage and Destiny",
1313 "Young Churchill",
1314 "On the Empire’s Frontier",
1315 "Political Beginnings",
1316 "Churchill and Controversy",
1317 "Post-War Challenges",
1318 "In the Wilderness",
1319 "The Nazi Menace",
1320 "Rallying the Nation",
1321 "The Tide of War Turns",
1322 "Champion of Freedom",
1323 "The Legacy of Churchill"
1324 ],
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1326 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/churchill.html"
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1328 "professor" : "Professor John E. Finn, Ph.D.",
1329 "title" : "Civil Liberties and the Bill of Rights",
1330 "description" : "The civil liberties and constitutional rights our nation's citizens possess—not only in theory, but in the courtroom, where the state can be forced to honor those liberties—are a uniquely American invention. And when we were taught history and learned about the Constitution and Bill of Rights, we were always made aware of that uniqueness, of the extraordinary experiment that gave every citizen of this new nation a gift possessed by no others. But what, exactly, was that gift?",
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1332 "lectures" : [
1333 "What Are Civil Liberties?",
1334 "The Bill of Rights—An Overview",
1335 "Two Types of Liberty—Positive and Negative",
1336 "The Court and Constitutional Interpretation",
1337 "Marbury v. Madison and Judicial Review",
1338 "Private Property and the Founding",
1339 "Lochner v. New York and Economic Due Process",
1340 "The Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment",
1341 "Fundamental Rights—Privacy and Personhood",
1342 "Privacy—Early Cases",
1343 "Roe v. Wade and Reproductive Autonomy",
1344 "Privacy and Autonomy—From Roe to Casey",
1345 "Other Privacy Interests—Family",
1346 "Other Privacy Interests—Sexuality",
1347 "Same-Sex Marriages and the Constitution",
1348 "The Right to Die and the Constitution",
1349 "Cruel and Unusual? The Death Penalty",
1350 "The First Amendment—An Overview",
1351 "Internal Security and the First Amendment",
1352 "Symbolic Speech and Expressive Conduct",
1353 "Indecency and Obscenity",
1354 "Hate Speech and Fighting Words",
1355 "The Right to Silence",
1356 "Why Is Freedom of Religion So Complex?",
1357 "School Prayer and the Establishment Clause",
1358 "Religion—Strict Separation or Accommodation?",
1359 "The Free Exercise Clause—Acting on Beliefs",
1360 "Free Exercisee and “the Peyote Case”",
1361 "Two Religion Clauses—One Definition?",
1362 "Slavery and Dred Scott to Equal Protection",
1363 "Brown v. Board of Education",
1364 "Equality and Affirmative Action",
1365 "Equality and Gender Discrimination",
1366 "Gender Discrimination as Semi-Suspect",
1367 "The Future of Equal Protection?",
1368 "Citizens and Civil Liberties"
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1371 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/civil-liberties-and-the-bill-of-rights.html"
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1373 "professor" : "Professor Arnold Weinstein, Ph.D.",
1374 "title" : "Classic Novels: Meeting the Challenge of Great Literature",
1375 "description" : "If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go? Europe? South America? The remote reaches of the African continent?",
1376 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/2/3/2310---packaging_flat_4.1551364573.jpg",
1377 "lectures" : [
1378 "Meeting the Challenge of Great Literature",
1379 "Defoe—Moll Flanders",
1380 "Sterne—Tristram Shandy",
1381 "Laclos—Les Liaisons Dangereuses",
1382 "Laclos—Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Part 2",
1383 "Balzac—Père Goriot",
1384 "Balzac—Père Goriot, Part 2",
1385 "Brontë—Wuthering Heights",
1386 "Brontë—Wuthering Heights, Part 2",
1387 "Melville—Moby-Dick",
1388 "Melville—Moby-Dick, Part 2",
1389 "Dickens—Bleak House",
1390 "Dickens—Bleak House, Part 2",
1391 "Flaubert—Madame Bovary",
1392 "Flaubert—Madame Bovary, Part 2",
1393 "Tolstoy—War and Peace",
1394 "Tolstoy—War and Peace, Part 2",
1395 "Dostoevsky—The Brothers Karamazov",
1396 "Dostoevsky—The Brothers Karamazov, Part 2",
1397 "Conrad—Heart of Darkness",
1398 "Mann—Death in Venice",
1399 "Kafka—\"The Metamorphosis\"",
1400 "Kafka—The Trial",
1401 "Proust—Remembrance of Things Past",
1402 "Proust—Remembrance of Things Past, Part 2",
1403 "Proust—Remembrance of Things Past, Part 3",
1404 "Joyce—Ulysses",
1405 "Joyce—Ulysses, Part 2",
1406 "Joyce—Ulysses, Part 3",
1407 "Woolf—To the Lighthouse",
1408 "Woolf—To the Lighthouse, Part 2",
1409 "Faulkner—As I Lay Dying",
1410 "Faulkner—As I Lay Dying, Part 2",
1411 "García Márquez—One Hundred Years of Solitude",
1412 "One Hundred Years of Solitude, Part 2",
1413 "Ending the Course, Beginning the World"
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1418 "professor" : "Professor Elizabeth Vandiver, Ph.D.",
1419 "title" : "Classical Mythology",
1420 "description" : "From Athena to Zeus, the characters and stories of classical mythology have been both unforgettable and profoundly influential. They have inspired and shaped everything from great art and literature, to our notions of sexuality and gender roles, to the themes of popular films and TV shows.",
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1423 "Introduction",
1424 "What Is Myth?",
1425 "Why Is Myth?",
1426 "“First Was Chaos”",
1427 "The Reign of the Olympians",
1428 "Immortals and Mortals",
1429 "Demeter, Persephone, and the Conquest of Death",
1430 "The Eleusinian Mysteries and the Afterlife",
1431 "Apollo and Artemis",
1432 "Hermes and Dionysos",
1433 "Laughter-Loving Aphrodite",
1434 "Culture, Prehistory, and the \"Great Goddess\"",
1435 "Humans, Heroes, and Half-Gods",
1436 "Theseus and the \"Test-and-Quest\" Myth",
1437 "From Myth to History and Back Again",
1438 "The Greatest Hero of All",
1439 "The Trojan War",
1440 "The Terrible House of Atreus",
1441 "Blood Vengeance, Justice, and the Furies",
1442 "The Tragedies of King Oedipus",
1443 "Monstrous Females and Female Monsters",
1444 "Roman Founders, Roman Fables",
1445 "“Gods Are Useful”",
1446 "From Ovid to the Stars"
1447 ],
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1449 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/classical-mythology.html"
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1451 "professor" : "Professor Arnold Weinstein, Ph.D.",
1452 "title" : "Classics of American Literature",
1453 "description" : "To truly understand the United States of America, you must explore its literary tradition. Works by Melville, Whitman, Faulkner, Hemingway, and others are more than just masterpieces of Western literature – they’re powerful windows into America’s spirit. According to Professor Arnold Weinstein, “American classics are wonderfully rich fare. America is a mythic land, a place with a sense of its own destiny and promise, a place that has experienced bloody wars to achieve that destiny. The events of American history shine forth in our classics.\"",
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1455 "lectures" : [
1456 "Introduction to Classics of American Literature",
1457 "Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography—The First American Story",
1458 "Washington Irving—The First American Storyteller",
1459 "Ralph Waldo Emerson Yesterday—America's Coming of Age",
1460 "Emerson Today—Architect of American Values",
1461 "Emerson Tomorrow—Deconstructing Culture and Self",
1462 "Henry David Thoreau—Countercultural Hero",
1463 "Thoreau—Stylist and Humorist Extraordinaire",
1464 "Walden—Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow",
1465 "Edgar Allan Poe",
1466 "Poe—Ghost Writer",
1467 "Poe's Legacy—The Self as “Haunted Palace”",
1468 "Nathaniel Hawthorne and the American Past",
1469 "The Scarlet Letter—Puritan Romance",
1470 "Hawthorne's “A”—Interpretation and Semiosis",
1471 "The Scarlet Letter—Political Tract or Psychological Study?",
1472 "Hawthorne Our Contemporary",
1473 "Herman Melville and the Making of Moby-Dick",
1474 "The Biggest Fish Story of Them All",
1475 "Ahab and the White Whale",
1476 "Moby-Dick—Tragedy of Perspective",
1477 "Melville's “Benito Cereno”—American (Mis)adventure at Sea",
1478 "“Benito Cereno”—Theater of Power or Power of Theater?",
1479 "Walt Whitman—The American Bard Appears",
1480 "Whitman—Poet of the Body",
1481 "Whitman—Poet of the City",
1482 "Whitman—Poet of Death",
1483 "The Whitman Legacy",
1484 "Uncle Tom's Cabin—The Unread Classic",
1485 "Stowe's Representation of Slavery",
1486 "Freedom and Art in Uncle Tom's Cabin",
1487 "Emily Dickinson—In and Out of Nature",
1488 "Dickinson's Poetry—Language and Consciousness",
1489 "Dickinson—Devotee of Death",
1490 "Dickinson—\"Amherst's Madame de Sade\"",
1491 "Dickinson's Legacy",
1492 "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer—American Paradise Regained",
1493 "Huckleberry Finn—The Banned Classic",
1494 "Huckleberry Finn—A Child's Voice, a Child's Vision",
1495 "Huckleberry Finn, American Orphan",
1496 "Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson—Black and White Charade",
1497 "Henry James and the Novel of Perception",
1498 "The Turn of the Screw—Do You Believe in Ghosts?",
1499 "Turning the Screw of Interpretation",
1500 "Stephen Crane and the Literature of War",
1501 "The Red Badge of Courage—Brave New World",
1502 "Stephen Crane—Scientist of Human Behavior",
1503 "Charlotte Perkins Gilman—War Against Patriarchy",
1504 "“The Yellow Wallpaper”—Descent into Hell or Free at Last?",
1505 "Robert Frost and the Spirit of New England",
1506 "Robert Frost—“At Home in the Metaphor”",
1507 "Robert Frost and the Fruits of the Earth",
1508 "T.S. Eliot—Unloved Modern Classic",
1509 "T.S. Eliot—“The Waste Land” and Beyond",
1510 "F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby—American Romance",
1511 "The Great Gatsby—A Story of Lost Illusions?",
1512 "Fitzgerald's Triumph—Writing the American Dream",
1513 "Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises—Novel of the Lost Generation",
1514 "The Sun Also Rises—Spiritual Quest",
1515 "Ernest Hemingway—Wordsmith",
1516 "Hemingway's The Garden of Eden—Female Desire Unleashed",
1517 "The Garden of Eden—Combat Zone",
1518 "William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury—The Idiot's Tale",
1519 "The Sound and the Fury—Failed Rites of Passage",
1520 "The Sound and the Fury—Signifying Nothing?",
1521 "Absalom, Absalom!—Civil War Epic",
1522 "Absalom, Absalom!—The Language of Love",
1523 "Absalom, Absalom!—The Overpass to Love",
1524 "The Grapes of Wrath—American Saga",
1525 "John Steinbeck—Poet of the Little Man",
1526 "The Grapes of Wrath—Reconceiving Self and Family",
1527 "Invisible Man—Black Bildungsroman",
1528 "Invisible Man—Reconceiving History and Race",
1529 "Invisible Man—“What Did I Do, to Be So Black and Blue?”",
1530 "Eugene O'Neill—Great God of American Theater",
1531 "Long Day's Journey Into Night—There's No Place Like Home",
1532 "Tennessee Williams—Managing Libido",
1533 "A Streetcar Named Desire—The Death of Romance",
1534 "Death of a Salesman—Death of an Ethos?",
1535 "Death of a Salesman—Tragedy of the American Dream",
1536 "Toni Morrison's Beloved—Dismembering and Remembering",
1537 "Beloved—A Story of “Thick Love”",
1538 "Beloved—Morrison's Writing of the Body",
1539 "Conclusion to Classics of American Literature"
1540 ],
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1544 "professor" : "Professor John Sutherland, Ph.D.",
1545 "title" : "Classics of British Literature",
1546 "description" : "Few nations offer a literary legacy as impressive as that of Great Britain.",
1547 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/2/4/2400---packaging_flat_4.1551363057.jpg",
1548 "lectures" : [
1549 "Anglo-Saxon Roots—Pessimism and Comradeship",
1550 "Chaucer—Social Diversity",
1551 "Chaucer—A Man of Unusual Cultivation",
1552 "Spenser—The Faerie Queene",
1553 "Early Drama—Low Comedy and Religion",
1554 "Marlowe—Controversy and Danger",
1555 "Shakespeare the Man—The Road to the Globe",
1556 "Shakespeare—The Mature Years",
1557 "Shakespeare's Rivals—Jonson and Webster",
1558 "The King James Bible—English Most Elegant",
1559 "The Metaphysicals—Conceptual Daring",
1560 "Paradise Lost—A New Language for Poetry",
1561 "Turmoil Makes for Good Literature",
1562 "The Augustans—Order, Decorum, and Wit",
1563 "Swift—Anger and Satire",
1564 "Johnson—Bringing Order to the Language",
1565 "Defoe—Crusoe and the Rise of Capitalism",
1566 "Behn—Emancipation in the Restoration",
1567 "The Golden Age of Fiction",
1568 "Gibbon—Window into 18th-Century England",
1569 "Equiano—The Inhumanity of Slavery",
1570 "Women Poets—The Minor Voice",
1571 "Wollstonecraft—\"First of a New Genus\"",
1572 "Blake—Mythic Universes and Poetry",
1573 "Scott and Burns—The Voices of Scotland",
1574 "Lyrical Ballads—Collaborative Creation",
1575 "Mad, Bad Byron",
1576 "Keats—Literary Gold",
1577 "Frankenstein—A Gothic Masterpiece",
1578 "Miss Austen and Mrs. Radcliffe",
1579 "Pride and Prejudice—Moral Fiction",
1580 "Dickens—Writer with a Mission",
1581 "The 1840s—Growth of the Realistic Novel",
1582 "Wuthering Heights—Emily's Masterwork",
1583 "Jane Eyre and the Other Brontë",
1584 "Voices of Victorian Poetry",
1585 "Eliot—Fiction and Moral Reflection",
1586 "Hardy—Life at Its Worst",
1587 "The British Bestseller—An Overview",
1588 "Heart of Darkness—Heart of the Empire?",
1589 "Wilde—Celebrity Author",
1590 "Shaw and Pygmalion",
1591 "Joyce and Yeats—Giants of Irish Literature",
1592 "Great War, Great Poetry",
1593 "Bloomsbury and the Bloomsberries",
1594 "20th-Century English Poetry—Two Traditions",
1595 "British Fiction from James to Rushdie",
1596 "New Theatre, New Literary Worlds"
1597 ],
1598 "id" : 2400,
1599 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/classics-of-british-literature.html"
1600}{
1601 "professor" : "Professor Irwin Weil, Ph.D.",
1602 "title" : "Classics of Russian Literature",
1603 "description" : "Russian literature famously probes the depths of the human soul. These 36 half-hour lectures delve into this extraordinary body of work under the guidance of Professor Irwin Weil of Northwestern University, an award-winning teacher at Northwestern University and a legend among educators in the United States and Russia.",
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1605 "lectures" : [
1606 "Origins of Russian Literature",
1607 "The Church and the Folk in Old Kiev",
1608 "Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, 1799–1837",
1609 "Exile, Rustic Seclusion, and Onegin",
1610 "December’s Uprising and Two Poets Meet",
1611 "A Poet Contrasts Talent versus Mediocrity",
1612 "St. Petersburg Glorified and Death Embraced",
1613 "Nikolai Vasil’evich Gogol’, 1809–1852",
1614 "Russian Grotesque—Overcoats to Dead Souls",
1615 "Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, 1821–1881",
1616 "Near Mortality, Prison, and an Underground",
1617 "Second Wife and a Great Crime Novel Begins",
1618 "Inside the Troubled Mind of a Criminal",
1619 "The Generation of the Karamazovs",
1620 "The Novelistic Presence of Christ and Satan",
1621 "Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, 1828–1910",
1622 "Tale of Two Cities and a Country Home",
1623 "Family Life Meets Military Life",
1624 "Vengeance Is Mine, Saith the Lord",
1625 "Family Life Makes a Comeback",
1626 "Tolstoy the Preacher",
1627 "Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, 1818–1883",
1628 "The Stresses between Two Generations",
1629 "Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, 1860–1904",
1630 "M. Gorky (Aleksei M. Peshkov), 1868–1936",
1631 "Literature and Revolution",
1632 "The Tribune—Vladimir Maiakovsky, 1893–1930",
1633 "The Revolution Makes a U-Turn",
1634 "Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, 1905–1984",
1635 "Revolutions and Civil War",
1636 "Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko, 1895–1958",
1637 "Among the Godless—Religion and Family Life",
1638 "Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, 1890–1960",
1639 "The Poet In and Beyond Society",
1640 "Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, Born 1918",
1641 "The Many Colors of Russian Literature"
1642 ],
1643 "id" : 2830,
1644 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/classics-of-russian-literature.html"
1645}{
1646 "professor" : "Professor Charles Kimball, Th.D.",
1647 "title" : "Comparative Religion",
1648 "description" : "What, exactly, is religion? And why does one religious tradition often differ so markedly from another, even when you might not expect it to? Why, for example, are the Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—despite their common source—often so different? And what kinds of factors separate the beliefs of a Hindu or Buddhist not only from those held by Jews, Christians, or Muslims, or by each other, but also from many who identify themselves as fellow Hindus or Buddhists?",
1649 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/6/1/6172---packaging_flat_4.1551362738.jpg",
1650 "lectures" : [
1651 "Comparative Religion—Who, What, Why, How",
1652 "Exploring Similarities and Differences",
1653 "The Sacred, the Holy, and the Profane",
1654 "Sacred Time, Sacred Space, Sacred Objects",
1655 "Sacred People—Prophets, Sages, Saviors",
1656 "Sacred People—Clergy, Monastics, Shamans",
1657 "Sacred Signs, Analogues, and Sacraments",
1658 "Creation Myths and Sacred Stories",
1659 "From Sacred Stories and Letters to Doctrine",
1660 "Sacred Texts—The Bible and the Qur'an",
1661 "Sacred Texts for Hindus and Buddhists",
1662 "Polytheism, Dualism, Monism, and Monotheism",
1663 "From Birth to Death—Religious Rituals",
1664 "Daily, Weekly, Annual Religious Rituals",
1665 "Ritual Sacrifice in the World's Religions",
1666 "The Human Predicament—How to Overcome It",
1667 "The Problems of Sin and Forgetfulness",
1668 "Breaking through the Illusion of Reality",
1669 "The Goals of Religious Life",
1670 "The Way of Faith and the Way of Devotion",
1671 "The Way of Action and the Way of Meditation",
1672 "The Way of the Mystics",
1673 "The Evolution of Religious Institutions",
1674 "Religious Diversity in the 21st Century"
1675 ],
1676 "id" : 6172,
1677 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/comparative-religion.html"
1678}{
1679 "professor" : "Professor Robert Greenberg, Ph.D.",
1680 "title" : "Concert Masterworks",
1681 "description" : "Have you ever wondered what goes through a composer's mind during those magical weeks and months when a musical composition—something meant to become a listening experience—is being notated on paper? Have you tried to imagine the creative process that boils inside geniuses like Mozart, Beethoven, Dvorák, Strauss, Brahms, Mendelssohn, or Liszt? Or within any composer?",
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1683 "lectures" : [
1684 "Mozart—Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, I",
1685 "Mozart—Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, II",
1686 "Mozart—Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, III",
1687 "Mozart—Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, IV",
1688 "Beethoven—Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, I",
1689 "Beethoven—Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, II",
1690 "Beethoven—Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, III",
1691 "Beethoven—Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, IV",
1692 "Dvorák—Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, I",
1693 "Dvorák—Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, II",
1694 "Dvorák—Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, III",
1695 "Dvorák—Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, IV",
1696 "Strauss—Death and Transfiguration, I",
1697 "Strauss—Death and Transfiguration, II",
1698 "Strauss—Death and Transfiguration, III",
1699 "Strauss—Death and Transfiguration, IV",
1700 "Beethoven—Violin Concerto in D Major, I",
1701 "Beethoven—Violin Concerto in D Major, II",
1702 "Beethoven—Violin Concerto in D Major, III",
1703 "Beethoven—Violin Concerto in D Major, IV",
1704 "Brahms—Violin Concerto in D Major, I",
1705 "Brahms—Violin Concerto in D Major, II",
1706 "Brahms—Violin Concerto in D Major, III",
1707 "Brahms—Violin Concerto in D Major, IV",
1708 "Mendelssohn—Incidental Music and Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream, I",
1709 "Mendelssohn—Incidental Music and Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream, II",
1710 "Mendelssohn—Incidental Music and Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream, III",
1711 "Mendelssohn—Incidental Music and Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream, IV",
1712 "Liszt—Totentanz, I",
1713 "Liszt—Totentanz, II",
1714 "Liszt—Totentanz, III",
1715 "Liszt—Totentanz, IV"
1716 ],
1717 "id" : 710,
1718 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/concert-masterworks.html"
1719}{
1720 "professor" : "Professor Marshall C. Eakin, Ph.D.",
1721 "title" : "Conquest of the Americas",
1722 "description" : "Why was Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas in 1492 arguably the most important event in the history of the world? Professor Marshall C. Eakin of Vanderbilt University argues that it gave birth to the distinct identity of the Americas today by creating a collision between three distinct peoples and cultures: European, African, and Native American.",
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1724 "lectures" : [
1725 "Three Peoples Collide",
1726 "The Native Americans",
1727 "Mayas, Aztecs, and Incas",
1728 "Europeans and Africans",
1729 "European Overseas Expansion",
1730 "Christopher Columbus—Path to Conquest",
1731 "Stepping Stones—The Conquest of the Caribbean",
1732 "The Rise of Hernán Cortés",
1733 "The Fall of Montezuma",
1734 "Conquistadors and Incas",
1735 "The Frontiers of Empire",
1736 "Portuguese Brazil—The King's Plantation",
1737 "The Atlantic Slave Trade",
1738 "Haciendas and Plantations",
1739 "American Silver and Spanish Galleons",
1740 "The Sword and the Cross",
1741 "New Peoples, New Religions",
1742 "Late Arrivals—The English in North America",
1743 "Conquest by Dispossession",
1744 "Late Arrivals—The French in the Americas",
1745 "Pirates of the Caribbean",
1746 "Clash of Cultures—Victors and Vanquished",
1747 "The Rise of “American” Identities",
1748 "The Americas—Collisions and Convergence"
1749 ],
1750 "id" : 888,
1751 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/conquest-of-the-americas.html"
1752}{
1753 "professor" : "Professor Daniel N. Robinson, Ph.D.",
1754 "title" : "Consciousness and Its Implications",
1755 "description" : "It's as essential to human existence as water is to a fish. Every night we surrender it gratefully, only to get it back in the morning. We recognize that we have it, but we can never be sure anyone else does. Consciousness, this unique and perplexing mental state, has been the subject of debate for philosophers and scientists for millennia. And while it is widely agreed within contemporary philosophy that consciousness is a problem whose solutions are likely to determine the fate of any number of other problems, there is no settled position on the ultimate nature of consciousness.",
1756 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/4/1/4168---packaging_flat_4.1551362822.jpg",
1757 "lectures" : [
1758 "Zombies",
1759 "Self-Consciousness",
1760 "The \"Problem\" of Consciousness",
1761 "The Explanatory Gap",
1762 "Mental Causation",
1763 "Other Minds",
1764 "Physicalism Refined",
1765 "Consciousness and Physics",
1766 "Qualia and the \"Mary\" Problem",
1767 "Do Computers Play Chess?",
1768 "Autism, Obsession, and Compulsion",
1769 "Consciousness and the End of Mental Life"
1770 ],
1771 "id" : 4168,
1772 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/consciousness-and-its-implications.html"
1773}{
1774 "professor" : "Professor Joseph F. Kobylka, Ph.D.",
1775 "title" : "Cycles of American Political Thought",
1776 "description" : "America is often described as a nation of doers. Its folk heroes are men and women of action, like Daniel Boone and Annie Oakley, who subdued an untamed wilderness on the way to forging a great nation. But is that the whole story? Is American history really just a tale of dynamic movers and shakers who left philosophizing to their European counterparts?",
1777 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/4/8/4820---packaging_flat_4.1551376777.jpg",
1778 "lectures" : [
1779 "America—The Philosophical Experiment",
1780 "Historical Baggage",
1781 "Theoretical Baggage",
1782 "A Puritan Beginning",
1783 "Expansion and Individualism",
1784 "The Revolutionary Context",
1785 "The Road to the Declaration of Independence",
1786 "A \"Natural\" Revolutionary—Thomas Paine",
1787 "The Unconscious Dialectic of Crèvecoeur",
1788 "John Adams—\"Constitutionalist\"",
1789 "A Political Constitution",
1790 "A Philosophical Constitution—Faction",
1791 "A Philosophical Constitution—Structure",
1792 "A Philosophical Constitution—Interpretation",
1793 "Disorganized Losers—The Anti-Federalists",
1794 "The \"Genius\" of Thomas Jefferson",
1795 "Jacksonian Democracy—The \"People\" Extended",
1796 "Iconoclastic Individualism—Thoreau",
1797 "Inclusionist Stirrings—Douglass and Stanton",
1798 "The Organic Socialism of Brownson",
1799 "American Feudalism—The Vision of Fitzhugh",
1800 "Constitutionalizing the Slave Class",
1801 "Lincoln's Reconstitution of America",
1802 "Equality in the Law and in Practice",
1803 "Social Darwinism and Economic Laissez-Faire",
1804 "Looking Backward, Looking Forward",
1805 "Teddy Roosevelt and Progressivism",
1806 "Supreme Court and Laissez-Faire",
1807 "The Women's Movement and the 19th Amendment",
1808 "Eugene V. Debs and Working-Class Socialism",
1809 "Hamiltonian Means for Jeffersonian Ends",
1810 "FDR, the New Deal, and the Supreme Court",
1811 "The Racial Revolution",
1812 "The New Egalitarianism and Freedom",
1813 "The Reagan Revolution",
1814 "Cycles of American Political Conversations"
1815 ],
1816 "id" : 4820,
1817 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/cycles-of-american-political-thought.html"
1818}{
1819 "professor" : "Taught By Multiple Professors",
1820 "title" : "Dante's Divine Comedy",
1821 "description" : "Two gifted teachers share the fruit of two lifetimes' worth of historical and literary expertise in this introduction to one of the greatest works ever written. One of the most profound and satisfying of all poems, the Divine Comedy (or Commedia) of Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) is a book for life.",
1822 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/2/8/287---packaging_flat.1551362990.jpg",
1823 "lectures" : [
1824 "Reading the Poem—Issues and Editions",
1825 "A Poet and His City—Dante's Florence",
1826 "Literary Antecedents, I",
1827 "Literary Antecedents, II",
1828 "“Abandon Every Hope, All You Who Enter”",
1829 "The Never-Ending Storm",
1830 "Heretics",
1831 "The Seventh Circle—The Violent",
1832 "The Sin of Simony",
1833 "The False Counselors",
1834 "The Ultimate Evil",
1835 "The Seven-Story Mountain",
1836 "Purgatory's Waiting Room",
1837 "The Sin of Pride",
1838 "The Vision to Freedom",
1839 "Homage to Virgil",
1840 "Dante's New Guide",
1841 "Ascending the Spheres",
1842 "An Emperor Speaks",
1843 "The Circle of the Sun—Saints and Sages",
1844 "A Mission Revealed—Encounter with an Ancestor",
1845 "Can a Pagan Be Saved?",
1846 "Faith, Hope, Love, and the Mystic Empyrean",
1847 "\"In My End Is My Beginning\""
1848 ],
1849 "id" : 287,
1850 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/dante-s-divine-comedy.html"
1851}{
1852 "professor" : "Professor Frederick Gregory, Ph.D.",
1853 "title" : "Darwinian Revolution",
1854 "description" : "Published 150 years ago, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species—the text that introduced the world to natural selection—is among a handful of books that have changed the world.",
1855 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/1/5/1527---packaging_flat_4.1551364671.jpg",
1856 "lectures" : [
1857 "The Meaning of Evolution",
1858 "The Way It Used to Be",
1859 "Theories of Evolution in the 18th Century",
1860 "Fossils and Catastrophism",
1861 "Theories of Evolution Just before Darwin",
1862 "Why Evolution Was Rejected before Darwin",
1863 "Darwin's Conversion to Evolution",
1864 "What's in On the Origin of Species?",
1865 "How Origin Fared among Scientists",
1866 "The Religious Reaction to Darwinism",
1867 "The Social Implications of Evolution",
1868 "Evolution and Heredity",
1869 "A Nadir for Natural Selection",
1870 "Groundwork for Recovery",
1871 "Human Evolution",
1872 "The Scopes Trial",
1873 "Lamarckian Inheritance on Stage",
1874 "Forging an Evolutionary Synthesis",
1875 "Evolution and Molecular Biology",
1876 "The Rise of Biblical Creationism",
1877 "Tinkering with Evolutionary Theory",
1878 "The Heritage of Eugenics",
1879 "Intelligent Design",
1880 "Adding Things Up"
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1885 "professor" : "Professor Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D.",
1886 "title" : "Doctors: The History of Scientific Medicine Revealed Through Biography",
1887 "description" : "In today's era of modern Western medicine, organ transplants are routine, and daily headlines about the mysteries of DNA and the human genome promise that the secrets of life itself are tantalizingly within our reach. Yet to reach this point took thousands of years.",
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1890 "Hippocrates and the Origins of Western Medicine",
1891 "The Paradox of Galen",
1892 "Vesalius and the Renaissance of Medicine",
1893 "Harvey, Discoverer of the Circulation",
1894 "Morgagni and the Anatomy of Disease",
1895 "Hunter, the Surgeon as Scientist",
1896 "Laennec and the Invention of the Stethoscope",
1897 "Morton and the Origins of Anesthesia",
1898 "Virchow and the Cellular Origins of Disease",
1899 "Lister and the Germ Theory",
1900 "Halsted and American Medical Education",
1901 "Taussig and the Development of Cardiac Surgery"
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1906 "professor" : "Professor Luke Timothy Johnson, Ph.D.",
1907 "title" : "Early Christianity: The Experience of the Divine",
1908 "description" : "After 2,000 years, Christianity is the world's largest religion and continues to prosper and grow. What accounts for its continued popularity? Simply put, Christianity is powerful and persuasive as a religion. It offers a convincing personal experience of ultimate, or \"divine,\" power.",
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1910 "lectures" : [
1911 "Christianity as a Religion",
1912 "What Is a Religion?",
1913 "The Role of Religious Experience",
1914 "Sourcing Christianity",
1915 "The Imperial Context",
1916 "Greco-Roman Polytheism",
1917 "Greco-Roman Religious Experience",
1918 "The Symbolic World of Torah",
1919 "Palestinian Judaism in the Greco-Roman World",
1920 "Judaism in the Hellenistic Diaspora",
1921 "Jesus and the Gospels",
1922 "The Resurrection Experience",
1923 "Movement Meets World—Five Key Transitions",
1924 "Ritual Imprinting and Politics of Perfection",
1925 "Glossolalia and the Embarrassments of Experience",
1926 "Meals Are Where the Magic Is",
1927 "Healing and Salvation",
1928 "Access to Power—Visions and Prayer",
1929 "The Holy Community",
1930 "The Community’s Worship",
1931 "The Transforming Word of Scripture",
1932 "Teachers and Creeds",
1933 "The Power of the Saints",
1934 "Christianities Popular and Real"
1935 ],
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1938}{
1939 "professor" : "Professor Philip Daileader, Ph.D.",
1940 "title" : "Early Middle Ages",
1941 "description" : "We often call them the \"Dark Ages,\" the era which spanned the decline and fall of Rome's western empire and lingered for centuries, a time when the Ancient World was ending and Europe had seemingly vanished into ignorance and shadow, its literacy and urban life declining, its isolation from the rest of the world increasing.",
1942 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/8/2/8267---packaging_flat_4.1551362573.jpg",
1943 "lectures" : [
1944 "Long Shadows and the Dark Ages",
1945 "Diocletian and the Crises of the Third Century",
1946 "Constantine the Great—Christian Emperor",
1947 "Pagans and Christians in the Fourth Century",
1948 "Athletes of God",
1949 "Augustine, Part One",
1950 "Augustine, Part Two",
1951 "Barbarians at the Gate",
1952 "Franks and Goths",
1953 "Arthur’s England",
1954 "Justinian and the Byzantine Empire",
1955 "The House of Islam",
1956 "Rise of the Carolingians",
1957 "Charlemagne",
1958 "Carolingian Christianity",
1959 "The Carolingian Renaissance",
1960 "Fury of the Northmen",
1961 "Collapse of the Carolingian Empire",
1962 "The Birth of France and Germany",
1963 "England in the Age of Alfred",
1964 "Al-Andalus—Islamic Spain",
1965 "Carolingian Europe—Gateway to the Middle Ages",
1966 "Family Life—How Then Became Now",
1967 "Long Shadows and the Dark Ages Revisited"
1968 ],
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1970 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/early-middle-ages.html"
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1972 "professor" : "Professor Richard Wolfson, Ph.D.",
1973 "title" : "Earth's Changing Climate",
1974 "description" : "In 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that \"warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global mean sea level.\" Representing a consensus of hundreds of scientists, the report went on to note that human activity is \"very likely\" the cause.",
1975 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/1/2/1219---packaging_flat_4.1551367091.jpg",
1976 "lectures" : [
1977 "Is Earth Warming?",
1978 "Butterflies, Glaciers, and Hurricanes",
1979 "Ice Ages and Beyond",
1980 "In the Greenhouse",
1981 "A Tale of Three Planets",
1982 "Global Recycling",
1983 "The Human Factor",
1984 "Computing the Future",
1985 "Impacts of Climate Change",
1986 "Energy and Climate",
1987 "Energy—Resources and Alternatives",
1988 "Sustainable Futures?"
1989 ],
1990 "id" : 1219,
1991 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/earth-s-changing-climate.html"
1992}{
1993 "professor" : "Professor Richard Wolfson, Ph.D.",
1994 "title" : "Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution: Modern Physics for Non-Scientists, 2nd Edition",
1995 "description" : "\"It doesn't take an Einstein to understand modern physics,\" says Professor Richard Wolfson at the outset of this course on what may be the most important subject in the universe.",
1996 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/1/5/153---packaging_flat_5.1551363417.jpg",
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1998 "Time Travel, Tunneling, Tennis, and Tea",
1999 "Heaven and Earth, Place and Motion",
2000 "The Clockwork Universe",
2001 "Let There Be Light!",
2002 "Speed c Relative to What?",
2003 "Earth and the Ether—A Crisis in Physics",
2004 "Einstein to the Rescue",
2005 "Uncommon Sense—Stretching Time",
2006 "Muons and Time-Traveling Twins",
2007 "Escaping Contradiction—Simultaneity Is Relative",
2008 "Faster than Light? Past, Future, and Elsewhere",
2009 "What about E=mc² and Is Everything Relative?",
2010 "A Problem of Gravity",
2011 "Curved Spacetime",
2012 "Black Holes",
2013 "Into the Heart of Matter",
2014 "Enter the Quantum",
2015 "Wave or Particle?",
2016 "Quantum Uncertainty—Farewell to Determinism",
2017 "Particle or Wave?",
2018 "Quantum Weirdness and Schrödinger's Cat",
2019 "The Particle Zoo",
2020 "Cosmic Connections",
2021 "Toward a Theory of Everything"
2022 ],
2023 "id" : 153,
2024 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/einstein-s-relativity-and-the-quantum-revolution-modern-physics-for-non-scientists-2nd-edition.html"
2025}{
2026 "professor" : "Professor Bill Messenger, M.A.",
2027 "title" : "Elements of Jazz: From Cakewalks to Fusion",
2028 "description" : "The uniquely American music and art form, jazz, is one of America's great contributions to world culture. Now you can learn the basics of jazz and its history in a course as free-flowing and original as jazz itself. Taught by Professor Bill Messenger of the Peabody Institute, the lectures in this course are a must for music lovers. They will have you reaching deep into your own music collection and going straight out to a music store to add to it.",
2029 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/7/2/728---packaging_flat_4.1551363333.jpg",
2030 "lectures" : [
2031 "Plantation Beginnings",
2032 "The Rise and Fall of Ragtime",
2033 "The Jazz Age",
2034 "Blues",
2035 "The Swing Era",
2036 "Boogie, Big Band Blues, and Bop",
2037 "Modern Jazz",
2038 "The ABC's of Jazz Improvisation"
2039 ],
2040 "id" : 728,
2041 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/elements-of-jazz-from-cakewalks-to-fusion.html"
2042}{
2043 "professor" : "Professor Ashton Nichols, Ph.D.",
2044 "title" : "Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist Movement",
2045 "description" : "Where did the America we know today—so different in its fundamental views about almost every aspect of life as to be unrecognizable to our countrymen of two centuries ago—really come from?",
2046 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/2/5/2598---packaging_flat_4.1551363931.jpg",
2047 "lectures" : [
2048 "Emerson, Thoreau, and Transcendentalism",
2049 "The Roots of American Transcendentalism",
2050 "Emerson and the Idea of America",
2051 "Emerson and Transcendentalism",
2052 "Emerson’s Influence",
2053 "Thoreau—An American Original",
2054 "Thoreau at Walden and Beyond",
2055 "Thoreau's Politics",
2056 "William Ellery Channing and Unitarianism",
2057 "Theodore Parker—Social Reform in the Pulpit",
2058 "Amos Bronson Alcott",
2059 "Louisa May Alcott",
2060 "Margaret Fuller and Rights for Women",
2061 "Transcendental Women",
2062 "Moncure Conway—Southern Transcendentalist",
2063 "Transcendental Eccentrics",
2064 "Transcendental Utopias—Living Experiments",
2065 "Transcendentalism and Education",
2066 "Thoreau, Abolition, and John Brown",
2067 "Frederick Douglass",
2068 "Emily Dickinson",
2069 "Walt Whitman",
2070 "Transcendentalism's 19th-Century Legacy",
2071 "The Legacy in the 20th Century and Beyond"
2072 ],
2073 "id" : 2598,
2074 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/emerson-thoreau-and-the-transcendentalist-movement.html"
2075}{
2076 "professor" : "Professor Garrett G. Fagan, Ph.D.",
2077 "title" : "Emperors of Rome",
2078 "description" : "They are said to be the most powerful rulers who ever lived—a checkered mix of the wise, the brutal, and the unhinged. For more than five centuries they presided over a multi-ethnic empire that was nearly always at war, if not with neighbors then with rebellious factions within the empire itself. The full scope of their powers was not systematized in constitutional law, a fact that tempted many of them to overreach disastrously; and the lack of clear rules of succession meant that most of them died violently.",
2079 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/3/4/3410---packaging_flat_4.1551364398.jpg",
2080 "lectures" : [
2081 "The Shape of Roman Imperial History",
2082 "The Roman Republic",
2083 "Caesar and the Suicide of the Republic",
2084 "The First Emperor—Augustus",
2085 "The Powers of Augustus",
2086 "Succession Woes",
2087 "Livia Drusilla, Empress of Rome",
2088 "The Early Years of Tiberius",
2089 "The Would-Be Emperor—Sejanus",
2090 "The Mad Emperor? Caligula",
2091 "Killing Caligula, Finding Claudius",
2092 "The Odd Couple—Claudius and Messalina",
2093 "Power and Poison—Agrippina and Claudius",
2094 "Artist and Assassin—Nero",
2095 "The Trouble with Christians",
2096 "Dynasty's End—The Fall of Nero",
2097 "The Long Year, A.D. 69",
2098 "The First Flavian—Vespasian",
2099 "The Last Flavians—Titus and Domitian",
2100 "Pax Augusta—Nerva and Trajan",
2101 "Trajan in Rome and in the East",
2102 "The Eccentric Emperor—Hadrian",
2103 "Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Verus",
2104 "Marcus in the North and Commodus",
2105 "Civil War and Septimius Severus",
2106 "Caracalla and the Severan Dynasty",
2107 "Emperor and City",
2108 "Emperor and Empire",
2109 "Emperor and Elite",
2110 "Emperor and People",
2111 "Emperor and Soldier",
2112 "Chaos",
2113 "Aurelian, Diocletian, and the Tetrarchy",
2114 "Constantine—Rise to Power",
2115 "The Christian Emperor—Constantine",
2116 "Reflections on the Emperors of Rome"
2117 ],
2118 "id" : 3410,
2119 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/emperors-of-rome.html"
2120}{
2121 "professor" : "Professor Leo Damrosch, Ph.D.",
2122 "title" : "Enlightenment Invention of the Modern Self",
2123 "description" : "You are a product of the Enlightenment. In fact, the philosophy behind so much that has created the modern concept of Self—politics, economics, psychology, science and technology, education, art—was invented as recently as the Enlightenment of the 18th century. In The Enlightenment Invention of the Modern Self, literary scholar Leo Damrosch of Harvard University considers the time when ideas about the self were first considered.",
2124 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/4/1/4117---packaging_flat_4.1551374032.jpg",
2125 "lectures" : [
2126 "Changing Ideas of the Self",
2127 "17th-Century Religious Versions of the Self",
2128 "17th-Century Secular Versions of the Self",
2129 "Lafayette, La Princesse de Clèves, I",
2130 "La Princesse de Clèves, II",
2131 "British Empiricism and the Self, I",
2132 "British Empiricism and the Self, II",
2133 "Voltaire, Candide",
2134 "Voltaire, Johnson, Gibbon-Some Lives",
2135 "Boswell, The London Journal, I",
2136 "The London Journal, II",
2137 "Diderot's Dialogues",
2138 "Diderot, Jacques the Fatalist, I",
2139 "Jacques the Fatalist, II",
2140 "Rousseau, Inequality and Social Contract",
2141 "Rousseau, The Confessions, I",
2142 "The Confessions, II",
2143 "Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker",
2144 "Franklin, Autobiography",
2145 "Franklin and Adam Smith",
2146 "Laclos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, I",
2147 "Les Liaisons Dangereuses, II",
2148 "Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience",
2149 "Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
2150 ],
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2152 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/enlightenment-invention-of-the-modern-self.html"
2153}{
2154 "professor" : "Professor Kenneth W. Harl, Ph.D.",
2155 "title" : "The Era of the Crusades",
2156 "description" : "The Crusades have been hailed as the driving force that brought Western Europe out of the Middle Ages—and condemned as the beginning of European imperialism in the Muslim Near East. But what really were the Crusades? What were the forces that led to one of history's most protracted and legendary periods of conflict? How did they affect the three great civilizations that participated in them? And, ultimately, why did they end and what did they accomplish?",
2157 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/3/9/390---packaging_flat_4.1551366439.jpg",
2158 "lectures" : [
2159 "The Heirs of Rome",
2160 "Byzantine Orthodox Civilization",
2161 "Byzantine Zenith in the Macedonian Age",
2162 "The Failure of the Heirs of Basil II",
2163 "Abbasid Baghdad and Fatimid Egypt",
2164 "The Coming of the Seljuk Turks",
2165 "The Recovery of Western Europe",
2166 "Kings and Princes of Western Europe",
2167 "Warfare in Western Europe",
2168 "The Papacy and Religious Reform",
2169 "Piety and Pilgrimage",
2170 "Christian Offensives in Spain and Sicily",
2171 "Alexius I and the First Crusade",
2172 "From Clermont to Jerusalem",
2173 "Conquest and Defense of Outremer",
2174 "Frankish Settlement of Outremer",
2175 "Comnenian Emperors and Crusader Princes",
2176 "The Second Crusade",
2177 "The Empire at Bay",
2178 "The Rise of Saladin",
2179 "Byzantine Recovery under the Comnenians",
2180 "A Renaissance of Byzantine Letters and Arts",
2181 "Trade and Currency in the Mediterranean",
2182 "Cultural Exchange in Gothic Europe",
2183 "The Horns of Hattin",
2184 "The Third Crusade",
2185 "From Jerusalem to Constantinople",
2186 "The Sack of Constantinople",
2187 "The World of Frankish Greece",
2188 "Splinter Empires and Orthodox Princes",
2189 "Ayyubid Egypt and Seljuk Anatolia",
2190 "Crusader Cyprus and the Levant",
2191 "Venice and Genoa",
2192 "The Mongols and the Legend of Prester John",
2193 "The Royal Crusaders",
2194 "The Passing of the Crusades"
2195 ],
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2197 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/era-of-the-crusades.html"
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2199 "professor" : "Father Joseph Koterski, S.J., Ph.D.",
2200 "title" : "Ethics of Aristotle",
2201 "description" : "What is happiness? What is moral excellence? How can you attain them? Can either be taught? For more than 2,000 years, thoughtful people have been turning to Aristotle (384–322 B.C.) to help them find answers to questions like these. In this meditation on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, an award-winning teacher shows you the clarity and ethical wisdom of one of humanity's greatest minds.",
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2203 "lectures" : [
2204 "The Philosopher of Common Sense",
2205 "What Is the Purpose of Life?",
2206 "What Is Moral Excellence?",
2207 "Courage and Moderation",
2208 "The Social Virtues",
2209 "Types of Justice",
2210 "The Intellectual Virtues",
2211 "Struggling to Do Right",
2212 "Friendship and the Right Life",
2213 "What Is Friendship?",
2214 "Pleasure and the Right Life",
2215 "Attaining True Happiness"
2216 ],
2217 "id" : 408,
2218 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/ethics-of-aristotle.html"
2219}{
2220 "professor" : "Professor Thomas Childers, Ph.D.",
2221 "title" : "Europe and Western Civilization in the Modern Age",
2222 "description" : "Consider the events explored, explained, and connected by this course.",
2223 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/8/2/820---packaging_flat_4.1551364543.jpg",
2224 "lectures" : [
2225 "Introduction—Europe in the \"Modern Age\"",
2226 "Social and Political Life Under the Ancien Regime",
2227 "Intellectual and Cultural Life—The Challenge of the Enlightenment",
2228 "The Origins of the French Revolution",
2229 "The Outbreak of the Revolution and the Monarchist Response",
2230 "The Terror and Its Aftermath",
2231 "The Rise of Napoleon—Heir of the Revolution or New Form of Tyranny?",
2232 "Napoleonic Europe—An Epoch of War",
2233 "The Restoration and Reactionary Conservatism",
2234 "The Challenge of Liberal Nationalism",
2235 "Liberal Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution—The English Experience",
2236 "The Social Impact of the Industrial Revolution",
2237 "The Revolution in France",
2238 "Revolution in Central Europe",
2239 "The Political Implications of the Revolution",
2240 "The Unification of Germany",
2241 "The Unification of Italy",
2242 "The New Imperialism",
2243 "Race, Religion, and Greed—Explaining European Expansion",
2244 "Marx and the Challenge of Socialism",
2245 "The Social Problem and the Crisis of Liberalism",
2246 "A New Conservatism—Anti-Modernism and the Origins of Fascism",
2247 "European Cultural and Intellectual Life",
2248 "Social Norms, Social Strains in the Belle Epoque",
2249 "The International System, 1871–1890",
2250 "The Breakdown of the International System and the Slide Toward War",
2251 "Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in the Multi-national Empires of Central and Eastern Europe",
2252 "The July Crisis and the Outbreak of War",
2253 "The War to End All Wars—The Experience of the Trenches",
2254 "The Treaty of Versailles and the Failed Peace",
2255 "The Bolshevik Revolution",
2256 "Civil War and the Establishment of the Soviet State",
2257 "The Soviet System Under Stalin",
2258 "Mussolini and the Emergence of Italian Fascism",
2259 "The Democracies in Crisis",
2260 "Hitler and the Rise of Nazism in Germany",
2261 "Totalitarianism—The Third Reich",
2262 "The Third Reich—Ideology and Domestic Policy",
2263 "Ideology and Hitler's Foreign Policy",
2264 "The Twenty-Year Crisis—The International System, 1919–1939",
2265 "The Coming of War, 1939",
2266 "The Blitzkrieg, 1940–1941",
2267 "The Holocaust",
2268 "The World at War",
2269 "The Origins of the Cold War",
2270 "The Division of Europe",
2271 "The Collapse of Communism",
2272 "Conclusion—Europe on the Eve of the 21st Century"
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2274 "id" : 820,
2275 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/europe-and-western-civilization-in-the-modern-age.html"
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2277 "professor" : "Professor Jonathan Steinberg, Ph.D.",
2278 "title" : "European History and European Lives: 1715 to 1914",
2279 "description" : "Thirty-five of the most influential people who lived during the 200 most difficult years in the history of the West form the subject of this dramatically different course. Who were these artists, writers, scientists, and leaders in the context of history? How and why did their lives shape our times and reflect their own?",
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2281 "lectures" : [
2282 "History as a \"Soft\" Science",
2283 "Augustus the Strong—Princely Consumption",
2284 "Robert Walpole—Politics of Corruption",
2285 "Frederick the Great—Absolute Absolutist",
2286 "Jean-Jacques Rousseau—A Modern Self",
2287 "Samuel Johnson—The \"Harmless Drudge\"",
2288 "Maria Theresa—Mother of the Empire",
2289 "David Hume—The Cheerful Skeptic",
2290 "C.P.E. Bach—Selling the Arts",
2291 "Catherine the Great—Russian Reformer",
2292 "Joseph II—The Rational Emperor",
2293 "Goethe—The Artist as Work of Art",
2294 "Adam Smith—The Wealth of Nations",
2295 "Marie Antoinette—Queen Beheaded",
2296 "Edmund Burke—The New Conservatism",
2297 "Robespierre—The Democrat as Terrorist",
2298 "Mary Wollstonecraft—The Rights of Women",
2299 "Napoleon—The Revolutionary Emperor",
2300 "Metternich—The Spider and the Web",
2301 "N.M. Rothschild—Financier to the World",
2302 "Goya—The Painter as Social Critic",
2303 "Giuseppe Mazzini—Idealist of the Nation",
2304 "George Eliot—A Scandalous Woman",
2305 "The Irish Starve—The Great Famine",
2306 "Napoleon III—The Empire of the Boulevards",
2307 "Pius IX—The Infallible Pope",
2308 "Richard Wagner—Revolution in Music",
2309 "Marx and Engels—The Perfect Collaboration",
2310 "Otto von Bismarck—Blood and Iron",
2311 "Charles Darwin—Origin of Species",
2312 "Queen Victoria—\"We are not amused\"",
2313 "Friedrich Krupp—The New Plutocracy",
2314 "Louis Pasteur—Modern Laboratory Science",
2315 "Count Leo Tolstoy—Lord and Serf",
2316 "Alfred Dreyfus—First Act in the Holocaust",
2317 "David Lloyd George—Champion of the Poor"
2318 ],
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2320 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/european-history-and-european-lives-1715-to-1914.html"
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2322 "professor" : "Professor Lloyd Kramer, Ph.D.",
2323 "title" : "European Thought and Culture in the 19th Century",
2324 "description" : "This course is an opportunity to explore the major thinkers and historic challenges that shaped the mind of Europe in the 19th century. Intellectual history emphasizes the exchanges of ideas and debates that went on among people from other places and times. But it also stresses the importance of a continuing dialogue between the present and the past.",
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2326 "lectures" : [
2327 "What is Intellectual History?",
2328 "The Scientific Origins of the Enlightenment",
2329 "The Emergence of the Modern Intellectual",
2330 "The Cultural Meaning of the French Revolution",
2331 "The New Conservatism in Post-Revolutionary Europe",
2332 "The New German Philosophy",
2333 "Hegel’s Philosophical Conception of History",
2334 "The New Liberalism",
2335 "The Literary Culture of Romanticism",
2336 "The Meaning of the “Romantic Hero”",
2337 "The Industrial Revolution and Classical Economics",
2338 "Early Critiques of Industrial Capitalism",
2339 "Hegelianism and the Young Marx",
2340 "Marx’s Social Critique",
2341 "Feminism in Nineteenth-Century Culture",
2342 "Women’s Rights in a Man’s World",
2343 "Tocqueville and Mill—Rethinking Liberal Theory",
2344 "Nationalisms and National Identities",
2345 "The Novel as Art and Social Criticism",
2346 "Science and Its Literary Critics",
2347 "Charles Darwin and the New Biology",
2348 "The Controversies of Social Darwinism",
2349 "The Heroic Critic in Mass Society",
2350 "Nietzsche’s Critique of European Culture"
2351 ],
2352 "id" : 4423,
2353 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/european-thought-and-culture-in-the-19th-century.html"
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2355 "professor" : "Professor Lloyd Kramer, Ph.D.",
2356 "title" : "European Thought and Culture in the 20th Century",
2357 "description" : "Who were the great thinkers of the 20th Century? They were poets and painters, novelists and scientists, philosophers and playwrights. Their ideas and debates decisively shaped 20th-century European culture and still define our world today. Now with this sequel to his series on European Thought and Culture in the 19th Century, Professor Lloyd Kramer introduces an amazing array of thinkers and writers, the key historical circumstances and challenges they faced, and the fascinating and subtle ways their works relate to one another and to the larger story of modern European culture.",
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2359 "lectures" : [
2360 "The Origins of 20th-Century European Thought",
2361 "Universities, Cities, and the Modern “Culture Industry”",
2362 "Naturalism in Fin-de-Siècle Literature",
2363 "The New Avant-Garde Literary Culture",
2364 "Rethinking the Scientific Tradition",
2365 "The Emergence of Modern Art",
2366 "Émile Durkheim and French Social Thought",
2367 "Max Weber and the New German Sociology",
2368 "The Great War and Cultural Pessimism",
2369 "Sigmund Freud and Psychoanalytic Theory",
2370 "Freud, Jung, and the Constraints of Civilized Life",
2371 "Poetry and Surrealism After the Great War",
2372 "The Modern Novel: Joyce and Woolf",
2373 "The Continental Novel: Proust, Kafka, Mann",
2374 "Language and Reality in Modern Philosophy",
2375 "Revisiting Marxism and Liberalism",
2376 "Responses to Nazism and the Holocaust",
2377 "Existential Philosophy",
2378 "Literature and Memory in Postwar Culture",
2379 "Redefining Modern Feminism",
2380 "History, Anthropology, and Structuralism",
2381 "Poststructuralist Thought: Foucault and Derrida",
2382 "European Postmodernism",
2383 "Changes and Traditions at Century’s End"
2384 ],
2385 "id" : 4427,
2386 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/european-thought-and-culture-in-the-20th-century.html"
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2388 "professor" : "Professor J. Rufus Fears, Ph.D.",
2389 "title" : "Famous Greeks",
2390 "description" : "One of the most instructive and intriguing ways to learn history is through biography. By pondering the lives of great individuals—people who leave deep marks on both their own times and distant posterity—you can chart broad currents of events while also studying virtue and vice, folly and wisdom, success and failure. Moreover, you can appreciate them in the real circumstances of their times.",
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2392 "lectures" : [
2393 "Theseus",
2394 "Achilles and Agamemnon",
2395 "Hector",
2396 "Odysseus",
2397 "Lycurgus",
2398 "Solon",
2399 "Croesus",
2400 "Xerxes",
2401 "Leonidas",
2402 "Themistocles",
2403 "Pausanias",
2404 "Pericles",
2405 "Anaxagoras, Phidias, and Aspasia",
2406 "Sophocles",
2407 "Thucydides",
2408 "Alcibiades",
2409 "Nicias",
2410 "Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War",
2411 "Lysander and Socrates",
2412 "The Trial of Socrates",
2413 "Xenophon, Plato and Philip",
2414 "Alexander the Great",
2415 "Pyrrhus",
2416 "Cleopatra"
2417 ],
2418 "id" : 337,
2419 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/famous-greeks.html"
2420}{
2421 "professor" : "Professor J. Rufus Fears, Ph.D.",
2422 "title" : "Famous Romans",
2423 "description" : "Like the authors who serve as sources for this course—Livy, Polybius, Suetonius, Tacitus, and above all, Plutarch—Professor J. Rufus Fears believes that individuals, not organizations or social movements, are the primary forces that make history. In this companion course to Famous Greeks, Professor Fears retells the lives of the remarkable individuals—the statesmen, thinkers, warriors, and writers—who shaped the history of the Roman Empire and, by extension, our own history and culture.",
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2425 "lectures" : [
2426 "Publius Cornelius Scipio",
2427 "Hannibal",
2428 "Gaius Flaminius",
2429 "Quintus Fabius Maximus",
2430 "Scipio Africanus the Elder",
2431 "Scipio the Younger",
2432 "Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus",
2433 "Crassus",
2434 "Gaius Julius Caesar",
2435 "Caesar and Vercingetorix",
2436 "Pompey the Great",
2437 "Cato the Younger",
2438 "Brutus and the Opposition to Caesar",
2439 "Cicero",
2440 "Augustus",
2441 "Vergil",
2442 "Claudius",
2443 "Nero",
2444 "Trajan",
2445 "Hadrian",
2446 "Epictetus",
2447 "Apuleius",
2448 "Plutarch, Suetonius, and Tacitus",
2449 "Marcus Aurelius"
2450 ],
2451 "id" : 349,
2452 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/famous-romans.html"
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2454 "professor" : "Professor Thomas F. X. Noble, Ph.D.",
2455 "title" : "Foundations of Western Civilization",
2456 "description" : "You can discover the essential nature, evolution, and perceptions of Western civilization from its humble beginnings in the great river valleys of Iraq and Egypt to the dawn of the modern world. With these 48 lectures on the people, places, ideas, and events that make up The Foundations of Western Civilization, award-winning scholar and teacher Thomas F. X. Noble of the University of Notre Dame invites you to explore the vast and rich territory of Western civilization.",
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2458 "lectures" : [
2459 "“Western,” “Civilization,” and “Foundations”",
2460 "History Begins at Sumer",
2461 "Egypt—The Gift of the Nile",
2462 "The Hebrews—Small States and Big Ideas",
2463 "A Succession of Empires",
2464 "Wide-Ruling Agamemnon",
2465 "Dark Age and Archaic Greece",
2466 "The Greek Polis—Sparta",
2467 "The Greek Polis—Athens",
2468 "Civic Culture—Architecture and Drama",
2469 "The Birth of History",
2470 "From Greek Religion to Socratic Philosophy",
2471 "Plato and Aristotle",
2472 "The Failure of the Polis and the Rise of Alexander",
2473 "The Hellenistic World",
2474 "The Rise of Rome",
2475 "The Roman Republic—Government and Politics",
2476 "Roman Imperialism",
2477 "The Culture of the Roman Republic",
2478 "Rome—From Republic to Empire",
2479 "The Pax Romana",
2480 "Rome's Golden and Silver Ages",
2481 "Jesus and the New Testament",
2482 "The Emergence of a Christian Church",
2483 "Late Antiquity—Crisis and Response",
2484 "Barbarians and Emperors",
2485 "The Emergence of the Catholic Church",
2486 "Christian Culture in Late Antiquity",
2487 "Muhammad and Islam",
2488 "The Birth of Byzantium",
2489 "Barbarian Kingdoms in the West",
2490 "The World of Charlemagne",
2491 "The Carolingian Renaissance",
2492 "The Expansion of Europe",
2493 "The Chivalrous Society",
2494 "Medieval Political Traditions, I",
2495 "Medieval Political Traditions, II",
2496 "Scholastic Culture",
2497 "Vernacular Culture",
2498 "The Crisis of Renaissance Europe",
2499 "The Renaissance Problem",
2500 "Renaissance Portraits",
2501 "The Northern Renaissance",
2502 "The Protestant Reformation—Martin Luther",
2503 "The Protestant Reformation—John Calvin",
2504 "Catholic Reforms and \"Confessionalization\"",
2505 "Exploration and Empire",
2506 "What Challenges Remain?"
2507 ],
2508 "id" : 370,
2509 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/foundations-of-western-civilization.html"
2510}{
2511 "professor" : "Professor Robert Bucholz, D.Phil.",
2512 "title" : "Foundations of Western Civilization II: A History of the Modern Western World",
2513 "description" : "Starting with the Renaissance, the culture of the West exploded. Over the next 600 years, rapid innovations in philosophy, technology, economics, military affairs, and politics allowed what once had been a cultural backwater left by the collapse of the Roman Empire to dominate the world.",
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2515 "lectures" : [
2516 "The Importance of the West",
2517 "Geography Is Destiny",
2518 "Culture Is Destiny",
2519 "Renaissance Humanism—1350–1650",
2520 "Renaissance Princes—1450–1600",
2521 "The New World & the Old—1400–1650",
2522 "The Protestant Reformation—1500–22",
2523 "The Wars of Religion—1523–1648",
2524 "Rational & Scientific Revolutions—1450–1650",
2525 "French Absolutism—1589–1715",
2526 "English Constitutionalism—1603–49",
2527 "English Constitutionalism—1649–89",
2528 "War, Trade, Empire—1688–1702",
2529 "War, Trade, Empire—1702–14",
2530 "War, Trade, Empire—1714–63",
2531 "Life Under the Ancien Régime—1689–1789",
2532 "Enlightenment & Despotism",
2533 "The American Revolution",
2534 "The French Revolution—1789–92",
2535 "The French Revolution—1792–1803",
2536 "The Napoleonic Empire—1803-15",
2537 "Beginnings of Industrialization—1760–1850",
2538 "Consequences of Industrialization—1760–1850",
2539 "The Liberal Response—1776–1861",
2540 "The Romantic Response—1789–1870",
2541 "The Socialist Response—1813–1905",
2542 "Descent of Man; Rise of Woman—1830–90",
2543 "Nationalism—1815–48",
2544 "Nationalism—1848–71",
2545 "Imperial Rivalry—1870–1914",
2546 "Industrial Rivalry—1870–1914",
2547 "The Alliance System—1872–1914",
2548 "Decadence & Malaise—circa 1900",
2549 "The Great War Begins—1914–16",
2550 "Breaking the Deadlock—1915–17",
2551 "The Russian Revolution—1917–22",
2552 "The End of the War—1917–22",
2553 "Recovery & Depression in the West—1919–36",
2554 "Totalitarian Russia—1918–39",
2555 "Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany—1922–36",
2556 "The Holocaust—1933–45",
2557 "The Failure of Diplomacy—1935–39",
2558 "World War II—1939–42",
2559 "World War II—1942-45",
2560 "American Hegemony, Soviet Challenge—1945–75",
2561 "Rebuilding Europe—1945–85",
2562 "The New Europe—1985–2001",
2563 "The Meaning of Western Civilization"
2564 ],
2565 "id" : 8700,
2566 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/foundations-of-western-civilization-ii-a-history-of-the-modern-western-world.html"
2567}{
2568 "professor" : "Taught By Multiple Professors",
2569 "title" : "Francis of Assisi",
2570 "description" : "When Francis of Assisi died at the age of 44 in 1226, he left behind nothing that the world would consider as material wealth. But if one counts as riches the fruits of the spirit and of a humble and a contrite heart, he was wealthy beyond measure, and left behind a legacy that survives, thrives, and changes lives even today.",
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2572 "lectures" : [
2573 "Why Francis of Assisi Is Alive Today",
2574 "The Larger World Francis Inherited",
2575 "The Local World Francis Inherited",
2576 "From Worldly Knight to Knight of Christ",
2577 "Francis and the Church",
2578 "Humility, Poverty, Simplicity",
2579 "Preaching and Ministries of Compassion",
2580 "Knowing and Experiencing Christ",
2581 "Not Francis Alone—The Order(s) Francis Founded",
2582 "Not Men Alone—St. Clare and St. Francis",
2583 "The Franciscans After Francis",
2584 "A Message for Our Time"
2585 ],
2586 "id" : 615,
2587 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/francis-of-assisi.html"
2588}{
2589 "professor" : "Professor Dennis Dalton, Ph.D.",
2590 "title" : "Freedom: The Philosophy of Liberation",
2591 "description" : "Professor Dennis Dalton explores the meaning of freedom, perhaps the most powerful of the ideas that have inspired mankind throughout the ages. Drawing on his work as a scholar of Gandhi and of Indian political thought, he examines the progress of both personal and political freedom. And though the idea of freedom is, for many people, embodied by the United States, the concept is far older than this country. It is by no means an exclusively American product.",
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2593 "lectures" : [
2594 "Freedom in the Ancient World",
2595 "The Advent of Freedom in the Modern World",
2596 "Hegel’s Philosophy of Freedom, God and the State",
2597 "John Stuart Mill’s Philosophy of Freedom",
2598 "Emma Goldman and the Anarchist Idea of Freedom",
2599 "Mahatma Gandhi—Personal and Political Freedom",
2600 "Malcolm X’s Quest for Liberation",
2601 "Martin Luther King, Jr.—Stride Toward Freedom"
2602 ],
2603 "id" : 449,
2604 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/freedom-the-philosophy-of-liberation.html"
2605}{
2606 "professor" : "Professor Bart D. Ehrman, Ph.D., M.Div.",
2607 "title" : "From Jesus to Constantine: A History of Early Christianity",
2608 "description" : "In a world where Christianity has been, in the words of Professor Bart D. Ehrman, \"the most powerful religious, political, social, cultural, economic, and intellectual institution in the history of Western civilization,\" most of us have grown up believing we know the answers to these questions:",
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2610 "lectures" : [
2611 "The Birth of Christianity",
2612 "The Religious World of Early Christianity",
2613 "The Historical Jesus",
2614 "Oral and Written Traditions about Jesus",
2615 "The Apostle Paul",
2616 "The Beginning of Jewish-Christian Relations",
2617 "The Anti-Jewish Use of the Old Testament",
2618 "The Rise of Christian Anti-Judaism",
2619 "The Early Christian Mission",
2620 "The Christianization of the Roman Empire",
2621 "The Early Persecutions of the State",
2622 "The Causes of Christian Persecution",
2623 "Christian Reactions to Persecution",
2624 "The Early Christian Apologists",
2625 "The Diversity of Early Christian Communities",
2626 "Christianities of the Second Century",
2627 "The Role of Pseudepigrapha",
2628 "The Victory of the Proto-Orthodox",
2629 "The New Testament Canon",
2630 "The Development of Church Offices",
2631 "The Rise of Christian Liturgy",
2632 "The Beginnings of Normative Theology",
2633 "The Doctrine of the Trinity",
2634 "Christianity and the Conquest of Empire"
2635 ],
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2637 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/from-jesus-to-constantine-a-history-of-early-christianity.html"
2638}{
2639 "professor" : "Professor Louis Markos, Ph.D.",
2640 "title" : "From Plato to Post-modernism: Understanding the Essence of Literature and the Role of the Author",
2641 "description" : "Any lover of Shakespeare, or of the Romantic poets, can concede that poetry is pleasurable. But is it good for us, and can it teach us anything?",
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2643 "lectures" : [
2644 "Thinking Theoretically",
2645 "Plato—Kicking out the Poets",
2646 "Aristotle's Poetics—Mimesis and Plot",
2647 "Aristotle's Poetics—Character and Catharsis",
2648 "Horace's Ars Poetica",
2649 "Longinus on the Sublime",
2650 "Sidney's \"Apology for Poetry\"",
2651 "Dryden, Pope, and Decorum",
2652 "Burke on the Sublime and Beautiful",
2653 "Kant's Critique of Judgment",
2654 "Schiller on Aesthetics",
2655 "Hegel and the Journey of the Idea",
2656 "Wordsworth, Coleridge, and British Romanticism",
2657 "Mr. Wordsworth's \"Preface\"",
2658 "Coleridge—Transcendental Philosopher",
2659 "Shelley's Defense of Poetry",
2660 "The Function of Criticism—Matthew Arnold and T.S. Eliot",
2661 "The Status of Poetry—I.A. Richards and John Crowe Ransom",
2662 "Heresies and Fallacies—W.K. Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks",
2663 "Archetypal Theory—Saint Paul to Northrop Frye",
2664 "Origins of Modernism",
2665 "Structuralism—Ferdinand de Saussure to Michel Foucault",
2666 "Jacques Derrida on Deconstruction",
2667 "Varieties of Post-modernism"
2668 ],
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2670 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/from-plato-to-post-modernism-understanding-the-essence-of-literature-and-the-role-of-the-author.html"
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2672 "professor" : "Professor Kenneth J. Hammond, Ph.D.",
2673 "title" : "From Yao to Mao: 5000 Years of Chinese History",
2674 "description" : "In a world growing increasingly smaller, China still seems a faraway and exotic land, with secrets and mysteries of ages past, its history and intentions veiled from most Westerners. Yet behind that veil lies one of the most amazing civilizations the world has ever known. For most of its 5,000-year existence, China has been the largest, most populous, wealthiest, and mightiest nation on Earth. And for us as Westerners, it is essential to understand where China has been in order to anticipate its future. This course answers this need by delivering a comprehensive political and historical overview of one of the most fascinating and complex countries in world history.",
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2676 "lectures" : [
2677 "Geography and Archaeology",
2678 "The First Dynasties",
2679 "The Zhou Conquest",
2680 "Fragmentation and Social Change",
2681 "Confucianism and Daoism",
2682 "The Hundred Schools",
2683 "The Early Han Dynasty",
2684 "Later Han and the Three Kingdoms",
2685 "Buddhism",
2686 "Northern and Southern Dynasties",
2687 "Sui Reunification and the Rise of the Tang",
2688 "The Early Tang Dynasty",
2689 "Han Yu and the Late Tang",
2690 "Five Dynasties and the Song Founding",
2691 "Intellectual Ferment in the 11th Century",
2692 "Art and the Way",
2693 "Conquest States in the North",
2694 "Economy and Society in Southern Song",
2695 "Zhu Xi and Neo-Confucianism",
2696 "The Rise of the Mongols",
2697 "The Yuan Dynasty",
2698 "The Rise of the Ming",
2699 "The Ming Golden Age",
2700 "Gridlock and Crisis",
2701 "The Rise of the Manchus",
2702 "Kangxi to Qianlong",
2703 "The Coming of the West",
2704 "Threats from Within and Without",
2705 "The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom",
2706 "Efforts at Reform",
2707 "The Fall of the Empire",
2708 "The New Culture Movement and May 4th",
2709 "The Chinese Communists, 1921–1937",
2710 "War and Revolution",
2711 "China Under Mao",
2712 "China and the World in a New Century"
2713 ],
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2715 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/from-yao-to-mao-5000-years-of-chinese-history.html"
2716}{
2717 "professor" : "Professor Robert Oden, Ph.D.",
2718 "title" : "God and Mankind: Comparative Religions",
2719 "description" : "How do the major religions answer unanswerable questions? What can we gain from their answers? Why are we here? What is my purpose? Where do we go when we die? Will I be forgiven? Will we ever discover the source of the mystery? Each of these questions raises countless more.",
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2721 "lectures" : [
2722 "Why Nothing Is as Intriguing as the Study of Religion",
2723 "Orienting Humanity—Religions as Spiritual Compasses",
2724 "Religious Heroes 1—Gilgamesh and the Dawn of History",
2725 "Religious Heroes 2—Moses and Jesus",
2726 "Pondering Divine Justice—Do We Suffer for Naught?",
2727 "Defending Divine Justice—Religious Accounts of Suffering",
2728 "Religious Rituals and Communities",
2729 "Bringing It All Back Home"
2730 ],
2731 "id" : 616,
2732 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/god-and-mankind-comparative-religions.html"
2733}{
2734 "professor" : "Professor Bill Messenger, M.A.",
2735 "title" : "Great American Music: Broadway Musicals",
2736 "description" : "Give my regards to Broadway... . Is it possible to read those lyrics, let alone hear them, without mentally filling in: Remember me to Herald Square? Have you begun to hum or sing it to yourself, with the words and notes carrying you back in time to the Broadway of George M. Cohan and the heyday of Tin Pan Alley?",
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2738 "lectures" : [
2739 "The Essence of the Musical",
2740 "The Minstrel Era (1828 to c. 1900)",
2741 "Evolution of the Verse/Chorus Song",
2742 "The Ragtime Years (c. 1890–1917)",
2743 "The Vaudeville Era (1881 to c. 1935)",
2744 "Tin Pan Alley",
2745 "Broadway in Its Infancy",
2746 "The Revue versus the Book Musical",
2747 "Superstars on the Horizon",
2748 "Transition into the Jazz Age (1916–20)",
2749 "Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern—Contrasts",
2750 "George Gershwin’s Legacy (1919 to c. 1935)",
2751 "Rodgers and Hammerstein Era (1940s)",
2752 "Golden Age of Musical Theater (1950s)",
2753 "Rock n Roll Reaches Broadway (1960s)",
2754 "Big Bucks and Long Runs (1970s–Present)"
2755 ],
2756 "id" : 7318,
2757 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-american-music-broadway-musicals.html"
2758}{
2759 "professor" : "Professor Allen C. Guelzo, Ph.D.",
2760 "title" : "American Mind",
2761 "description" : "Americans pride themselves on being doers rather than thinkers. Ideas are naturally suspect to such a people. But ideas are at the root of what it means to be American, and today's habits of thought practiced by citizens throughout the United States are the lineal descendants of a powerful body of ideas that traces back to the first European settlers and that was enriched by later generations of American thinkers.",
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2763 "lectures" : [
2764 "The Intellectual Geography of America",
2765 "The Technology of Puritan Thinking",
2766 "The Enlightenment in America",
2767 "Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening",
2768 "The Colonial Colleges",
2769 "Republican Fundamentals",
2770 "Nature’s God and the American Revolution",
2771 "Deism, Science, and Revolution",
2772 "Hamilton and His Money",
2773 "Jefferson and His Debts",
2774 "The Edwardseans—From Hopkins to Finney",
2775 "The Moral Philosophers",
2776 "Whigs and Democrats",
2777 "American Romanticism",
2778 "Faith and Reason at Princeton",
2779 "Romanticism in Mercersburg",
2780 "Slaveholders and Abolitionists",
2781 "Lincoln and Liberal Democracy",
2782 "The Failure of the Genteel Elite",
2783 "Darwin in America",
2784 "Liberalism and the Social Gospel",
2785 "The Agony of William James",
2786 "Josiah Royce—The Idealist Dissenter",
2787 "John Dewey and Social Pragmatism",
2788 "Socialism in America",
2789 "Populists, Progressives, and War",
2790 "Decade of the Disenchanted",
2791 "The Social Science Revolution",
2792 "The New South versus the New Negro",
2793 "FDR and the Intellectuals",
2794 "Science under the Cloud",
2795 "Ironic Judgments",
2796 "Mass Culture and Mass Consumption",
2797 "Integration and Separation",
2798 "The Rebellion of the Privileged",
2799 "The Neo-Conservatives"
2800 ],
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2802 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/american-mind.html"
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2804 "professor" : "Professor David Christian, D.Phil.",
2805 "title" : "Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity",
2806 "description" : "About 100,000 to 60,000 years ago, a species of hominines—bipedal ape-like creatures—began to move out of its home territory in Africa and into the Asian continent. Today, homo sapiens, the descendants of those first hominines—live in nearly every ecological niche. We fly through the air in planes, communicate instantaneously over immense distances, and develop theories about the creation of the Universe. In Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity, you’ll hear this ever-evolving story—the history of everything—in its monumental entirety from the moment the Universe grew from the size of an atom to the size of a galaxy in a fraction of a second.",
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2808 "lectures" : [
2809 "What Is Big History?",
2810 "Moving across Multiple Scales",
2811 "Simplicity and Complexity",
2812 "Evidence and the Nature of Science",
2813 "Threshold 1—Origins of Big Bang Cosmology",
2814 "How Did Everything Begin?",
2815 "Threshold 2—The First Stars and Galaxies",
2816 "Threshold 3—Making Chemical Elements",
2817 "Threshold 4—The Earth and the Solar System",
2818 "The Early Earth—A Short History",
2819 "Plate Tectonics and the Earth's Geography",
2820 "Threshold 5—Life",
2821 "Darwin and Natural Selection",
2822 "The Evidence for Natural Selection",
2823 "The Origins of Life",
2824 "Life on Earth—Single-celled Organisms",
2825 "Life on Earth—Multi-celled Organisms",
2826 "Hominines",
2827 "Evidence on Hominine Evolution",
2828 "Threshold 6—What Makes Humans Different?",
2829 "Homo sapiens—The First Humans",
2830 "Paleolithic Lifeways",
2831 "Change in the Paleolithic Era",
2832 "Threshold 7—Agriculture",
2833 "The Origins of Agriculture",
2834 "The First Agrarian Societies",
2835 "Power and Its Origins",
2836 "Early Power Structures",
2837 "From Villages to Cities",
2838 "Sumer—The First Agrarian Civilization",
2839 "Agrarian Civilizations in Other Regions",
2840 "The World That Agrarian Civilizations Made",
2841 "Long Trends—Expansion and State Power",
2842 "Long Trends—Rates of Innovation",
2843 "Long Trends—Disease and Malthusian Cycles",
2844 "Comparing the World Zones",
2845 "The Americas in the Later Agrarian Era",
2846 "Threshold 8—The Modern Revolution",
2847 "The Medieval Malthusian Cycle, 500–1350",
2848 "The Early Modern Cycle, 1350–1700",
2849 "Breakthrough—The Industrial Revolution",
2850 "Spread of the Industrial Revolution to 1900",
2851 "The 20th Century",
2852 "The World That the Modern Revolution Made",
2853 "Human History and the Biosphere",
2854 "The Next 100 Years",
2855 "The Next Millennium and the Remote Future",
2856 "Big History—Humans in the Cosmos"
2857 ],
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2861 "professor" : "Professor John R. Hale, Ph.D.",
2862 "title" : "Classical Archaeology of Ancient Greece and Rome",
2863 "description" : "Classical archaeology—the excavation and analysis of ancient Greek and Roman sites—was born on Wednesday, October 22, 1738. On that day, Roque Joaquín Alcubierre, an engineer in the army of the Bourbon royal family in Naples, was lowered by ropes down a square well shaft cut through volcanic material that had formed on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius. When Alcubierre reached the bottom of the well, 65 feet below the surface, he began to wind his way through tunnels carved into the volcanic material, noting pieces of architectural elements as he went.",
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2865 "lectures" : [
2866 "Archaeology’s Big Bang",
2867 "“Ode on a Grecian Urn”",
2868 "A Quest for the Trojan War",
2869 "How to Dig",
2870 "First Find Your Site",
2871 "Taking the Search Underwater",
2872 "Cracking the Codes",
2873 "Techniques for Successful Dating",
2874 "Reconstructing Vanished Environments",
2875 "“Not Artifacts but People”",
2876 "Archaeology by Experiment",
2877 "Return to Vesuvius",
2878 "Gournia—Harriet Boyd and the Mother Goddess",
2879 "Thera—A Bronze Age Atlantis?",
2880 "Olympia—Games and Gods",
2881 "Athens’s Agora—Where Socrates Walked",
2882 "Delphi—Questioning the Oracle",
2883 "Kyrenia—Lost Ship of the Hellenistic Age",
2884 "Riace—Warriors from the Sea",
2885 "Rome—Foundation Myths and Archaeology",
2886 "Caesarea Maritima—A Roman City in Judea",
2887 "Teutoburg—Battlefield Archaeology",
2888 "Bath—Healing Waters at Aquae Sulis",
2889 "Torre de Palma—A Farm in the Far West",
2890 "Roots of Classical Culture",
2891 "The Texture of Everyday Life",
2892 "Their Daily Bread",
2893 "Voyaging on a Dark Sea of Wine",
2894 "Shows and Circuses—Rome’s “Virtual Reality”",
2895 "Engineering and Technology",
2896 "Slaves—A Silent Majority?",
2897 "Women of Greece and Rome",
2898 "Hadrian—Mark of the Individual",
2899 "Crucible of New Faiths",
2900 "The End of the World—A Coroner’s Report",
2901 "A Bridge across the Torrent"
2902 ],
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2904 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/classical-archaeology-of-ancient-greece-and-rome.html"
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2906 "professor" : "Professor Timothy Taylor, M.Econ.",
2907 "title" : "Economics, 3rd Edition",
2908 "description" : "We are all economists—when we work, buy, save, invest, pay taxes, and vote. It repays us many times over to be good economists. Economic issues are active in our lives every day. However, when the subject of economics comes up in conversation or on the news, we can find ourselves longing for a more sophisticated understanding of the fundamentals of economics.",
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2910 "lectures" : [
2911 "How Economists Think",
2912 "Division of Labor",
2913 "Supply and Demand",
2914 "Price Floors and Ceilings",
2915 "Elasticity",
2916 "The Labor Market and Wages",
2917 "Financial Markets and Rates of Return",
2918 "Personal Investing",
2919 "From Perfect Competition to Monopoly",
2920 "Antitrust and Competition Policy",
2921 "Regulation and Deregulation",
2922 "Negative Externalities and the Environment",
2923 "Positive Externalities and Technology",
2924 "Public Goods",
2925 "Poverty and Welfare Programs",
2926 "Inequality",
2927 "Imperfect Information and Insurance",
2928 "Corporate and Political Governance",
2929 "Macroeconomics and GDP",
2930 "Economic Growth",
2931 "Unemployment",
2932 "Inflation",
2933 "The Balance of Trade",
2934 "Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand",
2935 "The Unemployment-Inflation Tradeoff",
2936 "Fiscal Policy and Budget Deficits",
2937 "Countercyclical Fiscal Policy",
2938 "Budget Deficits and National Saving",
2939 "Money and Banking",
2940 "The Federal Reserve and Its Powers",
2941 "The Conduct of Monetary Policy",
2942 "The Gains of International Trade",
2943 "The Debates over Protectionism",
2944 "Exchange Rates",
2945 "International Financial Crashes",
2946 "A Global Economic Perspective"
2947 ],
2948 "id" : 550,
2949 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/economics-3rd-edition.html"
2950}{
2951 "professor" : "Professor Paul Root Wolpe, Ph.D.",
2952 "title" : "Explaining Social Deviance",
2953 "description" : "Why do some people commit crimes, use the wrong fork, or speak out of turn? How does a society determine when a crime has been committed, which fork to use, and who should speak when? How have we tried to explain deviance and create categories of deviants? What has been the role of race and class in these definitions?",
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2955 "lectures" : [
2956 "The First Step—Asking the Right Questions",
2957 "Demonism—The Devil's Children and Evil Empires",
2958 "Deviance as Pathology—I'm OK, You Are Twisted",
2959 "Social Disorganization—Deviance in the Urban Landscape",
2960 "Functionalism and Anomie—Why Can't We All Just Get Along?",
2961 "Learning Theory—You Have to be Carefully Taught",
2962 "Control Theory—Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child",
2963 "Labeling Theory—Is Deviance in the Eye of the Beholder?",
2964 "Conflict and Constructionism—Every Step You Take, I'll Be Watching You",
2965 "Case Studies—Sex and Science"
2966 ],
2967 "id" : 675,
2968 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/explaining-social-deviance.html"
2969}{
2970 "professor" : "Taught By Multiple Professors",
2971 "title" : "Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition, 2nd Edition",
2972 "description" : "Novelists, poets, dramatists, historians, biographers, essayists, and philosophers—whether famous or anonymous, many of Western culture's greatest figures have been writers. Ranging from the anonymous author of the Epic of Gilgamesh in ancient Mesopotamia to William Faulkner writing about 19th- and 20th-century Mississippi 3,600 years later, Western writers have each played important parts in establishing the West's rich literary tradition. Their landmark themes, unique insights into human nature, dynamic characters, experimental storytelling techniques, and rich philosophical ideas helped create the vibrant storytelling methods we find reflected in today's authors. They've also played critical roles in Western history and culture as well, influencing everything from religion to politics.",
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2974 "lectures" : [
2975 "Foundations",
2976 "The Epic of Gilgamesh",
2977 "Genesis and the Documentary Hypothesis",
2978 "The Deuteronomistic History",
2979 "Isaiah",
2980 "Job",
2981 "Homer—The Iliad",
2982 "Homer—The Odyssey",
2983 "Sappho and Pindar",
2984 "Aeschylus",
2985 "Sophocles",
2986 "Euripides",
2987 "Herodotus",
2988 "Thucydides",
2989 "Aristophanes",
2990 "Plato",
2991 "Menander and Hellenistic Literature",
2992 "Catullus and Horace",
2993 "Virgil",
2994 "Ovid",
2995 "Livy, Tacitus, Plutarch",
2996 "Petronius and Apuleius",
2997 "The Gospels",
2998 "Augustine",
2999 "Beowulf",
3000 "The Song of Roland",
3001 "El Cid",
3002 "Tristan and Isolt",
3003 "The Romance of the Rose",
3004 "Dante Alighieri—Life and Works",
3005 "Dante Alighieri—The Divine Comedy",
3006 "Petrarch",
3007 "Giovanni Boccaccio",
3008 "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight",
3009 "Geoffrey Chaucer—Life and Works",
3010 "Geoffrey Chaucer—The Canterbury Tales",
3011 "Christine de Pizan",
3012 "Erasmus",
3013 "Thomas More",
3014 "Michel de Montaigne",
3015 "François Rabelais",
3016 "Christopher Marlowe",
3017 "William Shakespeare—The Merchant of Venice",
3018 "William Shakespeare—Hamlet",
3019 "Lope de Vega",
3020 "Miguel de Cervantes",
3021 "John Milton",
3022 "Blaise Pascal",
3023 "Molière",
3024 "Jean Racine",
3025 "Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz",
3026 "Daniel Defoe",
3027 "Alexander Pope",
3028 "Jonathan Swift",
3029 "Voltaire",
3030 "Jean-Jacques Rousseau",
3031 "Samuel Johnson",
3032 "Denis Diderot",
3033 "William Blake",
3034 "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe",
3035 "William Wordsworth",
3036 "Jane Austen",
3037 "Stendhal",
3038 "Herman Melville",
3039 "Walt Whitman",
3040 "Gustave Flaubert",
3041 "Charles Dickens",
3042 "Fyodor Dostoevsky",
3043 "Leo Tolstoy",
3044 "Mark Twain",
3045 "Thomas Hardy",
3046 "Oscar Wilde",
3047 "Henry James",
3048 "Joseph Conrad",
3049 "William Butler Yeats",
3050 "Marcel Proust",
3051 "James Joyce",
3052 "Franz Kafka",
3053 "Virginia Woolf",
3054 "William Faulkner",
3055 "Bertolt Brecht",
3056 "Albert Camus",
3057 "Samuel Beckett",
3058 "Conclusion"
3059 ],
3060 "id" : 2100,
3061 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-authors-of-the-western-literary-tradition-2nd-edition.html"
3062}{
3063 "professor" : "Professor Robert Greenberg, Ph.D.",
3064 "title" : "Great Masters: Mozart-His Life and Music",
3065 "description" : "He composed his first symphony at the age of 8. His middle name means \"loved of God.\" And Austrian Emperor Joseph II accused his music of having \"too many notes.\" This course is a biographical and musical study of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), who composed more than 600 works of beauty and brilliance in just over 20 years.",
3066 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/7/5/752---packaging_flat.1551363262.jpg",
3067 "lectures" : [
3068 "Introduction",
3069 "Leopold and the Grand Tour",
3070 "Mozart the Composer—The Early Music",
3071 "Paris",
3072 "The Flight from Salzburg and Arrival in Vienna",
3073 "Life in Vienna",
3074 "Operas in Vienna",
3075 "The Last Years"
3076 ],
3077 "id" : 752,
3078 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-masters-mozart-his-life-and-music.html"
3079}{
3080 "professor" : "Professor John L. Esposito, Ph.D.",
3081 "title" : "Great World Religions: Islam",
3082 "description" : "University professor and international government and media consultant John L. Esposito guides you through the facts and myths surrounding Islam and its more than 1.2 billion adherents. How familiar are you with the world's second largest and fastest-growing religion? Many in the West know little about the faith and are familiar only with the actions of a minority of radical extremists.",
3083 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/6/1/6102---packaging_flat_4.1551363398.jpg",
3084 "lectures" : [
3085 "Islam Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow",
3086 "The Five Pillars of Islam",
3087 "Muhammad—Prophet and Statesman",
3088 "God's Word—the Quranic Worldview",
3089 "The Muslim Community—Faith and Politics",
3090 "Paths to God—Islamic Law and Mysticism",
3091 "Islamic Revivalism—Renewal and Reform",
3092 "The Contemporary Resurgence of Islam",
3093 "Islam at the Crossroads",
3094 "Women and Change in Islam",
3095 "Islam in the West",
3096 "The Future of Islam"
3097 ],
3098 "id" : 6102,
3099 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-world-religions-islam.html"
3100}{
3101 "professor" : "Professor J. Rufus Fears, Ph.D.",
3102 "title" : "History of Freedom",
3103 "description" : "It can be argued that one simple idea—the concept of freedom—has been the driving force of Western civilization and may be the most influential intellectual force the world has ever known. But what is freedom, exactly? Join historian and classical scholar J. Rufus Fears as he tells freedom's dramatic story from ancient Greece to our own day, exploring a concept so close to us we may never have considered it with the thoroughness it deserves.",
3104 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/4/8/480---packaging_flat_4.1551363542.jpg",
3105 "lectures" : [
3106 "The Birth of Freedom",
3107 "Athenian Democracy",
3108 "Athens—Freedom and Cultural Creativity",
3109 "Athenian Tragedy—Education for Freedom",
3110 "Socrates on Trial",
3111 "Alexander the Great",
3112 "The Roman Republic",
3113 "Julius Caesar",
3114 "Freedom in the Roman Empire",
3115 "Rome—Freedom and Cultural Creativity",
3116 "Gibbon on Rome’s Decline and Fall",
3117 "Jesus",
3118 "Jesus and Socrates",
3119 "Paul the Apostle",
3120 "Freedom in the Middle Ages",
3121 "Luther and the Protestant Reformation",
3122 "From Machiavelli to the Divine Right of Kings",
3123 "The Anglo-American Tradition of Liberty",
3124 "The Shot Heard ’Round the World",
3125 "The Tyranny of George III",
3126 "What the Declaration of Independence Says",
3127 "Natural Law and the Declaration",
3128 "Miracle at Philadelphia",
3129 "What the Constitution Says",
3130 "The Bill of Rights",
3131 "Liberty and Lee at Gettysburg",
3132 "Liberty and Lincoln at Gettysburg",
3133 "FDR and the Progressive Tradition",
3134 "Why the French Revolution Failed",
3135 "The Liberal Tradition",
3136 "Churchill and the War for Freedom",
3137 "The Illiberal Tradition",
3138 "Hitler and the War Against Freedom",
3139 "The Cold War",
3140 "Civil Disobedience and Social Change",
3141 "Freedom and the Lessons of History"
3142 ],
3143 "id" : 480,
3144 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/history-of-freedom.html"
3145}{
3146 "professor" : "Professor Elizabeth Vandiver, Ph.D.",
3147 "title" : "Iliad of Homer",
3148 "description" : "When John Keats first read Chapman's translation of the epics of \"deep-brow'd Homer,\" he was so overwhelmed, so overcome with the joy of discovery, that he compared his experience to finding \"a new planet.\" When you join Professor Elizabeth Vandiver for these lectures on the Iliad, you come to understand what enthralled Keats and has gripped so many readers of Homer.",
3149 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/3/0/301---packaging_flat_5.1551362498.jpg",
3150 "lectures" : [
3151 "Introduction to Homeric Epic",
3152 "The Homeric Question",
3153 "Glory, Honor, and the Wrath of Achilles",
3154 "Within the Walls of Troy",
3155 "The Embassy to Achilles",
3156 "The Paradox of Glory",
3157 "The Role of the Gods",
3158 "The Longest Day",
3159 "The Death of Patroklos",
3160 "Achilles Returns to Battle",
3161 "Achilles and Hektor",
3162 "Enemies' Tears—Achilles and Priam"
3163 ],
3164 "id" : 301,
3165 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/iliad-of-homer.html"
3166}{
3167 "professor" : "Professor Robert Greenberg, Ph.D.",
3168 "title" : "Life and Operas of Verdi",
3169 "description" : "The Italians have a word for the sense of dazzling beauty produced by effortless mastery: \"sprezzatura.\" Perhaps no cultural form associated with Italy is as steeped in the love of sprezzatura as opera, a genre the Italians invented. And no artist working in opera has embodied the ideal of sprezzatura as magnificently as that gruff, self-described \"farmer\" from the Po Valley and composer of 28 operas, Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901).",
3170 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/7/9/790---packaging_flat_4.1551363030.jpg",
3171 "lectures" : [
3172 "La bell'Italia",
3173 "Beginnings",
3174 "Oberto",
3175 "Nabucco",
3176 "Nabucco, Conclusion and Risorgimento",
3177 "I Lombardi",
3178 "I Lombardi, Conclusion and Ernani",
3179 "Macbeth",
3180 "I masnadieri",
3181 "Luisa Miller and Rigoletto",
3182 "Rigoletto, Act I continued",
3183 "Rigoletto, Acts I, II and III",
3184 "Rigoletto, Act III continued",
3185 "Rigoletto, Conclusion and Il trovatore",
3186 "Il trovatore, Conclusion and La traviata",
3187 "Un ballo in maschera",
3188 "Un ballo in maschera, Conclusion",
3189 "La forza del destino",
3190 "Don Carlo",
3191 "Don Carlo, Conclusion",
3192 "Aida",
3193 "Aida, Conclusion",
3194 "The Requiem",
3195 "The Requiem, Conclusion",
3196 "Otello",
3197 "Otello, Conclusion; Falstaff",
3198 "Falstaff, Act I, Sc. 1",
3199 "Falstaff, Act I, Sc. 1, Conclusion; Sc. 2",
3200 "Falstaff, Act I, Sc. 2, Conclusion; Act II, Sc. 1",
3201 "Falstaff, Act II, Sc. 1, Conclusion; Sc. 2",
3202 "Falstaff, Act II, Sc. 2 continued",
3203 "Falstaff, Act II, Conclusion; Act III"
3204 ],
3205 "id" : 790,
3206 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/life-and-operas-of-verdi.html"
3207}{
3208 "professor" : "Professor William R. Cook, Ph.D.",
3209 "title" : "Machiavelli in Context",
3210 "description" : "Mentioning the name Niccolò Machiavelli can unleash a powerful response, even among people who have never read a word of his writings. Our language even has a word—Machiavellian—that encapsulates the images those responses conjure up:",
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3212 "lectures" : [
3213 "Who Is Machiavelli? Why Does He Matter?",
3214 "Machiavelli’s Florence",
3215 "Classical Thought in Renaissance Florence",
3216 "The Life of Niccolò Machiavelli",
3217 "Why Did Machiavelli Write The Prince?",
3218 "The Prince, 1–5—Republics Old and New",
3219 "The Prince, 6–7—Virtù and Fortuna",
3220 "The Prince, 8–12—The Prince and Power",
3221 "The Prince, 13–16—The Art of Being a Prince",
3222 "The Prince, 17–21—The Lion and the Fox",
3223 "The Prince, 21–26—Fortune and Foreigners",
3224 "Livy, the Roman Republic, and Machiavelli",
3225 "Discourses—Why Machiavelli Is a Republican",
3226 "Discourses—The Workings of a Good Republic",
3227 "Discourses—Lessons from Rome",
3228 "Discourses—A Principality or a Republic?",
3229 "Discourses—The Qualities of a Good Republic",
3230 "Discourses—A Republic at War",
3231 "Discourses—Can Republics Last?",
3232 "Discourses—Conspiracies and Other Dangers",
3233 "Florentine Histories—The Growth of Florence",
3234 "Florentine Histories—The Age of the Medici",
3235 "The Fate of Machiavelli’s Works",
3236 "Was Machiavelli a Machiavellian?"
3237 ],
3238 "id" : 4311,
3239 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/machiavelli-in-context.html"
3240}{
3241 "professor" : "Professor Luke Timothy Johnson, Ph.D.",
3242 "title" : "Mystical Tradition: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam",
3243 "description" : "Mystical experiences and practices-including dramatic visions, direct communication with the divine, intense spiritual quests, and hermetic lifestyles-are commonly associated with Eastern cultures. They are thought to be far removed from the monotheistic traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.",
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3245 "lectures" : [
3246 "A Way into the Mystic Ways of the West",
3247 "Family Resemblances and Differences",
3248 "The Biblical Roots of Western Mysticism",
3249 "Mysticism in Early Judaism",
3250 "Merkabah Mysticism",
3251 "The Hasidim of Medieval Germany",
3252 "The Beginnings of Kabbalah",
3253 "Mature Kabbalah—Zohar",
3254 "Isaac Luria and Safed Spirituality",
3255 "Sabbatai Zevi and Messianic Mysticism",
3256 "The Ba'al Shem Tov and the New Hasidism",
3257 "Mysticism in Contemporary Judaism",
3258 "Mystical Elements in the New Testament",
3259 "Gnostic Christianity",
3260 "The Spirituality of the Desert",
3261 "Shaping Christian Mysticism in the East",
3262 "Eastern Monks and the Hesychastic Tradition",
3263 "The Mysticism of Western Monasticism",
3264 "Medieval Female Mystics",
3265 "Mendicants as Mystics",
3266 "English Mystics of the 14th Century",
3267 "15th- and 16th-Century Spanish Mystics",
3268 "Mysticism among Protestant Reformers",
3269 "Mystical Expressions in Protestantism",
3270 "20th-Century Mystics",
3271 "Muhammad the Prophet as Mystic",
3272 "The House of Islam",
3273 "The Mystical Sect—Shi'a",
3274 "The Appearance of Sufism",
3275 "Early Sufi Masters",
3276 "The Limits of Mysticism—Al-Ghazzali",
3277 "Two Masters, Two Streams",
3278 "Sufism in 12th–14th Century North Africa",
3279 "Sufi Saints of Persia and India",
3280 "The Continuing Sufi Tradition",
3281 "Mysticism in the West Today"
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3284 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/mystical-tradition-judaism-christianity-and-islam.html"
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3286 "professor" : "Professor Phillip Cary, Ph.D.",
3287 "title" : "Philosophy and Religion in the West",
3288 "description" : "Acclaimed humanities teacher Phillip Cary explores thousands of years of deep reflection and brilliant debate over the nature of God, the human self, and the world. It's a debate that serves as a vivid introduction to the rich and complex history shared by the West's central religious and philosophical traditions.",
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3290 "lectures" : [
3291 "Introduction—Philosophy and Religion as Traditions",
3292 "Plato's Inquiries—The Gods and the Good",
3293 "Plato's Spirituality—The Immortal Soul and the Other World",
3294 "Aristotle and Plato—Cosmos, Contemplation, and Happiness",
3295 "Plotinus—Neoplatonism and the Ultimate Unity of All",
3296 "The Jewish Scriptures—Life With the God of Israel",
3297 "Platonist Philosophy and Scriptural Religion",
3298 "The New Testament—Life in Christ",
3299 "Rabbinic Judaism—Israel and the Torah",
3300 "Church Fathers—The Logos Made Flesh",
3301 "The Development of Christian Platonism",
3302 "Jewish Rationalism and Mysticism—Maimonides and Kabbalah",
3303 "Classical Theism—Proofs and Attributes of God",
3304 "Medieval Christian Theology—Nature and Grace",
3305 "Late-Medieval Nominalism and Christian Mysticism",
3306 "Protestantism—Problems of Grace",
3307 "Descartes, Locke, and the Crisis of Modernity",
3308 "Leibniz and Theodicy",
3309 "Hume's Critique of Religion",
3310 "Kant—Reason Limited to Experience",
3311 "Kant—Morality as the Basis of Religion",
3312 "Schleiermacher—Feeling as the Basis of Religion",
3313 "Hegel—A Philosophical History of Religion",
3314 "Marx and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion",
3315 "Kierkegaard—Existentialism and the Leap of Faith",
3316 "Nietzsche—Critic of Christian Morality",
3317 "Neo-orthodoxy—The Subject and Object of Faith",
3318 "Encountering the Biblical Other—Buber and Levinas",
3319 "Process Philosophy—God in Time",
3320 "Logical Empiricism and the Meaning of Religion",
3321 "Reformed Epistemology and the Rationality of Belief",
3322 "Conclusion—Philosophy and Religion Today"
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3325 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/philosophy-and-religion-in-the-west.html"
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3327 "professor" : "Professor Thomas Williams, Ph.D.",
3328 "title" : "Reason & Faith: Philosophy in the Middle Ages",
3329 "description" : "Are philosophy and religion—reason and faith—fundamentally at odds? From today's strict division between questions of logic and questions of belief, one might think so. But for 1,000 years during a pivotal era of Western thought, reason and faith went hand-in-hand in the search for answers to the most profound issues investigated by Christianity's most committed scholars:",
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3331 "lectures" : [
3332 "Faith Seeking Understanding",
3333 "Augustine's Platonic Background",
3334 "Augustine on Authority, Reason, and Truth",
3335 "Augustine on the Origin of Evil",
3336 "Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy",
3337 "Boethius on Foreknowledge and Freedom",
3338 "Anselm and the 11th-Century Context",
3339 "Anselm's Proof That God Exists",
3340 "Anselm on the Divine Attributes",
3341 "Anselm on Freedom and the Fall",
3342 "Abelard on Understanding the Trinity",
3343 "Abelard on Understanding Redemption",
3344 "The Rediscovery of Aristotle",
3345 "Bonaventure on the Mind's Journey into God",
3346 "Aquinas on What Reason Can and Cannot Do",
3347 "Aquinas's Proof of an Unmoved Mover",
3348 "Aquinas on How to Talk about God",
3349 "Aquinas on Human Nature",
3350 "Aquinas on Natural and Supernatural Virtues",
3351 "Scotus on God's Freedom and Ours",
3352 "Scotus on Saying Exactly What God Is",
3353 "What Ockham's Razor Leaves Behind",
3354 "Ockham on the Prospects for Knowing God",
3355 "The 14th Century and Beyond"
3356 ],
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3358 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/reason-faith-philosophy-in-the-middle-ages.html"
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3360 "professor" : "Professor Peter Saccio, Ph.D.",
3361 "title" : "Shakespeare: The Word and the Action",
3362 "description" : "Shakespeare is the leading playwright, and probably the leading writer, in Western civilization. His works are one of the greatest achievements of the human mind and spirit. And yet, for many of us they remain a closed book. Why? Too often, we were force-fed Shakespeare as adolescents—when our own dramas were all-consuming. The language of Shakespeare is 400 years old: even as adults, reading or seeing a play may seem like listening to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and missing half the notes.",
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3364 "lectures" : [
3365 "Shakespeare's Wavelengths",
3366 "The Multiple Actions of A Midsummer Night's Dream",
3367 "The Form of Shakespeare's Sonnets",
3368 "Love in Shakespeare's Sonnets",
3369 "Love and Artifice in Love's Labor's Lost and Much Ado About Nothing",
3370 "As You Like It",
3371 "The Battles of Henry VI",
3372 "Richard III and the Renaissance",
3373 "History and Family in Henry IV",
3374 "Action in Hamlet",
3375 "Coriolanus—The Hero Alone",
3376 "Change in Antony and Cleopatra",
3377 "The Plot of Cymbeline",
3378 "Nature and Art in The Winter's Tale",
3379 "Three Kinds of Tempest",
3380 "History and Henry VIII"
3381 ],
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3383 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/shakespeare-the-word-and-the-action.html"
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3385 "professor" : "Professor Robert C. Solomon, Ph.D.",
3386 "title" : "Passions: Philosophy and the Intelligence of Emotions",
3387 "description" : "Fear, joy, grief, love, hate, pride, shame. We all have emotions, and we recognize emotions in others. But do we really understand what emotions are and what they signify? It is remarkable how often we are wrong about our own emotions and misread the emotions of others. We also deceive ourselves about their meaning. The more we puzzle over the nature of emotions, the deeper the mystery becomes. It is a mystery that is by no means solved, but one that repays careful, philosophical analysis.",
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3389 "lectures" : [
3390 "Emotions as Engagements with the World",
3391 "The Wrath of Achilles",
3392 "It’s Good to Be Afraid",
3393 "Lessons of Love—Plato’s Symposium",
3394 "We Are Not Alone—Compassion and Empathy",
3395 "Noble? or Deadly Sin? Pride and Shame",
3396 "Nasty—Iago’s Envy, Othello’s Jealousy",
3397 "Nastier—Resentment and Vengeance",
3398 "A Death in the Family—The Logic of Grief",
3399 "James and the Bear—Emotions and Feelings",
3400 "Freud’s Catharsis—the Hydraulic Model",
3401 "Are Emotions “in” the Mind?",
3402 "How Emotions Are Intelligent",
3403 "Emotions as Judgments",
3404 "Beyond Boohoo and Hooray",
3405 "Emotions Are Rational",
3406 "Emotions and Responsibility",
3407 "Emotions in Ethics",
3408 "Emotions and the Self",
3409 "What Is Emotional Experience?",
3410 "Emotions across Cultures—Universals",
3411 "Emotions across Cultures—Differences",
3412 "Laughter and Music",
3413 "Happiness and Spirituality"
3414 ],
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3416 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/passions-philosophy-and-the-intelligence-of-emotions.html"
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3418 "professor" : "Professor Garrett G. Fagan, Ph.D.",
3419 "title" : "Great Battles of the Ancient World",
3420 "description" : "Hollywood has gone to elaborate lengths to recreate the violence and mayhem of ancient warfare in movies such as Gladiator and Troy. But what were ancient battles really like? What weapons, tactics, armor, training, and logistics were used? And what were the crucial factors that could turn the tide of battle, giving one side victory and consigning the other to slaughter, capture, or, at best, escape to fight another day?",
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3422 "lectures" : [
3423 "Why Study Battles? What Is War?",
3424 "The Problem of Warfare’s Origins",
3425 "Sumer, Akkad, and Early Mesopotamian Warfare",
3426 "Egyptian Warfare from the Old to New Kingdoms",
3427 "The Battles of Megiddo and Kadesh",
3428 "The Trojan War and Homeric Warfare",
3429 "The Assyrian War Machine",
3430 "The Sieges of Lachish and Jerusalem",
3431 "A Peculiar Institution? Hoplite Warfare",
3432 "The Battle of Marathon",
3433 "The Battle of Thermopylae",
3434 "Naval Warfare and the Battle of Salamis",
3435 "The Athenian Expedition to Sicily",
3436 "The March of the Ten Thousand",
3437 "Macedonian Military Innovations",
3438 "Alexander’s Conquest of Persia",
3439 "The Legions of Rome",
3440 "The Battles of Cannae and Zama",
3441 "Legion versus Phalanx—Six Pitched Battles",
3442 "The Sieges of Alesia and Masada",
3443 "Caesar’s World War",
3444 "The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest",
3445 "Catastrophe at Adrianople",
3446 "Reflections on Warfare in the Ancient World"
3447 ],
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3449 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-battles-of-the-ancient-world.html"
3450}{
3451 "professor" : "Professor Kenneth W. Harl, Ph.D.",
3452 "title" : "Great Ancient Civilizations of Asia Minor",
3453 "description" : "Perhaps no other region of the world has played so many different roles in culture, religion, and politics, for so long a period of time, as the peninsula of Asian Turkey, known to the Greeks as Anatolia and to the Romans as Asia Minor. Though today we call it Turkey, that name dates back only to the Middle Ages.",
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3455 "lectures" : [
3456 "Introduction to Anatolia",
3457 "First Civilizations in Anatolia",
3458 "The Hittite Empire",
3459 "Hattušaš and Imperial Hittite Culture",
3460 "Origins of Greek Civilization",
3461 "The Legend of Troy",
3462 "Iron Age Kingdoms of Asia Minor",
3463 "Emergence of the Polis",
3464 "Ionia and Early Greek Civilization",
3465 "The Persian Conquest",
3466 "Athenian Empire and Spartan Hegemony",
3467 "Alexander the Great and the Diadochoi",
3468 "The Hellenization of Asia Minor",
3469 "Rome versus the Kings of the East",
3470 "Prosperity and Roman Patronage",
3471 "Gods and Sanctuaries of Roman Asia Minor",
3472 "Jews and Early Christians",
3473 "From Rome to Byzantium",
3474 "Constantinople, Queen of Cities",
3475 "The Byzantine Dark Age",
3476 "Byzantine Cultural Revival",
3477 "Crusaders and Seljuk Turks",
3478 "Muslim Transformation",
3479 "The Ottoman Empire"
3480 ],
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3482 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-ancient-civilizations-of-asia-minor.html"
3483}{
3484 "professor" : "Professor Thomas L. Pangle, Ph.D.",
3485 "title" : "Great Debate: Advocates and Opponents of the American Constitution",
3486 "description" : "\"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, ...\"—U.S. Constitution",
3487 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/4/8/4878---packaging_flat_4.1551363345.jpg",
3488 "lectures" : [
3489 "Significance and Historical Context",
3490 "Classical Republicanism",
3491 "The Anti-Federalists' Republican Vision",
3492 "The Argument over National Security",
3493 "The Deep Difficulties in Each Position",
3494 "Debating the Meaning of \"Federalism\"",
3495 "The Madisonian Republic",
3496 "The Argument over Representation",
3497 "Disputing Separation of Powers, Part 1",
3498 "Disputing Separation of Powers, Part 2",
3499 "The Supreme Court and Judicial Review",
3500 "The Bill of Rights"
3501 ],
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3503 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-debate-advocates-and-opponents-of-the-american-constitution.html"
3504}{
3505 "professor" : "Professor Amy-Jill Levine, Ph.D.",
3506 "title" : "Great Figures of the New Testament",
3507 "description" : "Improve your biblical literacy and re-encounter the New Testament as a great repository of literary genius. This is the promise of Professor Amy-Jill Levine's vivid portraits of the cast of characters in the New Testament. While most of the figures treated are real, historical people, at least two (the Prodigal Son and the Good Samaritan) are fictional protagonists in stories told by Jesus within Luke's Gospel.",
3508 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/6/2/6206---packaging_flat_4.1551362519.jpg",
3509 "lectures" : [
3510 "The New Testament",
3511 "John the Baptist",
3512 "The Virgin Mary",
3513 "Joseph, Magi, and Shepherds",
3514 "Peter",
3515 "John and James, the Sons of Zebedee",
3516 "Martha, Mary, and Lazarus",
3517 "\"Doubting\" Thomas",
3518 "The Gentile Mother",
3519 "The Good Samaritan and the Prodigal Son",
3520 "The Samaritan Woman",
3521 "Mary Magdalene",
3522 "Pharisees and Sadducees",
3523 "The Herodians",
3524 "Judas Iscariot",
3525 "Pontius Pilate",
3526 "James",
3527 "Stephen",
3528 "Philip",
3529 "The Centurions",
3530 "Paul, the Hero of Acts",
3531 "Paul, the Epistolary Evangelist",
3532 "Jesus of Nazareth",
3533 "The Christ of Faith"
3534 ],
3535 "id" : 6206,
3536 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-figures-of-the-new-testament.html"
3537}{
3538 "professor" : "Professor Steven Pollock, Ph.D.",
3539 "title" : "Great Ideas of Classical Physics",
3540 "description" : "There is a hidden order in the ceaselessly changing world around us. It's called classical physics, and it's about how the world is put together. Classical physics is about how things move, why they move, and how they work. It's about making sense of motion, gravity, light, heat, sound, electricity, and magnetism, and seeing how these phenomena interweave to create the rich tapestry of everyday experience.",
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3542 "lectures" : [
3543 "The Great Ideas of Classical Physics",
3544 "Describing Motion—A Break from Aristotle",
3545 "Describing Ever More Complex Motion",
3546 "Astronomy as a Bridge to Modern Physics",
3547 "Isaac Newton—The Dawn of Classical Physics",
3548 "Newton Quantified—Force and Acceleration",
3549 "Newton and the Connections to Astronomy",
3550 "Universal Gravitation",
3551 "Newton's Third Law",
3552 "Conservation of Momentum",
3553 "Beyond Newton—Work and Energy",
3554 "Power and the Newtonian Synthesis",
3555 "Further Developments—Static Electricity",
3556 "Electricity, Magnetism, and Force Fields",
3557 "Electrical Currents and Voltage",
3558 "The Origin of Electric and Magnetic Fields",
3559 "Unification I—Maxwell's Equations",
3560 "Unification II—Electromagnetism and Light",
3561 "Vibrations and Waves",
3562 "Sound Waves and Light Waves",
3563 "The Atomic Hypothesis",
3564 "Energy in Systems—Heat and Thermodynamics",
3565 "Heat and the Second Law of Thermodynamics",
3566 "The Grand Picture of Classical Physics"
3567 ],
3568 "id" : 1295,
3569 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-ideas-of-classical-physics.html"
3570}{
3571 "professor" : "Professor Daniel N. Robinson, Ph.D.",
3572 "title" : "Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition",
3573 "description" : "Humanity left childhood and entered the troubled but productive world when it started to criticize its own certainties and weigh the worthiness of its most secure beliefs. Thus began that \"Long Debate\" on the nature of truth, the scale of real values, the life one should aspire to live, the character of justice, the sources of law, the terms of civic and political life—the good, the better, the best.",
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3575 "lectures" : [
3576 "From the Upanishads to Homer",
3577 "Philosophy—Did the Greeks Invent It?",
3578 "Pythagoras and the Divinity of Number",
3579 "What Is There?",
3580 "The Greek Tragedians on Man’s Fate",
3581 "Herodotus and the Lamp of History",
3582 "Socrates on the Examined Life",
3583 "Plato's Search For Truth",
3584 "Can Virtue Be Taught?",
3585 "Plato's Republic—Man Writ Large",
3586 "Hippocrates and the Science of Life",
3587 "Aristotle on the Knowable",
3588 "Aristotle on Friendship",
3589 "Aristotle on the Perfect Life",
3590 "Rome, the Stoics, and the Rule of Law",
3591 "The Stoic Bridge to Christianity",
3592 "Roman Law—Making a City of the Once-Wide World",
3593 "The Light Within—Augustine on Human Nature",
3594 "Islam",
3595 "Secular Knowledge—The Idea of University",
3596 "The Reappearance of Experimental Science",
3597 "Scholasticism and the Theory of Natural Law",
3598 "The Renaissance—Was There One?",
3599 "Let Us Burn the Witches to Save Them",
3600 "Francis Bacon and the Authority of Experience",
3601 "Descartes and the Authority of Reason",
3602 "Newton—The Saint of Science",
3603 "Hobbes and the Social Machine",
3604 "Locke’s Newtonian Science of the Mind",
3605 "No matter? The Challenge of Materialism",
3606 "Hume and the Pursuit of Happiness",
3607 "Thomas Reid and the Scottish School",
3608 "France and the Philosophes",
3609 "The Federalist Papers and the Great Experiment",
3610 "What Is Enlightenment? Kant on Freedom",
3611 "Moral Science and the Natural World",
3612 "Phrenology—A Science of the Mind",
3613 "The Idea of Freedom",
3614 "The Hegelians and History",
3615 "The Aesthetic Movement—Genius",
3616 "Nietzsche at the Twilight",
3617 "The Liberal Tradition—J. S. Mill",
3618 "Darwin and Nature’s “Purposes”",
3619 "Marxism—Dead But Not Forgotten",
3620 "The Freudian World",
3621 "The Radical William James",
3622 "William James's Pragmatism",
3623 "Wittgenstein and the Discursive Turn",
3624 "Alan Turing in the Forest of Wisdom",
3625 "Four Theories of the Good Life",
3626 "Ontology—What There \"Really\" Is",
3627 "Philosophy of Science—The Last Word?",
3628 "Philosophy of Psychology and Related Confusions",
3629 "Philosophy of Mind, If There Is One",
3630 "What makes a Problem \"Moral\"",
3631 "Medicine and the Value of Life",
3632 "On the Nature of Law",
3633 "Justice and Just Wars",
3634 "Aesthetics—Beauty Without Observers",
3635 "God—Really?"
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3638 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-ideas-of-philosophy-2nd-edition.html"
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3640 "professor" : "Professor Daniel N. Robinson, Ph.D.",
3641 "title" : "Great Ideas of Psychology",
3642 "description" : "If you've ever wanted to delve more deeply into the mysteries of human emotion, perception, and cognition, and of why we do what we do, this course offers a superb place to start. As you hear these lectures, you hear the entire history of psychology unfold. And you learn that the subject most of us today associate with names like Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and B. F. Skinner really began thousands of years earlier.",
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3644 "lectures" : [
3645 "Defining the Subject",
3646 "Ancient Foundations—Greek Philosophers and Physicians",
3647 "Minds Possessed—Witchery and the Search for Explanations",
3648 "The Emergence of Modern Science—Locke's “Newtonian” Theory of Mind",
3649 "Three Enduring “Isms”—Empiricism, Rationalism, Materialism",
3650 "Sensation and Perception",
3651 "The Visual Process",
3652 "Hearing",
3653 "Signal-Detection Theory",
3654 "Perceptual Constancies and Illusions",
3655 "Learning and Memory: Associationism—Aristotle to Ebbinghaus",
3656 "Pavlov and the Conditioned Reflex",
3657 "Watson and American Behaviorism",
3658 "B.F. Skinner and Modern Behaviorism",
3659 "B.F. Skinner and the Engineering of Society",
3660 "Language",
3661 "The Integration of Experience",
3662 "Perception and Attention",
3663 "Cognitive \"Maps,\" \"Insight,\" and Animal Minds",
3664 "Memory Revisited—Mnemonics and Context",
3665 "Piaget's Stage Theory of Cognitive Development",
3666 "The Development of Moral Reasoning",
3667 "Knowledge, Thinking, and Understanding",
3668 "Comprehanding the World of Experience—Cognition Summarized",
3669 "Psychobiology—Nineteenth-Century Foundations",
3670 "Language and the Brain",
3671 "Rationality, Problem-Solving, and Brain Function",
3672 "The \"Emotional\" Brain—The Limbic System",
3673 "Violence and the Brain",
3674 "Psychopathology—The Medical Model",
3675 "Artificial Intelligence and the Neurocognitive Revolution",
3676 "Is Artificial Intelligence \"Intelligent\"?",
3677 "What Makes an Event \"Social\"?",
3678 "Socialization—Darwin and the \"Natural History\" Method",
3679 "Freud's Debt to Darwin",
3680 "Freud, Breuer, and the Theory of Repression",
3681 "Freud's Theory of Psychosexual Development",
3682 "Critiques of Freudian Theory",
3683 "What Is \"Personality\"?",
3684 "Obedience and Conformity",
3685 "Altruism",
3686 "Prejudice and Self-Deception",
3687 "On Being Sane in Insane Places",
3688 "Intelligence",
3689 "Personality Traits and the Problem of Assessment",
3690 "Genetic Psychology and \"The Bell Curve\"",
3691 "Psychological and Biological Determinism",
3692 "Civic Development—Psychology, the Person, and the Polis"
3693 ],
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3695 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-ideas-of-psychology.html"
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3697 "professor" : "Professor Robert Greenberg, Ph.D.",
3698 "title" : "Great Masters: Beethoven-His Life and Music",
3699 "description" : "Ludwig van Beethoven was one of the most prolific and inspiring forces in the history of music. With his brilliant compositions and his unique approach to the piano, he changed the face of western concert music forever. After Beethoven nothing could ever be the same again.",
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3701 "lectures" : [
3702 "The Immortal Beloved",
3703 "What Comes down Must Go up, 1813–1815",
3704 "What Goes up Must Come down, 1815",
3705 "Beethoven and His Nephew, 1815–1819",
3706 "Beethoven the Pianist",
3707 "Beethoven the Composer, 1792–1802",
3708 "The Heroic Ideal",
3709 "Two Concerts, 1808 and 1824"
3710 ],
3711 "id" : 755,
3712 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-masters-beethoven-his-life-and-music.html"
3713}{
3714 "professor" : "Professor Robert Greenberg, Ph.D.",
3715 "title" : "Great Masters: Brahms-His Life and Music",
3716 "description" : "In both his life and his music, Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) was a man of contrasts. He composed serious Teutonic music and joyful dance music. He was miserly with himself and exceedingly generous with family and associates. He was kind to working people and known for his biting, malicious wit in artistic and aristocratic social circles.",
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3718 "lectures" : [
3719 "J.B., We Hardly Knew You!",
3720 "The Brothels of Hamburg",
3721 "The Schumanns",
3722 "The Vagabond Years",
3723 "Maturity",
3724 "Mastery",
3725 "The Tramp of Giants",
3726 "Farewells"
3727 ],
3728 "id" : 757,
3729 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-masters-brahms-his-life-and-music.html"
3730}{
3731 "professor" : "Professor Robert Greenberg, Ph.D.",
3732 "title" : "Great Masters: Haydn-His Life and Music",
3733 "description" : "The music of Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) is so technically superb, so widely imitated, and so rich in quality and quantity that almost since the moment of its creation it has exemplified the Classical style. More than any other single composer, it was Haydn who created the Classical-era symphony. And his 68 string quartets? They are the standard by which all other Classical string quartets were and are judged. No less an expert than Mozart wrote that it was from Haydn that he had learned how to write quartets.",
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3735 "lectures" : [
3736 "Introduction and Early Life",
3737 "The Lean Years and the Pre-Classical Style",
3738 "Haydn’s Marriage and Esterháza",
3739 "Esterháza Continued",
3740 "The Classical String Quartet and the Classical Symphony",
3741 "London",
3742 "Beethoven, London Again, and Breakthrough",
3743 "The Creation, The Seasons, and the End"
3744 ],
3745 "id" : 751,
3746 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-masters-haydn-his-life-and-music.html"
3747}{
3748 "professor" : "Professor Robert Greenberg, Ph.D.",
3749 "title" : "Great Masters: Liszt-His Life and Music",
3750 "description" : "Musically, Franz Liszt (1811–1886) is one of the most written about but least understood composers of the 19th century. As for his life—Felix Mendelssohn observed that Liszt's character was \"a continual alternation between scandal and apotheosis.\" \"Scandal and apotheosis\"? What could that possibly mean? Join music professor Robert Greenberg for these lectures, and go on a fascinating journey in search of the truth about both. \"Franz Liszt, Both Sides Now,\" you might call it.",
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3752 "lectures" : [
3753 "Le Concert, C'est Moi—The Concert is Me",
3754 "A Born Pianist",
3755 "Revelation",
3756 "Transcendence",
3757 "Weimar",
3758 "The Music at Weimar",
3759 "Rome",
3760 "A Life Well Lived"
3761 ],
3762 "id" : 758,
3763 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-masters-liszt-his-life-and-music.html"
3764}{
3765 "professor" : "Professor Robert Greenberg, Ph.D.",
3766 "title" : "Great Masters: Mahler-His Life and Music",
3767 "description" : "\"I am thrice homeless, as a Bohemian in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, as a Jew throughout the world—everywhere an intruder, never welcomed.\" Thus spoke Gustav Mahler (1860–1911), composer, conductor, symphonist. More than many other composers, Gustav Mahler's works are highly personal expressions of his inner world, a world characterized by an overwhelming alienation and loneliness.",
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3769 "lectures" : [
3770 "Introduction and Childhood",
3771 "Mahler the Conductor",
3772 "Early Songs and Symphony No. 1",
3773 "The Wunderhorn Symphonies",
3774 "Alma and Vienna",
3775 "Family Life and Symphony No. 5",
3776 "Symphony No. 6, and Das Lied von der Erde",
3777 "Das Lied, Final Symphonies, and the End"
3778 ],
3779 "id" : 756,
3780 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-masters-mahler-his-life-and-music.html"
3781}{
3782 "professor" : "Professor Robert Greenberg, Ph.D.",
3783 "title" : "Great Masters: Shostakovich-His Life and Music",
3784 "description" : "Discover the extraordinary life, times, and art of Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975), great musical master and flawed but faithful witness to the survival of the human spirit under totalitarianism. He is without a doubt one of the absolutely central composers of the 20th century. His symphonies and string quartets are mainstays of the repertoire.",
3785 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/7/6/760---packaging_flat.1551366790.jpg",
3786 "lectures" : [
3787 "Let the Controversy Begin",
3788 "The Kid's Got Talent!",
3789 "Lady Macbeth",
3790 "Resurrection",
3791 "The Great Patriotic War",
3792 "Repression and Depression",
3793 "The Thaw",
3794 "Illness and Inspiration"
3795 ],
3796 "id" : 760,
3797 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-masters-shostakovich-his-life-and-music.html"
3798}{
3799 "professor" : "Professor Robert Greenberg, Ph.D.",
3800 "title" : "Great Masters: Stravinsky-His Life and Music",
3801 "description" : "When it comes to creative longevity, brilliance across a range of styles, and near-universal fame, Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) is nearly unrivaled among 20th-century artists. As told by Professor Robert Greenberg, Stravinsky's career is a dizzying, enthralling progression across the miles and the decades from fin de siècle Czarist Russia to Southern California in the 1960s.",
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3803 "lectures" : [
3804 "Introduction and There’s No Place Like Home",
3805 "From Student to Professional",
3806 "The Rite of Spring",
3807 "The War Years (WWI)",
3808 "Neoclassicism",
3809 "Maturity",
3810 "A Citizen of the World",
3811 "The New Stravinsky"
3812 ],
3813 "id" : 754,
3814 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-masters-stravinsky-his-life-and-music.html"
3815}{
3816 "professor" : "Professor Robert Greenberg, Ph.D.",
3817 "title" : "Great Masters: Tchaikovsky—His Life and Music",
3818 "description" : "The life of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) exhibits as close a link as you will find anywhere between an artist's inner world and the outward products of that artist's creative activity. As a man, Tchaikovsky was defined by and indivisible from his music, which became an outlet for all the shifting moods of his turbulent soul. As Professor Robert Greenberg says, \"If Tchaikovsky felt it, it found a way into his music.\"",
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3820 "lectures" : [
3821 "Introduction and Early Life",
3822 "A Career in Music",
3823 "The First Masterworks",
3824 "Maturity",
3825 "Three Women—Tatyana, Antonina, and Nadezhda",
3826 "\"My Great Friend\"",
3827 "\"A Free Man\"",
3828 "The Last Years, or Don't Drink the Water"
3829 ],
3830 "id" : 753,
3831 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-masters-tchaikovsky-his-life-and-music.html"
3832}{
3833 "professor" : "Professor Robert Greenberg, Ph.D.",
3834 "title" : "Great Masters: Robert and Clara Schumann-Their Lives and Music",
3835 "description" : "In this course by Professor Robert Greenberg you meet the Schumanns—brilliant, gifted, troubled, and unique in the history of music. Robert Schumann (1810–1856) and his wife Clara Wieck Schumann (1819–1896) have earned a distinct place in the annals of Western music. As a couple with a two-career marriage—he as a pioneering critic and composer, she as one of the leading concert pianists of Europe—they were highly exceptional in their own time though they seem very contemporary in ours.",
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3837 "lectures" : [
3838 "Isn't it Romantic!",
3839 "A Pianist in Leipzig",
3840 "Clara",
3841 "Carnaval",
3842 "Marriage and Songs",
3843 "The Symphonic Year",
3844 "Illness Takes Hold",
3845 "Madness"
3846 ],
3847 "id" : 759,
3848 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-masters-robert-and-clara-schumann-their-lives-and-music.html"
3849}{
3850 "professor" : "Taught By Multiple Professors",
3851 "title" : "Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition",
3852 "description" : "For 3,000 years, mankind has grappled with fundamental questions about life. Crucial questions about our existence and being have been pondered by thoughtful men and women since civilization began. The most brilliant minds in history focused on these questions—and their search for answers has left us an intellectual legacy of unsurpassed depth and richness. Questions like:",
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3854 "lectures" : [
3855 "Introduction",
3856 "The Pre-Socratics—Physics and Metaphysics",
3857 "The Sophists and Social Science",
3858 "Plato—Metaphysics",
3859 "Plato—Politics",
3860 "Plato—Psychology",
3861 "Aristotle—Metaphysics",
3862 "Aristotle—Politics",
3863 "Aristotle—Ethics",
3864 "Stoicism and Epicureanism",
3865 "Roman Eclecticism—Cicero and Polybius",
3866 "Roman Skepticism—Sextus Empiricus",
3867 "Introduction",
3868 "Job and the Problem of Suffering",
3869 "The Hebrew Bible and Covenantal History",
3870 "The Synoptic Gospels—The Historical Jesus and the Kingdom of God",
3871 "Paul—Justification by Faith",
3872 "Plotinus and Neo-Platonism",
3873 "Augustine—Grace and Free Will",
3874 "Aquinas and Christian Aristotelianism",
3875 "Universals in Medieval Thought",
3876 "Mysticism and Meister Eckhart",
3877 "Luther—Law and Gospel",
3878 "Calvin and Protestantism",
3879 "Introduction",
3880 "Machiavelli and the Origins of Political Science",
3881 "More's Utopianism",
3882 "Erasmus Against Enthusiasm",
3883 "Galileo and the New Astronomy",
3884 "Bacon's New Organon and the New Science",
3885 "Descartes—The Method of Modern Philosophy",
3886 "Hobbes—Politics and the State of Nature",
3887 "Spinoza—Rationalism and the Reverence for Being",
3888 "Pascal—Skepticism and Jansenism",
3889 "Bayle—Skepticism and Calvinism",
3890 "Newton and Enlightened Science",
3891 "Introduction",
3892 "Locke—Politics",
3893 "Locke—The Revolution in Knowledge",
3894 "Vico and the New Science of History",
3895 "Montesquieu and Political Thought",
3896 "The Worldly Philosophy of Bernard Mandeville",
3897 "Bishop Berkeley—Idealism and Critique of the Enlightenment",
3898 "Hume's Epistemology",
3899 "Hume's Theory of Morality",
3900 "Hume's Natural Religion",
3901 "Adam Smith and the Origins of Political Economy",
3902 "Rousseau's Dissent",
3903 "Introduction",
3904 "Kant's \"Copernican Revolution\"",
3905 "Kant's Moral Theory",
3906 "Burke—The Origins of Conservatism",
3907 "Hegel—History and Historicism",
3908 "Marx—Historical Materialism",
3909 "Marx—On Alienation",
3910 "Mill's Utilitarianism",
3911 "Kierkegaard and the Leap of Faith",
3912 "Schopenhauer—The World as Will and Idea",
3913 "Nietzsche—Perspectivism and the Will to Power",
3914 "Nietzsche—The Death of God, Morality, and Self-Creation",
3915 "Introduction",
3916 "James's Pragmatism",
3917 "Freud's Psychology of Human Nature",
3918 "Freud's Discontents",
3919 "A.J. Ayer and Logical Positivism",
3920 "Max Weber and Legitimate Authority",
3921 "Husserl and Phenomenology",
3922 "Dewey's Critique of Traditional Philosophy",
3923 "Heidegger—Dasein and Existenz",
3924 "Wittgenstein and Language Analysis",
3925 "The Frankfurt School",
3926 "Structuralism—Saussure and Lévi-Strauss",
3927 "Introduction",
3928 "Hayek and the Critique of Central Planning",
3929 "Popper—The Open Society and the Philosophy of Science",
3930 "Kuhn's Paradigm Paradigm",
3931 "Quine—Ontological Relativism",
3932 "Habermas—Critical Theory and Communicative Action",
3933 "Rawls's Theory of Justice",
3934 "Derrida and Deconstruction",
3935 "Rorty's Neo-Pragmatism",
3936 "Gouldner—Ideology and the \"New\" Class",
3937 "MacIntyre—The Rationality of Traditions",
3938 "Nozick's Defense of Libertarianism"
3939 ],
3940 "id" : 470,
3941 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-minds-of-the-western-intellectual-tradition-3rd-edition.html"
3942}{
3943 "professor" : "Professor Bob Brier, Ph.D.",
3944 "title" : "Great Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt",
3945 "description" : "No great civilization continues to speak to us like that of ancient Egypt. But what is it about this ancient civilization that still captures our imaginations? What made Egypt special, allowing it to grow, in Professor Bob Brier's words, \"from a scattering of villages across the Nile to the greatest power the world had ever seen\"?",
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3947 "lectures" : [
3948 "King Narmer—The Unification of Egypt",
3949 "Sneferu—The Pyramid Builder",
3950 "Hatshepsut—Female Pharaoh",
3951 "Akhenaten—Heretic Pharaoh",
3952 "Tutankhamen—The Lost Pharaoh",
3953 "Tutankhamen—A Murder Theory",
3954 "Ramses the Great—The Early Years",
3955 "Ramses the Great—The Twilight Years",
3956 "The Great Nubians—Egypt Restored",
3957 "Alexander the Great—Anatomy of a Legend",
3958 "The First Ptolemies—Greek Greatness",
3959 "Cleopatra—The Last Pharaoh"
3960 ],
3961 "id" : 3588,
3962 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-pharaohs-of-ancient-egypt.html"
3963}{
3964 "professor" : "Professor Shaun Nichols, Ph.D.",
3965 "title" : "Great Philosophical Debates: Free Will and Determinism",
3966 "description" : "Do you make your own choices or have circumstances beyond your control already decided your destiny? For thousands of years, this very question has intrigued and perplexed philosophers, scientists, and everyone who thinks deliberately about how they choose to live and act. The answer to this age-old riddle is universally relevant to our lives. The implications of our views on it can affect everything from small choices we make every day to our perspective on criminal justice and capital punishment. From the Stoics to Boethius, from Kant to Hume, from Sartre to contemporary philosophers, great minds have puzzled over this debate for centuries.",
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3968 "lectures" : [
3969 "Free Will and Determinism—The Basic Debate",
3970 "Fate and Karma",
3971 "Divine Predestination and Foreknowledge",
3972 "Causal Determinism",
3973 "Ancient and Medieval Indeterminism",
3974 "Agent Causation",
3975 "Ancient and Classical Compatibilism",
3976 "Contemporary Compatibilism",
3977 "Hard Determinism",
3978 "Free Will Impossibilism",
3979 "The Belief in Free Will",
3980 "Physics and Free Will",
3981 "Neuroscience and Determinism",
3982 "Neuroscience of Conscious Choice",
3983 "Psychology and Free Will",
3984 "Deontological Ethics and Free Will",
3985 "Utilitarianism and Free Will",
3986 "Responsibility and the Emotions",
3987 "Pessimism and Illusionism",
3988 "Optimism and Skepticism",
3989 "The Ethics of Punishment",
3990 "The Power of Punishment",
3991 "Moral Responsibility and Psychopathy",
3992 "The Future of Responsibility"
3993 ],
3994 "id" : 4235,
3995 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-philosophical-debates-free-will-and-determinism.html"
3996}{
3997 "professor" : "Professor Allan J. Lichtman, Ph.D.",
3998 "title" : "Great Presidents",
3999 "description" : "It was one of the most audacious decisions in American history. The founders of the American Republic created a new kind of leadership office. It would be a strong and independent president who commanded the armed forces and led the executive branch of government. Through this act of genius, the founders put in place the rock of the republic.",
4000 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/8/1/8100---packaging_flat_4.1551363482.jpg",
4001 "lectures" : [
4002 "The American Presidency",
4003 "George Washington—The Rise of a Patriot",
4004 "George Washington—American Liberator",
4005 "George Washington—The First President",
4006 "George Washington—American Icon",
4007 "Thomas Jefferson—The Pen of Freedom",
4008 "Thomas Jefferson—Party Leader",
4009 "Thomas Jefferson—Expansionist President",
4010 "Thomas Jefferson—The Agonies of a Second Term",
4011 "Andrew Jackson—Hero of the New Republic",
4012 "Andrew Jackson—The Conqueror Returns",
4013 "Andrew Jackson—The Warrior President",
4014 "Andrew Jackson—A President Defiant",
4015 "James K. Polk—Party Loyalist",
4016 "James K. Polk—The First Dark Horse",
4017 "James K. Polk—Apostle of Manifest Destiny",
4018 "Abraham Lincoln—Frontier Politician",
4019 "Abraham Lincoln—The First Republican President",
4020 "Abraham Lincoln—Wartime Leader",
4021 "Abraham Lincoln—The Martyred President",
4022 "Theodore Roosevelt—Patrician Reformer",
4023 "Theodore Roosevelt—The Cowboy as President",
4024 "Theodore Roosevelt—Progressive Dynamo",
4025 "Theodore Roosevelt—Third-Party Crusader",
4026 "Woodrow Wilson—American Visionary",
4027 "Woodrow Wilson—The Professor as Politician",
4028 "Woodrow Wilson—The World Stage",
4029 "Woodrow Wilson—The Fight for Postwar Peace",
4030 "Franklin D. Roosevelt—Provocative Politician",
4031 "Franklin D. Roosevelt—New Dealer",
4032 "Franklin D. Roosevelt—Into the Storm",
4033 "Franklin D. Roosevelt—President in a World at War",
4034 "Harry S Truman—A Struggle for Success",
4035 "Harry S Truman—Needing America's Prayers",
4036 "Harry S Truman—Winning the Peace",
4037 "Harry S Truman—No Accidental President",
4038 "John F. Kennedy—The Construction of a Politician",
4039 "John F. Kennedy—The Emergence of a President",
4040 "John F. Kennedy—A President in Crisis",
4041 "John F. Kennedy—His Final Challenges",
4042 "Lyndon Johnson—Politician in the Rough",
4043 "Lyndon Johnson—Professional Politician",
4044 "Lyndon Johnson—Building the Great Society",
4045 "Lyndon Johnson—Acrimony at Home and Abroad",
4046 "Ronald Reagan—\"The Gipper\"",
4047 "Ronald Reagan—A Conservative in the White House",
4048 "Ronald Reagan—The Acting President",
4049 "Ronald Reagan—The Teflon President"
4050 ],
4051 "id" : 8100,
4052 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-presidents.html"
4053}{
4054 "professor" : "Professor Steven L. Goldman, Ph.D.",
4055 "title" : "Great Scientific Ideas That Changed the World",
4056 "description" : "Why has science so dramatically altered how we live and how we think about ourselves? What is the greatest scientific idea of all time? According to Professor Steven L. Goldman, one is tempted to speak of scientific discoveries as the source of science's power to be a driver of social change—that scientists have been discovering new truths about nature, and that the change follows from that. But I argue that it is scientific ideas that are responsible for this change. Ideas are the source of science's power—not discoveries.\"",
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4058 "lectures" : [
4059 "Knowledge, Know-How, and Social Change",
4060 "Writing Makes Science Possible",
4061 "Inventing Reason and Knowledge",
4062 "The Birth of Natural Science",
4063 "Mathematics as the Order of Nature",
4064 "The Birth of Techno-Science",
4065 "Universities Relaunch the Idea of Knowledge",
4066 "The Medieval Revolution in Know-How",
4067 "Progress Enters into History",
4068 "The Printed Book—Gutenberg to Galileo",
4069 "Renaissance Painting and Techno-Science",
4070 "Copernicus Moves the Earth",
4071 "The Birth of Modern Science",
4072 "Algebra, Calculus, and Probability",
4073 "Conservation and Symmetry",
4074 "Instruments as Extensions of the Mind",
4075 "Time, Change, and Novelty",
4076 "The Atomic Theory of Matter",
4077 "The Cell Theory of Life",
4078 "The Germ Theory of Disease",
4079 "The Gene Theory of Inheritance",
4080 "Energy Challenges Matter",
4081 "Fields—The Immaterial Becomes Real",
4082 "Relationships Become Physical",
4083 "Evolution as Process Science",
4084 "Statistical Laws Challenge Determinism",
4085 "Techno-Science Comes of Age",
4086 "Institutions Empower Innovation",
4087 "The Quantum Revolution",
4088 "Relativity Redefines Space and Time",
4089 "Reconceiving the Universe, Again",
4090 "The Idea behind the Computer",
4091 "Three Faces of Information",
4092 "Systems, Chaos, and Self-Organization",
4093 "Life as Molecules in Action",
4094 "Great Ideas, Past and Future"
4095 ],
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4097 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-scientific-ideas-that-changed-the-world.html"
4098}{
4099 "professor" : "Professor Malcolm David Eckel, Ph.D.",
4100 "title" : "Great World Religions: Buddhism",
4101 "description" : "Buddhism challenges some of the most important Western ideas about God, human life, and the self. In Buddhism there is no single almighty God who created the world. Instead, Buddhism teaches that all of life is suffering, and there is no permanent self. And it teaches that in accepting that all life is bliss can be achieved in this life.",
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4103 "lectures" : [
4104 "Buddhism as a World Religion",
4105 "The Life of the Buddha",
4106 "“All is Suffering”",
4107 "The Path to Nirvana",
4108 "The Buddhist Community",
4109 "Mahayana Buddhism—the Bodhisattva Ideal",
4110 "Celestial Buddhas and Bodhisattvas",
4111 "Emptiness",
4112 "Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia",
4113 "Buddhism in Tibet",
4114 "Buddhism in China",
4115 "Buddhism in Japan"
4116 ],
4117 "id" : 6105,
4118 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-world-religions-buddhism.html"
4119}{
4120 "professor" : "Professor Luke Timothy Johnson, Ph.D.",
4121 "title" : "Great World Religions: Christianity",
4122 "description" : "As the world's largest religion, with more than two billion members, Christianity is \"one of religion's great success stories,\" notes Professor Luke Timothy Johnson, himself a former Benedictine monk. But Christianity is more than large and popular—it is extremely complex and often highly contradictory.",
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4124 "lectures" : [
4125 "Christianity among World Religions",
4126 "Birth and Expansion",
4127 "Second Century and Self-Definition",
4128 "The Christian Story",
4129 "What Christians Believe",
4130 "The Church and Sacraments",
4131 "Moral Teaching",
4132 "The Radical Edge",
4133 "Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant",
4134 "Christianity and Politics",
4135 "Christianity and Culture",
4136 "Tensions and Possibilities"
4137 ],
4138 "id" : 6101,
4139 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-world-religions-christianity.html"
4140}{
4141 "professor" : "Professor Mark W. Muesse, Ph.D.",
4142 "title" : "Great World Religions: Hinduism",
4143 "description" : "Terms we associate with Hinduism—\"Hinduism,\" \"religion,\" and \"India\"—are all Western labels, terms that for most of history did not accurately reflect the thinking of those who practice this ancient faith. In fact, one of the primary themes of Professor Mark W. Muesse's lectures is the difficulty of studying Hinduism without imposing Western perceptions on it.",
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4145 "lectures" : [
4146 "Hinduism in the World and the World of Hinduism",
4147 "The Early Cultures of India",
4148 "The World of the Veda",
4149 "From the Vedic Tradition to Classical Hinduism",
4150 "Caste",
4151 "Men, Women, and the Stages of Life",
4152 "The Way of Action",
4153 "The Way of Wisdom",
4154 "Seeing God",
4155 "The Way of Devotion",
4156 "The Goddess and Her Devotees",
4157 "Hinduism in the Modern Period"
4158 ],
4159 "id" : 6104,
4160 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-world-religions-hinduism.html"
4161}{
4162 "professor" : "Professor Isaiah M. Gafni, Ph.D.",
4163 "title" : "Great World Religions: Judaism",
4164 "description" : "What is the essence of Judaism? Is it the Ten Commandments, given by God to Israel at Mount Sinai? Or is it the totality of teachings in the Hebrew Bible? Or is it symbolized by something outside the Bible? However Judaism is defined, the beliefs, practices, attitudes, and institutions of Jews through the ages display a striking diversity, despite the fact that all would ascribe to a common heritage.",
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4166 "lectures" : [
4167 "What is Judaism?",
4168 "The Stages of History",
4169 "The Jewish Library",
4170 "The Emergence of Rabbinic Judaism",
4171 "Jewish Worship—Prayer and the Synagogue",
4172 "The Calendar—A Communal Life-Cycle",
4173 "Individual Life-Cycles",
4174 "God and Man; God and Community",
4175 "Philosophers and Mystics",
4176 "The Legal Frameworks of Judaism—Halakha",
4177 "Common Judaism—or a Plurality of Judaisms?",
4178 "Judaism and “Others”"
4179 ],
4180 "id" : 6103,
4181 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-world-religions-judaism.html"
4182}{
4183 "professor" : "Professor Robert Garland, Ph.D.",
4184 "title" : "Greece and Rome: An Integrated History of the Ancient Mediterranean",
4185 "description" : "In the 1st century B.C., Rome's matchless armies consolidated control over the entire Mediterranean world, and Greece lay vanquished along with scores of other formerly independent lands—yet the Roman poet Horace saw something special in Greece when he wrote \"Greece, the captive, made her savage victor captive.\"",
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4187 "lectures" : [
4188 "Who Were the Greeks? Who Were the Romans?",
4189 "Trade and Travel in the Mediterranean",
4190 "Democratic or Republican",
4191 "Law and Order",
4192 "Less than Fully Human",
4193 "Close Encounters, 750–272 B.C.",
4194 "The Velvet Glove, 272–190 B.C.",
4195 "How the Two Polytheisms (Almost) Merged",
4196 "The Iron Fist, 190–146 B.C.",
4197 "The Last Hellenistic Dynasts, 146–31 B.C.",
4198 "Why the Greeks Lost, Why the Romans Won",
4199 "Philhellenism and Hellenophobia",
4200 "The Two Languages",
4201 "Leisure and Entertainment",
4202 "Sex and Sexuality",
4203 "Death and the Afterlife",
4204 "From Mystery Religion to Ruler Cult",
4205 "Greek Cities under Roman Rule",
4206 "Greeks in Rome, Romans in Greece",
4207 "The Hellenism of Augustus",
4208 "Art, Looting, and Reproductions",
4209 "Architecture, Sacred and Secular",
4210 "Science and Technology",
4211 "Disease, Medical Care, and Physicians",
4212 "The Greek Epic and Its Roman Echo",
4213 "Tragedy and Comedy",
4214 "Love Poetry, Satire, History, the Novel",
4215 "Greek Influences on Roman Education",
4216 "Greek Philosophy and Its Roman Advocates",
4217 "Hellenomania from Nero to Hadrian",
4218 "Jews, Greeks, and Romans",
4219 "Christianity's Debt to Greece and Rome",
4220 "The Apotheosis of Athens",
4221 "The Decline of the West",
4222 "The Survival of the East",
4223 "The Enduring Duo"
4224 ],
4225 "id" : 3300,
4226 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/greece-and-rome-an-integrated-history-of-the-ancient-mediterranean.html"
4227}{
4228 "professor" : "Professor John R. Hale, Ph.D.",
4229 "title" : "Greek and Persian Wars",
4230 "description" : "King Leonidas and a tiny contingent of Spartan soldiers—the famed \"300\"—hold the pass of Thermopylae against a powerful and enormous Persian force. It's one those historicial events where truth rivals the epic proportions of myth. Did it all really happen like that? Behind this renowned tale of legendary Greek heroism is another, more intricate story, one that you encounter in The Greek and Persian Wars. Spanning more than two centuries, these historic conflicts forged a new world order, sparking developments in battle strategy, naval technology, world exploration, and art and culture that affect the world even today.",
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4232 "lectures" : [
4233 "The First Encounter",
4234 "Empire Builders—The Persians",
4235 "Intrepid Voyagers—The Greeks",
4236 "The Ionian Revolt",
4237 "From Mount Athos to Marathon",
4238 "Xerxes Prepares for War",
4239 "The Athenians Build a Fleet",
4240 "Heroes at the Pass",
4241 "Battle in the Straits",
4242 "The Freedom Fighters",
4243 "Commemorating the Great War",
4244 "Campaigns of the Delian League",
4245 "Launching a Golden Age",
4246 "Herodotus Invents History",
4247 "Engineering the Fall of Athens",
4248 "Cyrus, Xenophon, and the Ten Thousand",
4249 "The March to the Sea",
4250 "Strange Bedfellows",
4251 "The Panhellenic Dream",
4252 "The Rise of Macedon",
4253 "Father and Son",
4254 "Liberating the Greeks of Asia",
4255 "Who Is the Great King?",
4256 "When East Met West"
4257 ],
4258 "id" : 3356,
4259 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/greek-and-persian-wars.html"
4260}{
4261 "professor" : "Professor Daniel N. Robinson, Ph.D.",
4262 "title" : "Greek Legacy: Classical Origins of the Modern World",
4263 "description" : "Matthew Arnold, English poet and literary critic, observed a century ago when considering our Darwinian ancestor—that \"hairy quadruped with pointed ears and a tail...\"—there seems to have been something in him \"that inclined him to Greek.\" Arnold was suggesting that our basic assumptions about virtually all of the major building blocks of our culture (law, government, religion, science, medicine, drama, architecture, and more) derived ultimately from the ancient Greeks.",
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4265 "lectures" : [
4266 "\"Depth Psychology\" From the Dance to the Drama",
4267 "The Aesthetics of Harmony",
4268 "The Invention of Scholarship",
4269 "Science and the Nature of Things",
4270 "The Hippocratics",
4271 "The Rule of Law",
4272 "Statecraft",
4273 "Ancient Greek Religion",
4274 "Character and Personality",
4275 "The Moral Point of View",
4276 "The City and the Civic Life",
4277 "Perfectionism and the Greek Ideal"
4278 ],
4279 "id" : 464,
4280 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/greek-legacy-classical-origins-of-the-modern-world.html"
4281}{
4282 "professor" : "Professor Elizabeth Vandiver, Ph.D.",
4283 "title" : "Greek Tragedy",
4284 "description" : "Two-and-a-half thousand years after they were written, ancient Greek Dramas such as Eumenides, Oedipus the King, and Trojan Women retain a compelling, almost incantatory power. These plays have attracted focus and reflection from Aristotle, Freud, Nietzsche, and others who Professor Vandiver observes early in the course:",
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4286 "lectures" : [
4287 "Tragedy Defined",
4288 "Democracy, Culture, and Tragedy",
4289 "Roots of a Genre",
4290 "Production and Stagecraft",
4291 "Aeschylus—Creator of an Art Form",
4292 "The Oresteia—Mythic Background",
4293 "The Oresteia—Agamemnon",
4294 "The Oresteia—Libation Bearers and Eumenides",
4295 "A Master of Spectacle",
4296 "The Three Electras",
4297 "The Sophoclean Hero",
4298 "Antigone and Creon",
4299 "Oedipus the King, I",
4300 "Oedipus the King, II",
4301 "Two Tragedians, One Hero",
4302 "Greek Husband, Foreign Wife",
4303 "Phaedra, Hippolytus, and Aphrodite's Wrath",
4304 "Euripides on War and Women",
4305 "Euripides the Anti-Tragedian",
4306 "The Last Plays of Euripides",
4307 "Euripides and the Gods",
4308 "The Last Plays of Sophocles",
4309 "Other Tragedians and a Comedian",
4310 "The Tragic Legacy"
4311 ],
4312 "id" : 217,
4313 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/greek-tragedy.html"
4314}{
4315 "professor" : "Professor Elizabeth Vandiver, Ph.D.",
4316 "title" : "Herodotus: The Father of History",
4317 "description" : "Witness the \"works and wonders\" of the ancient world through the eyes of its first great historian. Herodotus became the first person we know of to see the past in new and fresh ways—not as a distant recess shrouded in legend and rumor, but as something that lies close at hand; as something that immediately affects the here and now; and as a subject whose great personalities and patterns of events can be studied in order to make the reasons behind them as clear as possible.",
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4319 "lectures" : [
4320 "Herodotus and History",
4321 "\"Inquiry\" and the Birth of History",
4322 "Myth, Legend, and Oral Tradition",
4323 "Homeric Epic and the East-West Conflict",
4324 "The Ionian Enlightenment",
4325 "Athens in the Archaic Age",
4326 "Politics and Culture in Fifth-Century Athens",
4327 "Scope, Design, and Organization of the Histories",
4328 "The Beginnings of the Conflict",
4329 "Croesus, Solon, and Human Happiness",
4330 "Cyrus and the Foundation of the Persian Empire",
4331 "Herodotus' Account of Egypt",
4332 "The Ascension of Darius",
4333 "Darius and the Scythians",
4334 "Sparta and the Spartan Way of Life",
4335 "The Ionian Revolt and the Battle of Marathon",
4336 "Xerxes and the Threat to Greece",
4337 "The Battles of Thermopylae and Artemisium",
4338 "The Victory of Greece",
4339 "Persons, Personalities, and Peoples",
4340 "The Gods, Fate, and the Supernatural",
4341 "History or Literature-Or Both?",
4342 "Herodotus, the Peloponnesian War, and Thucydides",
4343 "Aftermath and Influence"
4344 ],
4345 "id" : 2353,
4346 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/herodotus-the-father-of-history.html"
4347}{
4348 "professor" : "Professor Philip Daileader, Ph.D.",
4349 "title" : "High Middle Ages",
4350 "description" : "As the last millennium dawned, Europe didn't amount to much. Illiteracy, starvation, and disease were the norm. In fact, Europe in the year 1000 was one of the world's more stagnant regions—an economically undeveloped, intellectually derivative, and geopolitically passive backwater. Three short centuries later, all this had changed dramatically. A newly invigorated cluster of European societies revived city life, spawned new spiritual and intellectual movements and educational institutions, and began, for reasons both sacred and profane, to expand at the expense of neighbors who traditionally had expanded at Europe's expense.",
4351 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/8/6/869---packaging_flat_4.1551366497.jpg",
4352 "lectures" : [
4353 "Why the Middle Ages?",
4354 "Demography and the Commercial Revolution",
4355 "Those Who Fought—The Nobles",
4356 "The Chivalric Code",
4357 "Feudalism",
4358 "Those Who Worked—The Peasants",
4359 "Those Who Worked—The Townspeople",
4360 "Women in Medieval Society",
4361 "Those Who Prayed—The Monks",
4362 "Francis of Assisi and the Franciscan Movement",
4363 "Heretics and Heresy",
4364 "The Medieval Inquisitions",
4365 "Jews and Christians",
4366 "The Origins of Scholasticism",
4367 "Aquinas and the Problem of Aristotle",
4368 "The First Universities",
4369 "The People's Crusade",
4370 "The Conquest of Jerusalem",
4371 "The Norman Conquest",
4372 "Philip II of France",
4373 "Magna Carta",
4374 "Empire versus Papacy",
4375 "Emperor Frederick II",
4376 "Looking Back, Looking Forward"
4377 ],
4378 "id" : 869,
4379 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/high-middle-ages.html"
4380}{
4381 "professor" : "Professor Bart D. Ehrman, Ph.D., M.Div.",
4382 "title" : "Historical Jesus",
4383 "description" : "Who was Jesus of Nazareth? What was he like? For more than 2,000 years, people and groups of varying convictions have pondered these questions and done their best to answer them. The significance of the subject is apparent. From the late Roman Empire all the way to our own time, no continuously existing institution or belief system has wielded as much influence as Christianity, no figure as much as Jesus.",
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4385 "lectures" : [
4386 "The Many Faces of Jesus",
4387 "One Remarkable Life",
4388 "Scholars Look at the Gospels",
4389 "Fact and Fiction in the Gospels",
4390 "The Birth of the Gospels",
4391 "Some of the Other Gospels",
4392 "The Coptic Gospel of Thomas",
4393 "Other Sources",
4394 "Historical Criteria—Getting Back to Jesus",
4395 "More Historical Criteria",
4396 "The Early Life of Jesus",
4397 "Jesus in His Context",
4398 "Jesus and Roman Rule",
4399 "Jesus the Apocalyptic Prophet",
4400 "The Apocalyptic Teachings of Jesus",
4401 "Other Teachings of Jesus in their Apocalyptic Context",
4402 "The Deeds of Jesus in their Apocalyptic Context",
4403 "Still Other Words and Deeds of Jesus",
4404 "The Controversies of Jesus",
4405 "The Last Days of Jesus",
4406 "The Last Hours of Jesus",
4407 "The Death and Resurrection of Jesus",
4408 "The Afterlife of Jesus",
4409 "The Prophet of the New Millennium"
4410 ],
4411 "id" : 643,
4412 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/historical-jesus.html"
4413}{
4414 "professor" : "Professor Bob Brier, Ph.D.",
4415 "title" : "History of Ancient Egypt",
4416 "description" : "Ancient Egyptian civilization is so grand that our minds sometimes have difficulty adjusting to it. Consider time. Ancient Egyptian civilization lasted 3,000 years, longer than any other on the planet. When the young pharaoh Tutankhamen ruled Egypt, the pyramids of Giza had already been standing well over 1,000 years. When Cleopatra came to power, Tutankhamen had been in his tomb more than 1,000 years.",
4417 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/3/5/350---packaging_flat_4.1551363855.jpg",
4418 "lectures" : [
4419 "Introduction",
4420 "Prehistoric Egypt",
4421 "Ancient Egyptian Thought",
4422 "Napoleon and the Beginnings of Egyptology",
4423 "The Rosetta Stone, and Much More",
4424 "The First Nation in History",
4425 "The Rise of the Old Kingdom",
4426 "Sneferu, the Pyramid Builder",
4427 "The Great Pyramid of Giza",
4428 "The End of the Old Kingdom",
4429 "The First Intermediate Period",
4430 "The Middle Kingdom—Dynasty XI",
4431 "The Middle Kingdom—Dynasty XII",
4432 "The Second Intermediate Period",
4433 "Joseph in Egypt",
4434 "The Beginning of the New Kingdom—The Fabulous XVIIIth Dynasty",
4435 "Queen Hatshepsut",
4436 "Obelisks",
4437 "Tuthmosis III—King At Last",
4438 "The Fabulous XVIIIth Dynasty Rolls On",
4439 "Akhenaten the Heretic Pharaoh",
4440 "The Discovery of Tutankhamen's Tomb",
4441 "The Murder of Tutankhamen—A Theory",
4442 "Medicine—The Necessary Art",
4443 "The End of Dynasty XVIII",
4444 "Mummification—How We Know What We Know",
4445 "What Mummies Tell Us",
4446 "Making a Modern Mummy",
4447 "Dynasty XIX Begins",
4448 "Ramses the Great—The Early Years",
4449 "Ramses the Great—The Later Years",
4450 "The Exodus—Did It Happen?",
4451 "The Decline of Dynasty XIX",
4452 "Dynasty XX—The Decline Continues",
4453 "Ancient Egyptian Magic",
4454 "Dynasty XXI—Egypt Divided",
4455 "Dynasty XXII—Egypt United",
4456 "Dynasty XXV—The Nubians Have Their Day",
4457 "Dynasty XXVI—The Saite Period",
4458 "Dynasty XXVII—The Persians",
4459 "Dynasties XXVIII to XXXI—The Beginning of the End",
4460 "Alexander the Great",
4461 "The First Ptolemies",
4462 "The Middle Ptolemies—The Decline",
4463 "Animal Mummies",
4464 "Cleopatra's Family",
4465 "Cleopatra—The Last Ptolemy",
4466 "The Grand Finale"
4467 ],
4468 "id" : 350,
4469 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/history-of-ancient-egypt.html"
4470}{
4471 "professor" : "Professor Garrett G. Fagan, Ph.D.",
4472 "title" : "History of Ancient Rome",
4473 "description" : "There are many reasons to study ancient Rome. Rome's span was vast. In the regional, restless, and shifting history of continental Europe, the Roman Empire stands as a towering monument to scale and stability. At its height, the Roman Empire, unified in politics and law, stretched from the sands of Syria to the moors of Scotland, and it stood for almost 700 years.",
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4475 "lectures" : [
4476 "Introduction",
4477 "The Sources",
4478 "Pre-Roman Italy and the Etruscans",
4479 "The Foundation of Rome",
4480 "The Kings of Rome",
4481 "Regal Society",
4482 "The Beginnings of the Republic",
4483 "The Struggle of the Orders",
4484 "Roman Expansion in Italy",
4485 "The Roman Confederation in Italy",
4486 "The International Scene on the Eve of Roman Expansion",
4487 "Carthage and the First Punic War",
4488 "The Second Punic (or Hannibalic) War",
4489 "Rome in the Eastern Mediterranean",
4490 "Explaining the Rise of the Roman Empire",
4491 "“The Captured Conqueror”—Rome and Hellenism",
4492 "Governing the Roman Republic, Part I—Senate and Magistrates",
4493 "Governing the Roman Republic, Part II—Popular Assemblies and Provincial Administration",
4494 "The Pressures of Empire",
4495 "The Gracchi Brothers",
4496 "Marius and Sulla",
4497 "\"The Royal Rule of Sulla\"",
4498 "Sulla's Reforms Undone",
4499 "Pompey and Crassus",
4500 "The First Triumvirate",
4501 "Pompey and Caesar",
4502 "\"The Domination of Caesar\"",
4503 "Social and Cultural Life in the Late Republic",
4504 "Antony and Octavian",
4505 "The Second Triumvirate",
4506 "Octavian Emerges Supreme",
4507 "The New Order of Augustus",
4508 "The Imperial Succession",
4509 "The Julio-Claudian Dynasty",
4510 "The Emperor in the Roman World",
4511 "The Third-Century Crisis",
4512 "The Shape of Roman Society",
4513 "Roman Slavery",
4514 "The Family",
4515 "Women in Roman Society",
4516 "An Empire of Cities",
4517 "Public Entertainment, Part I—The Roman Baths and Chariot Racing",
4518 "Public Entertainment, Part II—Gladiatorial Games",
4519 "Roman Paganism",
4520 "The Rise of Christianity",
4521 "The Restoration of Order",
4522 "Constantine and the Late Empire",
4523 "Thoughts on the \"Fall\" of the Roman Empire"
4524 ],
4525 "id" : 340,
4526 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/history-of-ancient-rome.html"
4527}{
4528 "professor" : "Professor Brad S. Gregory, Ph.D.",
4529 "title" : "History of Christianity in the Reformation Era",
4530 "description" : "We are the cultural descendants of the Reformation era, says Professor Brad S. Gregory in these 36 lectures on one of the most tumultuous and consequential periods in all of European history. Regardless of whether we ourselves are religious, says Professor Gregory, our modern preference for belief bolstered by doctrine is \"a long-term legacy of the efforts to educate, to catechize, to indoctrinate, that began in a widespread way during the 16th century.\"",
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4532 "lectures" : [
4533 "Early Modern Christianity—A Larger View",
4534 "The Landscape of Late Medieval Life",
4535 "Late Medieval Christendom—Beliefs, Practices, Institutions I",
4536 "Late Medieval Christendom—Beliefs, Practices, Institutions II",
4537 "Vigorous or Corrupt? Christianity on the Eve of the Reformation",
4538 "Christian Humanism—Erudition, Education, Reform",
4539 "Martin Luther's Road to Reformation",
4540 "The Theology of Martin Luther",
4541 "Huldrych Zwingli—The Early Reformation in Switzerland",
4542 "Profile of a Protest Movement—The Early Reformation in Germany",
4543 "The Peasants' War of 1524-1525",
4544 "The Emergence of Early Anabaptism",
4545 "The Spread of Early Protestantism—France, the Low Countries, and England",
4546 "The Henrician Reformation in England",
4547 "Defending the Traditional Order—Early Catholic Response",
4548 "The Rise and Fall of the Kingdom of Münster",
4549 "John Calvin and the Reformation in Geneva",
4550 "Catholic Renewal and Reform in Italy",
4551 "The Growth and Embattlement of Protestantism",
4552 "Calvinism in France and the Low Countries",
4553 "John Knox and the Scottish Reformation",
4554 "Menno Simons and the Dutch Mennonites",
4555 "The Council of Trent",
4556 "Roman Catholicism after Trent",
4557 "Going Global—Catholic Missions",
4558 "The French Wars of Religion",
4559 "Religion and Politics in the Dutch Revolt",
4560 "Elizabethan England—Protestants, Puritans, and Catholics",
4561 "Confessionalization in Germany",
4562 "France and the Low Countries in the 1600s",
4563 "The Thirty Years' War—Religion and Politics",
4564 "Revolution and Restoration in England",
4565 "The Impact of the Reformations—Changes in Society and Culture",
4566 "Were the Reformations a Success?",
4567 "Reflections on Religious Change and Conflict",
4568 "Expectations and Ironies"
4569 ],
4570 "id" : 690,
4571 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/history-of-christianity-in-the-reformation-era.html"
4572}{
4573 "professor" : "Professor Robert Bucholz, D.Phil.",
4574 "title" : "History of England from the Tudors to the Stuarts",
4575 "description" : "During the 229-year period from 1485 to 1714, England transformed itself from a minor feudal state into what has been called \"the first modern society,\" and emerged as the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the world. Those years hold a huge story. The English people survived repeated epidemics and famines, one failed invasion and two successful ones, two civil wars, a series of violent religious reformations and counter-reformations, and confrontations with two of the most powerful monarchs on Earth, Louis XIV of France and Philip II of Spain.",
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4577 "lectures" : [
4578 "England 1485–1714, the First Modern Country",
4579 "The Land and Its People in 1485—I",
4580 "The Land and Its People in 1485—II",
4581 "The Land and Its People in 1485—III",
4582 "Medieval Prelude—1377–1455",
4583 "Medieval Prelude—1455–85",
4584 "Establishing the Tudor Dynasty—1485–97",
4585 "Establishing the Tudor Dynasty—1497–1509",
4586 "Young King Hal—1509–27",
4587 "The King's Great Matter—1527–30",
4588 "The Break from Rome—1529–36",
4589 "A Tudor Revolution—1536-47",
4590 "The Last Years of Henry VIII—1540–47",
4591 "Edward VI—1547-53",
4592 "Mary I—1553-58",
4593 "Young Elizabeth—1558",
4594 "The Elizabethan Settlement—1558–68",
4595 "Set in a Dangerous World—1568–88",
4596 "Heart and Stomach of a Queen—1588–1603",
4597 "The Land and Its People in 1603",
4598 "Private Life—The Elite",
4599 "Private Life—The Commoners",
4600 "The Ties that Bound",
4601 "Order and Disorder",
4602 "Towns, Trade, and Colonization",
4603 "London",
4604 "The Elizabethan and Jacobean Age",
4605 "Establishing the Stuart Dynasty—1603–25",
4606 "The Ascendancy of Buckingham—1614–28",
4607 "Religion and Local Control—1628–37",
4608 "Crisis of the Three Kingdoms—1637–42",
4609 "The Civil Wars—1642–49",
4610 "The Search for a Settlement—1649–53",
4611 "Cromwellian England—1653–60",
4612 "The Restoration Settlement—1660–70",
4613 "The Failure of the Restoration—1670–78",
4614 "The Popish Plot and Exclusion—1678–85",
4615 "A Catholic Restoration? 1685–88",
4616 "The Glorious Revolution—1688–89",
4617 "King William's War—1689–92",
4618 "King William's War—1692–1702",
4619 "Queen Anne and the Rage of Party—1702",
4620 "Queen Anne's War—1702–10",
4621 "Queen Anne's Peace—1710–14",
4622 "Hanoverian Epilogue—1714–30",
4623 "The Land and Its People in 1714—I",
4624 "The Land and Its People in 1714—II",
4625 "The Meaning of English History—1485–1714"
4626 ],
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4628 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/history-of-england-from-the-tudors-to-the-stuarts.html"
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4630 "professor" : "Professor Thomas Childers, Ph.D.",
4631 "title" : "History of Hitler's Empire, 2nd Edition",
4632 "description" : "Know thy enemy. That's what the wisdom of history teaches us. And Adolf Hitler was surely the greatest enemy ever faced by modern civilization. Over half a century later, the horror and fascination still linger. No one is better able to explain the unexplainable about this man and his movement than Professor Thomas Childers. In these lectures, you will see what great teaching is all about.",
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4634 "lectures" : [
4635 "The Third Reich, Hitler, and the 20th Century",
4636 "The First World War and Its Legacy",
4637 "The Weimar Republic and the Rise of the Nazi Party",
4638 "The Twenties and the Great Depression",
4639 "The Nazi Breakthrough",
4640 "Hitler's Assumption of Power",
4641 "Racial Policy and the Totalitarian State",
4642 "Hitler's Foreign Policy",
4643 "Munich and the Triumph of National Socialism",
4644 "War in the West, War in the East",
4645 "Holocaust—Hitler's War Against the Jews",
4646 "The Final Solution"
4647 ],
4648 "id" : 805,
4649 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/history-of-hitler-s-empire-2nd-edition.html"
4650}{
4651 "professor" : "Professor Mark Steinberg, Ph.D.",
4652 "title" : "History of Russia: From Peter the Great to Gorbachev",
4653 "description" : "It’s difficult to imagine a nation with a history more compelling for Americans than Russia. Yet many Americans have never had the opportunity to study Russia in depth, and to see how the forces of history came together to shape a future so different from the dreams of most ordinary Russian people, eager to see their nation embrace Western values of progress, human rights, and justice.",
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4655 "lectures" : [
4656 "Understanding the Russian Past",
4657 "The Russia of Peter the Great's Childhood",
4658 "Peter the Great's Revolution",
4659 "The Age of Empresses—Catherine the Great",
4660 "Social Rebellion—The Purgachev Uprising",
4661 "Moral Rebellion—Nikolai Novikov",
4662 "Alexander I—Imagining Reform",
4663 "The Decembrist Rebellion",
4664 "Nicholas I—Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality",
4665 "Alexander Pushkin, Russia's National Poet",
4666 "The Birth of the Intelligentsia",
4667 "Westernizers—Vissarion Belinskii",
4668 "Alexander II and the Great Reforms",
4669 "\"Nihilists\"",
4670 "Populists and Marxists",
4671 "Paths to Revolution—Lenin and Martov",
4672 "Lev Tolstoy",
4673 "The Reign of Alexander III",
4674 "Nicholas II, The Last Tsar",
4675 "The Revolution of 1905",
4676 "Peasant Life and Culture",
4677 "The Modern City and Its Discontents",
4678 "Fin-de-Siècle Culture—Decadence and Iconoclasm",
4679 "Fin-de-Siècle Culture—The Religious Renaissance",
4680 "War and Revolution",
4681 "Democratic Russia—1917",
4682 "Bolsheviks in Power",
4683 "Civil War",
4684 "Paths to Socialism—the 1920s",
4685 "Joseph Stalin",
4686 "Stalin's Revolution",
4687 "Joy and Terror—Society and Culture in the 1930s",
4688 "The \"Great Patriotic War\"",
4689 "The Soviet Union After Stalin",
4690 "Private and Public Dissidence",
4691 "Mikhail Gorbachev—Perestroika and Glasnost"
4692 ],
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4694 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/history-of-russia-from-peter-the-great-to-gorbachev.html"
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4696 "professor" : "Professor Frederick Gregory, Ph.D.",
4697 "title" : "History of Science: 1700-1900",
4698 "description" : "In the period 1700-1900, kings and empires rose and fell, but science conquered all, taking the world by storm. Yet, as the 1700s began, the mysteries of the universe were pondered by \"natural philosophers\"—the term \"scientist\" didn't even exist until the mid 19th century—whose explanations couldn't help but be influenced by the religious thought and political and social contexts that shaped their world.",
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4700 "lectures" : [
4701 "Science in the 18th and 19th Centuries",
4702 "Consolidating Newton's Achievement",
4703 "Theories of the Earth",
4704 "Grappling with Rock Formations",
4705 "Alchemy under Pressure",
4706 "Lavoisier and the New French Chemistry",
4707 "The Classification of Living Things",
4708 "How the Embryo Develops",
4709 "Medical Healers and Their Roles",
4710 "Mesmerism, Science, and the French Revolution",
4711 "Explaining Electricity",
4712 "The Amazing Achievements of Galvani and Volta",
4713 "Biology is Born",
4714 "Alternative Visions of Natural Science",
4715 "A World of Prehistoric Beasts",
4716 "Evolution French Style",
4717 "The Catastrophist Synthesis",
4718 "Exploring the World",
4719 "A Victorian Sensation",
4720 "The Making of The Origin of Species",
4721 "Troubles with Darwin's Theory",
4722 "Science, Life, and Disease",
4723 "Human Society and the Struggle for Existence",
4724 "Whither God?",
4725 "Forces, Forces Everywhere",
4726 "Electromagnetism Changes Everything",
4727 "French Insights About Heat",
4728 "New Institutions of Natural Science",
4729 "The Conservation of What?",
4730 "Culture Wars and Thermodynamics",
4731 "Scientific Materialism at Mid-Century",
4732 "The Mechanics of Molecules",
4733 "Astronomical Achievement",
4734 "The Extra-Terrestrial Life Fiasco",
4735 "Catching Up With Light",
4736 "The End of Science?"
4737 ],
4738 "id" : 1210,
4739 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/history-of-science-1700-1900.html"
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4741 "professor" : "Professor Lawrence M. Principe, Ph.D.",
4742 "title" : "History of Science: Antiquity to 1700",
4743 "description" : "\"All human beings, by nature, desire to know.\" —Aristotle, The Metaphysics. For well over 2,000 years, much of our fundamental \"desire to know\" has focused on the area we now call science. In fact, our commitment to science and technology has been so profound that these now stand as probably the most powerful of all influences on human culture.",
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4745 "lectures" : [
4746 "Beginning the Journey",
4747 "Babylonians, Egyptians, and Greeks",
4748 "The Presocratics",
4749 "Plato and the Pythagoreans",
4750 "Plato's Cosmos",
4751 "Aristotle's View of the Natural World",
4752 "Aristotelian Cosmology and Physics",
4753 "Hellenistic Natural Philosophy",
4754 "Greek Astronomy from Eudoxus to Ptolemy",
4755 "The Roman Contributions",
4756 "Roman Versions of Greek Science and Education",
4757 "The End of the Classical World",
4758 "Early Christianity and Science",
4759 "The Rise of Islam and Islamic Science",
4760 "Islamic Astronomy, Mathematics, and Optics",
4761 "Alchemy, Medicine, and Late Islamic Culture",
4762 "The Latin West Reawakens",
4763 "Natural Philosophy at School and University",
4764 "Aristotle and Medieval Scholasticism",
4765 "The Science of Creation",
4766 "Science in the Orders",
4767 "Medieval Latin Alchemy and Astrology",
4768 "Medieval Physics and Earth Sciences",
4769 "The Middle Ages and the Renaissance",
4770 "Renaissance Natural Magic",
4771 "Copernicus and Calendrical Reform",
4772 "Renaissance Technology",
4773 "Tycho, Kepler, and Galileo",
4774 "The New Physics",
4775 "Voyages of Discovery and Natural History",
4776 "Mechanical Philosophy and Revised Atomism",
4777 "Mechanism and Vitalism",
4778 "Seventeenth-Century Chemistry",
4779 "The Force of Isaac Newton",
4780 "The Rise of Scientific Societies",
4781 "How Science Develops"
4782 ],
4783 "id" : 1200,
4784 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/history-of-science-antiquity-to-1700.html"
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4786 "professor" : "Professor Bart D. Ehrman, Ph.D., M.Div.",
4787 "title" : "History of the Bible: The Making of the New Testament Canon",
4788 "description" : "The New Testament stands unchallenged, in the words of Professor Bart D. Ehrman, not only as the \"'bestseller' of all time,\" but also as the most important \"book—or collection of books—in the history of Western civilization.\"",
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4790 "lectures" : [
4791 "The New Testament—An Overview",
4792 "Paul—Our Earliest Christian Author",
4793 "The Pauline Epistles",
4794 "The Problem of Pseudonymity",
4795 "The Beginnings of the Gospel Traditions",
4796 "The Earliest Gospels",
4797 "The Other Gospels",
4798 "Apocalypticism and the Apocalypse of John",
4799 "The Copyists Who Gave Us Scripture",
4800 "Authority in the Early Church",
4801 "The Importance of Interpretation",
4802 "When Did the Canon Get Finalized?"
4803 ],
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4805 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/history-of-the-bible-the-making-of-the-new-testament-canon.html"
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4807 "professor" : "Professor Seth Lerer, Ph.D.",
4808 "title" : "History of the English Language, 2nd Edition",
4809 "description" : "Sixteen centuries ago a wave of settlers from northern Europe came to the British Isles speaking a mix of Germanic dialects thick with consonants and complex grammatical forms. Today we call that dialect Old English, the ancestor of the language nearly one in five people in the world speaks every day.",
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4811 "lectures" : [
4812 "Introduction to the Study of Language",
4813 "The Historical Study of Language",
4814 "Indo-European and the Prehistory of English",
4815 "Reconstructing Meaning and Sound",
4816 "Historical Linguistics and Studying Culture",
4817 "The Beginnings of English",
4818 "The Old English Worldview",
4819 "Did the Normans Really Conquer English?",
4820 "What Did the Normans Do to English?",
4821 "Chaucer's English",
4822 "Dialect Representations in Middle English",
4823 "Medieval Attitudes toward Language",
4824 "The Return of English as a Standard",
4825 "The Great Vowel Shift and Modern English",
4826 "The Expanding English Vocabulary",
4827 "Early Modern English Syntax and Grammar",
4828 "Renaissance Attitudes toward Teaching English",
4829 "Shakespeare—Drama, Grammar, Pronunciation",
4830 "Shakespeare—Poetry, Sound, Sense",
4831 "The Bible in English",
4832 "Samuel Johnson and His Dictionary",
4833 "New Standards in English",
4834 "Dictionaries and Word Histories",
4835 "Values, Words, and Modernity",
4836 "The Beginnings of American English",
4837 "American Language from Webster to Mencken",
4838 "American Rhetoric from Jefferson to Lincoln",
4839 "The Language of the American Self",
4840 "American Regionalism",
4841 "American Dialects in Literature",
4842 "The Impact of African-American English",
4843 "An Anglophone World",
4844 "The Language of Science",
4845 "The Science of Language",
4846 "Linguistics and Politics in Language Study",
4847 "Conclusions and Provocations"
4848 ],
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4850 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/history-of-the-english-language-2nd-edition.html"
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4852 "professor" : "Professor Peter Irons, Ph.D.,M.A., J.D.",
4853 "title" : "History of the Supreme Court",
4854 "description" : "For more than two centuries, the Supreme Court has exerted extraordinary influence over the way we Americans live our daily lives. The Court has defined the limits of our speech and actions since its first meeting in 1790, adding to our history books names such as John Marshall, Louis Brandeis, Hugo Black, Earl Warren, Thurgood Marshall, Warren Burger, William Rehnquist, and many others.",
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4856 "lectures" : [
4857 "Personality and Principle",
4858 "Shaping the Constitution and the Court",
4859 "Ratification and the Bill of Rights",
4860 "John Marshall Takes Control",
4861 "Impeachment, Contract, and Federal Power",
4862 "Roger Taney Takes Control",
4863 "\"A Small Pleasant-Looking Negro\"",
4864 "The Civil War Amendments",
4865 "\"Separate but Equal\"",
4866 "Two Justices from Boston",
4867 "The Laissez-Faire Court",
4868 "\"Clear and Present Danger\"",
4869 "The Taft Court and the Twenties",
4870 "Wins and Losses for New Deal Laws",
4871 "\"Court Packing\" and Constitutional Revolution",
4872 "The New Dealers Take Control",
4873 "\"Beyond the Reach of Majorities\"",
4874 "Pearl Harbor and Panic",
4875 "The Supreme Court and the Communist Party",
4876 "Thurgood Marshall—Lawyer and Justice",
4877 "Five Jim Crow Schools and Five Cases",
4878 "The Hearts and Minds of Black Children",
4879 "\"War Against the Constitution\"",
4880 "Earl Warren—Politician to Chief Justice",
4881 "\"We Beg Thy Blessings\"",
4882 "\"You Have the Right to Remain Silent\"",
4883 "The Warren Court Reshapes the Constitution",
4884 "Earl Warren Leaves, Warren Burger Arrives",
4885 "\"A Right to Privacy\"",
4886 "From Abortion to Watergate",
4887 "The Court Faces Affirmative Action",
4888 "Down from the Pedestal, Out of the Closet",
4889 "Burning Flags and Burning Crosses",
4890 "Prayer and Abortion Return to the Court",
4891 "One Vote Decides Two Crucial Cases",
4892 "Looking Back and Looking Ahead"
4893 ],
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4895 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/history-of-the-supreme-court.html"
4896}{
4897 "professor" : "Professor Timothy Taylor, M.Econ.",
4898 "title" : "History of the U.S. Economy in the 20th Century",
4899 "description" : "When Professor Timothy Taylor, managing editor of the prestigious Journal of Economic Perspectives, tells you that the stock market crash of 1929 was not a substantial cause of the Great Depression and that F.D.R.'s New Deal may have actually slowed economic recovery, he speaks with authority and credibility.",
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4901 "lectures" : [
4902 "The Curtain Opens on the 20th Century",
4903 "Big Government Is Conceived—Income Tax, the Federal Reserve, World War I",
4904 "The Roaring 1920s",
4905 "The Depression Decade of the 1930s",
4906 "The 1940s—World War II and its Aftermath",
4907 "The Quiet Boom of the 1950s",
4908 "The 1960s and the End of Certainty",
4909 "Stagflation and the 1970s",
4910 "A Decade of Debt—The 1980s",
4911 "Inequality and Insecurity in the 1990s"
4912 ],
4913 "id" : 529,
4914 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/history-of-the-u-s-economy-in-the-20th-century.html"
4915}{
4916 "professor" : "Professor Grant L. Voth, Ph.D.",
4917 "title" : "History of World Literature",
4918 "description" : "The History of World Literature",
4919 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/2/3/2300---packaging_flat_4.1551364338.jpg",
4920 "lectures" : [
4921 "Stories and Storytellers",
4922 "The Epic of Gilgamesh",
4923 "The Hebrew Bible",
4924 "Homer's Iliad",
4925 "Homer's Odyssey",
4926 "Chinese Classical Literature",
4927 "Greek Tragedy",
4928 "Virgil's Aeneid",
4929 "Bhagavad Gita",
4930 "The New Testament",
4931 "Beowulf",
4932 "Indian Stories",
4933 "T'ang Poetry",
4934 "Early Japanese Poetry",
4935 "The Tale of Genji",
4936 "Inferno, from Dante's Divine Comedy",
4937 "Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales",
4938 "1001 Nights",
4939 "Wu Ch'eng-en's Monkey",
4940 "The Heptameron",
4941 "Shakespeare",
4942 "Cervantes's Don Quixote",
4943 "Molière's Plays",
4944 "Voltaire's Candide",
4945 "Cao Xueqin's The Story of the Stone",
4946 "Goethe's Faust",
4947 "Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights",
4948 "Pushkin's Eugene Onegin",
4949 "Flaubert's Madame Bovary",
4950 "Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground",
4951 "Twain's Huckleberry Finn",
4952 "Dickinson's Poetry",
4953 "Ibsen and Chekhov—Realist Drama",
4954 "Rabindranath Tagore's Stories and Poems",
4955 "Higuchi Ichiyō's \"Child's Play\"",
4956 "Proust's Remembrance of Things Past",
4957 "Joyce's Dubliners",
4958 "Kafka's \"The Metamorphosis\"",
4959 "Pirandello's Six Characters",
4960 "Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan",
4961 "Anna Akhmatova's Requiem",
4962 "Kawabata Yasunari's Snow Country",
4963 "Faulkner—Two Stories and a Novel",
4964 "Naguib Mahfouz's The Cairo Trilogy",
4965 "Achebe's Things Fall Apart",
4966 "Beckett's Plays",
4967 "Borges's Labyrinths",
4968 "Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories"
4969 ],
4970 "id" : 2300,
4971 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/history-of-world-literature.html"
4972}{
4973 "professor" : "Professor Robert Greenberg, Ph.D.",
4974 "title" : "How to Listen to and Understand Great Music, 3rd Edition",
4975 "description" : "Learning how to appreciate the unmatched beauty, genius, and power of concert music can permanently enrich your life. Why is this so? As award-winning composer and Professor Robert Greenberg explains, \"Music, the most abstract and sublime of all the arts, is capable of transmitting an unbelievable amount of expressive, historical, and even philosophical information to us, provided that our antennas are up and pointed in the right direction. A little education goes a long way to vitalizing and rendering relevant a body of music that many feel is beyond their grasp.",
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4977 "lectures" : [
4978 "Music as a Mirror",
4979 "Sources—The Ancient World and the Early Church",
4980 "The Middle Ages",
4981 "Introduction to the Renaissance",
4982 "The Renaissance Mass",
4983 "The Madrigal",
4984 "An Introduction to the Baroque Era",
4985 "Style Features of Baroque-era Music",
4986 "National Styles—Italy and Germany",
4987 "Fugue",
4988 "Baroque Opera, Part 1",
4989 "Baroque Opera, Part 2",
4990 "The Oratorio",
4991 "The Lutheran Church Cantata",
4992 "Passacaglia",
4993 "Ritornello Form and the Baroque Concerto",
4994 "The Enlightenment and an Introduction to the Classical Era",
4995 "The Viennese Classical Style, Homophony, and the Cadence",
4996 "Classical-era Form—Theme and Variations",
4997 "Classical-era Form—Minuet and Trio: Baroque Antecedents",
4998 "Classical-era Form—Minuet and Trio Form",
4999 "Classical-era Form—Rondo Form",
5000 "Classical-era Form—Sonata Form, Part 1",
5001 "Classical-era Form—Sonata Form, Part 2",
5002 "Classical-era Form—Sonata Form, Part 3",
5003 "The Symphony—Music for Every Person",
5004 "The Solo Concerto",
5005 "Classical-era Opera—The Rise of Opera Buffa",
5006 "Classical-era Opera, Part 2—Mozart and the Operatic Ensemble",
5007 "The French Revolution and an Introduction to Beethoven",
5008 "Beethoven's Symphony no. 5 in C Minor, op. 67, Part 1",
5009 "Beethoven's Symphony no. 5 in C Minor, op. 67, Part 2",
5010 "Introduction to Romanticism",
5011 "Formal Challenges and Solutions in Early Romantic Music",
5012 "The Program Symphony—Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, Part 1",
5013 "The Program Symphony—Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, Part 2",
5014 "19th-Century Italian Opera—Bel Canto Opera",
5015 "19th-Century Italian Opera—Giuseppe Verdi",
5016 "19th-Century German Opera—Nationalism and Experimentation",
5017 "19th-Century German Opera—Richard Wagner",
5018 "The Concert Overture, Part 1",
5019 "The Concert Overture, Part 2",
5020 "Romantic-era Musical Nationalism",
5021 "Russian Nationalism",
5022 "An Introduction to Early 20th-Century Modernism",
5023 "Early 20th-Century Modernism—Claude Debussy",
5024 "Early 20th-Century Modernism—Igor Stravinsky",
5025 "Early 20th-Century Modernism-Arnold Schonberg"
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5028 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/how-to-listen-to-and-understand-great-music-3rd-edition.html"
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5030 "professor" : "Professor Robert Greenberg, Ph.D.",
5031 "title" : "How to Listen to and Understand Opera",
5032 "description" : "For more than 400 years, opera has been one of the most popular performing arts. Geniuses—Monteverdi, Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Puccini—produced some of the landmark artistic achievements of all time in this form. With Professor Robert Greenberg to show you how, you can learn to understand, appreciate—even to love—opera in just 24 hours of lectures that are a pleasure to hear.",
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5034 "lectures" : [
5035 "Introduction and Words and Music, I",
5036 "Introduction and Words and Music, II",
5037 "A Brief History of Vocal Expression in Music, I",
5038 "A Brief History of Vocal Expression in Music, II",
5039 "Invention of Opera and Monteverdi's Orfeo, I",
5040 "Invention of Opera and Monteverdi's Orfeo, II",
5041 "Invention of Opera and Monteverdi's Orfeo, III",
5042 "Invention of Opera and Monteverdi's Orfeo, IV",
5043 "The Growth of Opera, the Development of Italian Opera Seria, and Mozart's Idomeneo, I",
5044 "The Growth of Opera, the Development of Italian Opera Seria, and Mozart's Idomeneo, II",
5045 "The Growth of Opera, the Development of Italian Opera Seria, and Mozart's Idomeneo, III",
5046 "The Growth of Opera, the Development of Italian Opera Seria, and Mozart's Idomeneo, IV",
5047 "The Rise of Opera Buffa and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, I",
5048 "The Rise of Opera Buffa and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, II",
5049 "The Rise of Opera Buffa and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, III",
5050 "The Rise of Opera Buffa and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, IV",
5051 "The Bel Canto Style and Rossini's The Barber of Seville, I",
5052 "The Bel Canto Style and Rossini's The Barber of Seville, II",
5053 "Verdi and Otello, I",
5054 "Verdi and Otello, II",
5055 "Verdi and Otello, III",
5056 "Verdi and Otello, IV",
5057 "French Opera, I",
5058 "French Opera, II",
5059 "German Opera Comes of Age",
5060 "Richard Wagner and Tristan und Isolde, I",
5061 "Richard Wagner and Tristan und Isolde, II",
5062 "Late Romantic German Opera—Richard Strauss and Salome",
5063 "Russian Opera, I",
5064 "Russian Opera, II",
5065 "Verismo, Puccini, and Tosca, I",
5066 "Verismo, Puccini, and Tosca, II"
5067 ],
5068 "id" : 740,
5069 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/how-to-listen-to-and-understand-opera.html"
5070}{
5071 "professor" : "Professor David M. Meyer, Ph.D.",
5072 "title" : "Experiencing Hubble: Understanding the Greatest Images of the Universe",
5073 "description" : "A few hundred miles above Earth, there is a remarkable telescope with a crystal-clear view across the universe. For two decades, the Hubble Space Telescope has been amassing discoveries that rival those of history's greatest scientists and explorers, making it the most important and productive scientific instrument ever built.",
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5075 "lectures" : [
5076 "The Rationale for a Space Telescope",
5077 "Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Jupiter",
5078 "The Sagittarius Star Cloud",
5079 "The Star Factory inside the Eagle Nebula",
5080 "The Cat's Eye Nebula—A Stellar Demise",
5081 "The Crab Nebula—A Supernova's Aftermath",
5082 "The Sombrero Galaxy—An Island Universe",
5083 "Hubble's View of Galaxies Near and Far",
5084 "The Antennae Galaxies—A Cosmic Collision",
5085 "Abell 2218—A Massive Gravitational Lens",
5086 "The Hubble Ultra Deep Field",
5087 "Hubble's Legacy and Beyond"
5088 ],
5089 "id" : 268,
5090 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/experiencing-hubble-understanding-the-greatest-images-of-the-universe.html"
5091}{
5092 "professor" : "Professor Brian M. Fagan, Ph.D.",
5093 "title" : "Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations",
5094 "description" : "Where do we come from? How did our ancestors settle this planet? How did the great historic civilizations of the world develop? How does a past so shadowy that it has to be painstakingly reconstructed from fragmentary, largely unwritten records nonetheless make us who and what we are?",
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5096 "lectures" : [
5097 "Introducing Human Prehistory",
5098 "In the Beginning",
5099 "Our Earliest Ancestors",
5100 "The First Human Diaspora",
5101 "The First Europeans",
5102 "The Neanderthals",
5103 "The Origins of Homo sapiens sapiens",
5104 "The Great Diaspora",
5105 "The World of the Cro-Magnons",
5106 "Artists and Mammoth Hunters",
5107 "The First Americans",
5108 "The Paleo-Indians and Afterward",
5109 "After the Ice Age",
5110 "The First Farmers",
5111 "Why Farming?",
5112 "The First European Farmers",
5113 "Farming in Asia and Settling the Pacific",
5114 "The Story of Maize",
5115 "The Origins of States and Civilization",
5116 "Sumerian Civilization",
5117 "Ancient Egyptian Civilization to the Old Kingdom",
5118 "Ancient Egypt—Middle and New Kingdoms",
5119 "The Minoan Civilization of Crete",
5120 "The Eastern Mediterranean World",
5121 "The Harappan Civilization of South Asia",
5122 "South and Southeast Asia",
5123 "Africa—A World of Interconnectedness",
5124 "The Origins of Chinese Civilization",
5125 "China—Zhou to the Han",
5126 "Southeast Asian Civilizations",
5127 "Pueblos and Moundbuilders in North America",
5128 "Ancient Maya Civilization",
5129 "Highland Mesoamerican Civilization",
5130 "The Origins of Andean Civilization",
5131 "The Inka and Their Predecessors",
5132 "Epilogue"
5133 ],
5134 "id" : 380,
5135 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/human-prehistory-and-the-first-civilizations.html"
5136}{
5137 "professor" : "Professor Pamela Radcliff, Ph.D.",
5138 "title" : "Interpreting the 20th Century: The Struggle Over Democracy",
5139 "description" : "The 20th century transformed the political, social, and economic structures of the world in ways no one could have imagined as the 1800s came to a close. It was a time of intense and rapid change that stretches the capacity of the imagination: first flight and space flight, the Manhattan Project and the Welfare State, Nietzsche and Freud, the Great Depression and inflation, moving pictures and home computers, the Cold War and terrorism—and war and peace.",
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5141 "lectures" : [
5142 "Framing the 20th Century",
5143 "The Opening Act—World War I",
5144 "Framing the Peace—The Paris Peace Treaties",
5145 "Intellectual Foundations—Nietzsche and Freud",
5146 "Art and the Post-War \"Crisis of Meaning\"",
5147 "Gender Crisis—The \"Woman Question\"",
5148 "The Origins of \"Mass Society\"",
5149 "Defining Mass Society and Its Consequences",
5150 "Crisis of Capitalism—The Great Depression",
5151 "Communist Ideology—From Marx to Lenin",
5152 "The Rise of Fascism",
5153 "Communist Revolution in Russia",
5154 "The Totalitarian State? Nazi Germany",
5155 "The Totalitarian State? The Soviet Union",
5156 "China—The Legacy of Imperialism",
5157 "The Chinese Revolution",
5158 "India—The Legacy of Imperialism",
5159 "India—The Road to Independence",
5160 "Mexico—The Roots of Revolution",
5161 "The Mexican Revolution and Its Consequences",
5162 "Japan—The Path to Modernization",
5163 "Japan—A New Imperial Power",
5164 "The Pacific War",
5165 "The European War",
5166 "The Holocaust",
5167 "Existentialism in Post-War Europe",
5168 "Origins of the Cold War",
5169 "The Cold War in American Society",
5170 "Science and the State in Cold War America",
5171 "The Welfare State",
5172 "The Process of Decolonization",
5173 "Challenges for Post-Colonial Societies",
5174 "Competing Nationalisms—The Middle East",
5175 "Development Models—Communist China",
5176 "Development Models—Democratic India",
5177 "The Authoritarian Development State—Japan",
5178 "The Japanese Model—Available for Export?",
5179 "Latin America—Dictatorship and Democracy",
5180 "Hard Cases—Africa",
5181 "An African Case Study—Nigeria",
5182 "A Generation of Protests—Civil Rights",
5183 "A Generation of Protests—1968",
5184 "Global Women",
5185 "The Rise of Fundamentalist Politics",
5186 "Communism—From Reform to Collapse, 1956–90",
5187 "The \"End of History\"?",
5188 "Globalization and Its Challenges",
5189 "A New World Order?"
5190 ],
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5192 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/interpreting-the-20th-century-the-struggle-over-democracy.html"
5193}{
5194 "professor" : "Professor David Roochnik, Ph.D.",
5195 "title" : "Introduction to Greek Philosophy",
5196 "description" : "The first philosophers in Western history—the ancient Greeks—asked the most fundamental questions about human beings and their relationship to the world. More than 2,500 years later, the issues they pondered continue to challenge, fascinate, and instruct us. Is reality stable and permanent or is it always changing? Are ethical values like justice and courage relative? Or are values \"absolute\"—simply and forever right and true? What is justice? What is happiness? How shall we best live our lives?",
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5198 "lectures" : [
5199 "A Dialectical Approach to Greek Philosophy",
5200 "From Myth to Philosophy—Hesiod and Thales",
5201 "The Milesians and the Quest for Being",
5202 "The Great Intrusion—Heraclitus",
5203 "Parmenides—The Champion of Being",
5204 "Reconciling Heraclitus and Parmenides",
5205 "The Sophists—Protagoras, the First \"Humanist\"",
5206 "Socrates",
5207 "An Introduction to Plato's Dialogues",
5208 "Plato versus the Sophists, I",
5209 "Plato versus the Sophists, II",
5210 "Plato's Forms, I",
5211 "Plato's Forms, II",
5212 "Plato versus the Presocratics",
5213 "The Republic—The Political Implications of the Forms",
5214 "Final Reflections on Plato",
5215 "Aristotle—\"The\" Philosopher",
5216 "Aristotle's Physics—What is Nature?",
5217 "Aristotle's Physics—The Four Causes",
5218 "Why Plants Have Souls",
5219 "Aristotle's Hierarchical Cosmos",
5220 "Aristotle's Teleological Politics",
5221 "Aristotle's Teleological Ethics",
5222 "The Philosophical Life"
5223 ],
5224 "id" : 4477,
5225 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/introduction-to-greek-philosophy.html"
5226}{
5227 "professor" : "Professor Shai Cherry, Ph.D.",
5228 "title" : "Introduction to Judaism",
5229 "description" : "What could be simpler than a single people worshiping a single God for more than 3,000 years? But Judaism is far from simple, and as a religion, culture, and civilization, it has evolved in surprising ways during its lengthy and remarkable history. Consider the following:",
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5231 "lectures" : [
5232 "Torah, Old Testament, and Hebrew Bible",
5233 "From Israelite to Jew",
5234 "Repentance",
5235 "Study",
5236 "Prayer",
5237 "Deeds of Loving Kindness",
5238 "Messianism",
5239 "The Coming World",
5240 "Sabbath",
5241 "Law and Spirit",
5242 "Fall Holidays",
5243 "Spring Holidays",
5244 "Minor Holidays—Then and Now",
5245 "Medieval Jewish Philosophy—Maimonides",
5246 "Medieval Jewish Mysticism—Kabbalah",
5247 "Evil and Suffering—Biblical and Rabbinic",
5248 "Evil and Suffering—Medieval and Modern",
5249 "Emancipation, Enlightenment, and Reform",
5250 "Orthodox Judaisms",
5251 "Israel and Zionism",
5252 "American Judaisms",
5253 "Women and Jewish Law",
5254 "Judaism and the Other",
5255 "The Chosen People?"
5256 ],
5257 "id" : 6423,
5258 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/introduction-to-judaism.html"
5259}{
5260 "professor" : "Professor Charles B. Jones, Ph.D.",
5261 "title" : "Introduction to the Study of Religion",
5262 "description" : "Religion undoubtedly plays an important part in the lives of people around the world. As Professor Charles B. Jones notes, many people \"would say [religion] is the most important part\" of their lives and participate in the practices of their faith as a means of deepening their commitment to and understanding of the world around them.",
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5264 "lectures" : [
5265 "Understanding \"Religion\"",
5266 "Theology and Religious Studies Part Ways",
5267 "A Clean Break—David Hume",
5268 "Auguste Comte—Religion, False but Necessary",
5269 "Karl Marx—Religion as Oppression",
5270 "Émile Durkheim—Society's Mirror",
5271 "Max Weber—The Motor of Economics",
5272 "Peter Berger—The Sacred Canopy",
5273 "Rodney Stark—Rational Choice Theory",
5274 "William James—The Description of Religion",
5275 "Sigmund Freud—The Critique of Religion",
5276 "Carl Jung—The Celebration of Religion",
5277 "Brief Excursus on Immanuel Kant",
5278 "The Victorians and The Golden Bough",
5279 "British Functionalism",
5280 "Symbolic Anthropology—Ferdinand de Saussure",
5281 "Symbolic Anthropology—Claude Lévi-Strauss",
5282 "Symbolic Anthropology—Clifford Geertz",
5283 "From Fries to Otto",
5284 "Mircea Eliade",
5285 "The Women's Studies Perspective",
5286 "Theory versus Reality—Case Studies",
5287 "Theory in Action—Case Studies",
5288 "How Religion Uses Religious Studies"
5289 ],
5290 "id" : 6121,
5291 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/introduction-to-the-study-of-religion.html"
5292}{
5293 "professor" : "Professor Kenneth R. Bartlett, Ph.D.",
5294 "title" : "Italians Before Italy: Conflict and Competition in the Mediterranean",
5295 "description" : "In 1260, the Italian city-states of Florence and Siena went to war. With wealth and power on its side, there was no question the Florentine force could easily overpower the underdog city-state of Siena. But that's not what happened. Against overwhelming odds, the Sienese won the crucial Battle of Montaperti, defeating their mighty enemy and preserving their independence.",
5296 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/8/2/8232---packaging_flat_4.1551364959.jpg",
5297 "lectures" : [
5298 "Italy—A Geographical Expression",
5299 "The Question of Sovereignty",
5300 "The Crusades and Italian Wealth",
5301 "Venice—A Maritime Republic",
5302 "The Terraferma Empire",
5303 "Genoa, La Superba",
5304 "Bankers and Dukes",
5305 "Pisa",
5306 "Christians vs. Turks in the Mediterranean",
5307 "Rome—Papal Authority",
5308 "Papal Ambition",
5309 "Papal Reform",
5310 "Naples—A Matter of Wills",
5311 "Naples and the Threat to Italian Liberty",
5312 "Milan and the Visconti",
5313 "The Sforza Dynasty",
5314 "Mantua and the Gonzaga",
5315 "Urbino and the Montefeltro",
5316 "Ferrara and the Este Family",
5317 "Siena and the Struggle for Liberty",
5318 "Florence and the Guild Republic",
5319 "Florence and the Medici",
5320 "The Italian Mosaic—E Pluribus Gloria",
5321 "Campanilismo—The Italian Sense of Place"
5322 ],
5323 "id" : 8232,
5324 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/italians-before-italy-conflict-and-competition-in-the-mediterranean.html"
5325}{
5326 "professor" : "Professor Kenneth R. Bartlett, Ph.D.",
5327 "title" : "Italian Renaissance",
5328 "description" : "When you think of the Italian Renaissance, chances are you think of what it gave us. The extraordinary sculptures of Michelangelo. The incomparable paintings of Leonardo da Vinci. The immortal written works of Petrarch and Machiavelli. But have you ever wondered why there was such an artistic, cultural and intellectual explosion in Italy at the start of the 14th century?",
5329 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/3/9/3970---packaging_flat_4.1551365208.jpg",
5330 "lectures" : [
5331 "The Study of the Italian Renaissance",
5332 "The Renaissance—Changing Interpretations",
5333 "Italy—The Cradle of the Renaissance",
5334 "The Age of Dante—Guelfs and Ghibellines",
5335 "Petrarch and the Foundations of Humanism",
5336 "The Recovery of Antiquity",
5337 "Florence—The Creation of the Republic",
5338 "Florence and Civic Humanism",
5339 "Florentine Culture and Society",
5340 "Renaissance Education",
5341 "The Medici Hegemony",
5342 "The Florence of Lorenzo de’Medici",
5343 "Venice—The Most Serene Republic",
5344 "Renaissance Venice",
5345 "The Signori—Renaissance Princes",
5346 "Urbino",
5347 "Castiglione and The Book of the Courtier",
5348 "Women in Renaissance Italy",
5349 "Neoplatonism",
5350 "Milan Under the Visconti",
5351 "Milan Under the Sforza",
5352 "The Eternal City—Rome",
5353 "The Rebuilding of Rome",
5354 "The Renaissance Papacy",
5355 "The Crisis—The French Invasion of 1494",
5356 "Florence in Turmoil",
5357 "Savonarola and the Republic",
5358 "The Medici Restored",
5359 "The Sack of Rome, 1527",
5360 "Niccolò Machiavelli",
5361 "Alessandro de’Medici",
5362 "The Monarchy of Cosimo I",
5363 "Guicciardini and The History of Italy",
5364 "The Counter-Reformation",
5365 "The End of the Renaissance in Italy",
5366 "Echoes of the Renaissance"
5367 ],
5368 "id" : 3970,
5369 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/italian-renaissance.html"
5370}{
5371 "professor" : "Professor Luke Timothy Johnson, Ph.D.",
5372 "title" : "Jesus and the Gospels",
5373 "description" : "The figure of Jesus has tantalized both Christians and non-Christians who have sought definitive answers to questions about his words, his acts, and even his very existence. For most of the last 2,000 years, the search for those answers has begun with the Gospels, but the Gospels themselves raise puzzling questions about both Jesus and the religious movement within which these narratives were produced. They also provide sometimes bewilderingly diverse images of Jesus.",
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5375 "lectures" : [
5376 "Why Not \"The Historical Jesus\"?",
5377 "The Starting Point—The Resurrection Experience",
5378 "The Matrix—Symbolic World of Greek and Jew",
5379 "Parallels—Stories of Greek and Jewish Heroes",
5380 "The Context—Jesus in the Memory of the Church",
5381 "Earliest Stages—Paul and the Oral Tradition",
5382 "Why Compose Gospels?",
5383 "The Synoptic Problem and Its Solutions",
5384 "Gospel of Mark—Apocalyptic and Irony",
5385 "Gospel of Mark—Good News in Mystery",
5386 "Gospel of Mark—Teacher and Disciples",
5387 "Gospel of Mark—Passion and Death",
5388 "Gospel of Matthew—Synagogue Down the Street",
5389 "Gospel of Matthew—The Messiah of Israel",
5390 "Gospel of Matthew—Jesus and Torah",
5391 "Gospel of Matthew—Teacher and Lord",
5392 "Luke-Acts—The Prophetic Gospel",
5393 "Gospel of Luke—God’s Prophet",
5394 "Gospel of Luke—The Prophet and the People",
5395 "Acts of the Apostles—The Prophet's Movement",
5396 "Gospel of John—Context of Conflict",
5397 "Gospel of John—Jesus as the Man from Heaven",
5398 "Gospel of John—Jesus as Obedient Son",
5399 "Gospel of John—Witness to the Truth",
5400 "In and Out—Canonical and Apocryphal Gospels",
5401 "Young Jesus—The Infancy Gospel of James",
5402 "Young Jesus—The Infancy Gospel of Thomas",
5403 "Jewish Christian Narrative Gospels",
5404 "Fragments of Narrative Gospels—Gospel of Peter",
5405 "New Revelations—Gnostic Witnesses",
5406 "Jesus in Word—The Coptic Gospel of Thomas",
5407 "Jesus in Word—Two Gnostic Gospels",
5408 "The Gnostic Good News—The Gospel of Truth",
5409 "The Gnostic Good News—The Gospel of Philip",
5410 "Jesus in and Through the Gospels",
5411 "Learning Jesus in Past and Present"
5412 ],
5413 "id" : 6240,
5414 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/jesus-and-the-gospels.html"
5415}{
5416 "professor" : "Professor David B. Ruderman, Ph.D.",
5417 "title" : "Jewish Intellectual History: 16th to 20th Century",
5418 "description" : "God. Torah. Israel. These three concepts—incorporated in personal belief, the meaning of Jewish ritual acts, and the purpose of continued Jewish existence—have been the focus of Jewish thought throughout history.",
5419 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/4/6/4647---packaging_flat_4.1551366624.jpg",
5420 "lectures" : [
5421 "On Studying Jewish History",
5422 "Defining Modern Jewish History and Thought",
5423 "Cultural Transformation in the Italian Ghetto",
5424 "Seventeenth-Century Marranism and Messianism",
5425 "The Challenge of Baruch Spinoza",
5426 "Moses Mendelssohn and His Generation",
5427 "The Science of Judaism",
5428 "Heinrich Graetz—Jewish Historian",
5429 "Abraham Geiger—The Shaping of Reform Judaism",
5430 "The Neo-Orthodoxy of Samson Raphael Hirsch",
5431 "Zecharias Frankel and Conservative Judaism",
5432 "Samuel David Luzzatto—Judaism and Atticism",
5433 "Zionism's Answer to the Jewish Problem",
5434 "Three Zionist Visions",
5435 "The Jewish Adventure with Socialism",
5436 "Hermann Cohen's Religion of Reason",
5437 "Leo Baeck's Mystery and Commandment",
5438 "Martin Buber's Religious Existentialism",
5439 "Jewish Law—Martin Buber vs. Franz Rosenzweig",
5440 "Mordecai Kaplan and American Judaism",
5441 "Abraham Heschel—Mystic and Social Activist",
5442 "Theological Responses to the Nazi Holocaust",
5443 "Feminist Jewish Theology",
5444 "Current Trends in Jewish Thought"
5445 ],
5446 "id" : 4647,
5447 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/jewish-intellectual-history-16th-to-20th-century.html"
5448}{
5449 "professor" : "Professor Robert M. Hazen, Ph.D.",
5450 "title" : "Joy of Science",
5451 "description" : "English novelist and scientist C. P. Snow classed certain scientific ideas with the works of Shakespeare as something every educated person should know. One such idea, according to Snow, was the second law of thermodynamics, which deals with the diffusion of heat and has many profound consequences. He might well have added Newton's laws, the periodic table of elements, the double-helix structure of DNA, and scores of other masterpieces of scientific discovery.",
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5453 "lectures" : [
5454 "The Nature of Science",
5455 "The Scientific Method",
5456 "The Ordered Universe",
5457 "Celestial and Terrestrial Mechanics",
5458 "Newton's Laws of Motion",
5459 "Universal Gravitation",
5460 "The Nature of Energy",
5461 "The First Law of Thermodynamics",
5462 "The Second Law of Thermodynamics",
5463 "Entropy",
5464 "Magnetism and Static Electricity",
5465 "Electricity",
5466 "Electromagnetism",
5467 "The Electromagnetic Spectrum, Part I",
5468 "The Electromagnetic Spectrum, Part II",
5469 "Relativity",
5470 "Atoms",
5471 "The Bohr Atom",
5472 "The Quantum World",
5473 "The Periodic Table of the Elements",
5474 "Introduction to Chemistry",
5475 "The Chemistry of Carbon",
5476 "States of Matter and Changes of State",
5477 "Phase Transformations and Chemical Reactions",
5478 "Properties of Materials",
5479 "Semiconductors and Modern Microelectronics",
5480 "Isotopes and Radioactivity",
5481 "Nuclear Fission and Fusion Reactions",
5482 "Astronomy",
5483 "The Life Cycle of Stars",
5484 "Edwin Hubble and the Discovery of Galaxies",
5485 "The Big Bang",
5486 "The Ultimate Structure of Matter",
5487 "The Nebular Hypothesis",
5488 "The Solar System",
5489 "The Earth as a Planet",
5490 "The Dynamic Earth",
5491 "The Plate Tectonics Revolution",
5492 "Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Plate Motions Today",
5493 "Earth Cycles—Water",
5494 "The Atmospheric Cycle",
5495 "The Rock Cycle",
5496 "What Is Life?",
5497 "Strategies of Life",
5498 "Life's Molecular Building Blocks",
5499 "Proteins",
5500 "Cells—The Chemical Factories of Life",
5501 "Gregor Mendel, Founder of Genetics",
5502 "The Discovery of DNA",
5503 "The Genetic Code",
5504 "Reading the Genetic Code",
5505 "Genetic Engineering",
5506 "Cancer and Other Genetic Diseases",
5507 "The Chemical Evolution of Life",
5508 "Biological Evolution—A Unifying Theme of Biology",
5509 "The Fact of Evolution—The Fossil Record",
5510 "Charles Darwin and the Theory of Natural Selection",
5511 "Ecosystems and the Law of Unintended Consequences",
5512 "The Ozone Hole, Acid Rain, and the Greenhouse Effect",
5513 "Science, the Endless Frontier"
5514 ],
5515 "id" : 1100,
5516 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/joy-of-science.html"
5517}{
5518 "professor" : "Professor James A. W. Heffernan, Ph.D.",
5519 "title" : "Joyce's Ulysses",
5520 "description" : "James Joyce's great novel Ulysses is a big, richly imagined, and intricately organized book with a huge reputation. T. S. Eliot, bowled over by Joyce's brilliant manipulation of a continuous parallel between ancient myth and modern life, called it \"the most important expression which the present age has found ... [one] to which we are all indebted, and from which none of us can escape.\"",
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5522 "lectures" : [
5523 "The Story of a Modern Masterpiece",
5524 "Telemachus at the Martello Tower",
5525 "Nestor at School",
5526 "Proteus on Sandymount Strand",
5527 "Breakfast with Calypso",
5528 "Leopold Bloom and the Lotus Eaters",
5529 "Hades",
5530 "A Bag of Winds",
5531 "Lestrygonians at Lunchtime",
5532 "Scylla and Charybdis, I",
5533 "Scylla and Charybdis, II",
5534 "Wandering Rocks",
5535 "The Sirens of the Ormond Hotel",
5536 "Citizen Cyclops, I",
5537 "Citizen Cyclops, II",
5538 "Nausicaa at the Beach",
5539 "Oxen of the Sun",
5540 "Circe of Nighttown, I",
5541 "Circe of Nighttown, II",
5542 "Eumaeus",
5543 "Return to Ithaca, I",
5544 "Return to Ithaca, II",
5545 "Molly Bloom Speaks",
5546 "Joyce and the Modern Novel"
5547 ],
5548 "id" : 237,
5549 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/joyce-s-ulysses.html"
5550}{
5551 "professor" : "Professor Thomas F. X. Noble, Ph.D.",
5552 "title" : "Late Antiquity: Crisis and Transformation",
5553 "description" : "Edward Gibbon's stirring Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire painted an unforgettable portrait of the Roman Empire in a long, debilitating slide to oblivion, culminating in an agonizing death at the hands of barbarian savages. But two centuries after Gibbon, historians have reevaluated this picture to create a radically different understanding of the period, which they now call \"late antiquity.\"",
5554 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/3/4/3480---packaging_flat_4.1551362519.jpg",
5555 "lectures" : [
5556 "The World of Late Antiquity",
5557 "The Crisis of the 3rd Century",
5558 "The New Empire of Diocletian",
5559 "Constantine's Roman Revolution",
5560 "The House of Constantine, 337–363",
5561 "The End of a Unified Empire",
5562 "Ruling the Roman Empire—The Imperial Center",
5563 "Ruling the Roman Empire—The Provinces",
5564 "The Barbarians—Ethnicity and Identity",
5565 "Rome and the Barbarians",
5566 "Barbarian Kingdoms—Gaul",
5567 "Barbarian Kingdoms—Spain and North Africa",
5568 "Barbarian Kingdoms—Italy",
5569 "The Eastern Empire in the 5th Century",
5570 "The End of the Western Empire",
5571 "The Age of Justinian, 527–565",
5572 "The Christianization of the Roman World",
5573 "Christianity and the Roman State",
5574 "The Rise of the Roman Church",
5575 "The Call of the Desert—Monasticism",
5576 "Monasticism—Solitaries and Communities",
5577 "The Church Fathers—Talking About God",
5578 "Patristic Portraits",
5579 "\"What Has Athens to Do with Jerusalem?\"",
5580 "Graven Images—Christianity's Visual Arts",
5581 "The Universal in the Local—Cities",
5582 "Rome and Constantinople",
5583 "Visigothic Spain and Merovingian Gaul",
5584 "Celt and Saxon in the British Isles",
5585 "The Birth of Byzantium",
5586 "Byzantium—Crisis and Recovery",
5587 "Muhammad and the Rise of Islam",
5588 "The Rise of the Caliphate",
5589 "Material Life in Late Antiquity",
5590 "The Social World of Late Antiquity",
5591 "What Happened, and Why Does It Matter?"
5592 ],
5593 "id" : 3480,
5594 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/late-antiquity-crisis-and-transformation.html"
5595}{
5596 "professor" : "Professor Philip Daileader, Ph.D.",
5597 "title" : "Late Middle Ages",
5598 "description" : "Were the two centuries from c. 1300 to c. 1500—an age that has come to be known as the Late Middle Ages—an era of calamity or an era of rebirth? Should we look on this time as still clearly medieval or as one in which humanity took its first decisive steps into modernity? Was it a period as distant from us as it appears, or was it closer than we suspect? Students of history are still trying, even after so many centuries, to reach anything approaching a consensus on the answers to these questions.",
5599 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/8/2/8296---packaging_flat_4.1551363803.jpg",
5600 "lectures" : [
5601 "Late Middle Ages—Rebirth, Waning, Calamity?",
5602 "Philip the Fair versus Boniface VIII",
5603 "Fall of the Templars and the Avignon Papacy",
5604 "The Great Papal Schism",
5605 "The Hundred Years War, Part 1",
5606 "The Hundred Years War, Part 2",
5607 "The Black Death, Part 1",
5608 "The Black Death, Part 2",
5609 "Revolt in Town and Country",
5610 "William Ockham",
5611 "John Wycliffe and the Lollards",
5612 "Jan Hus and the Hussite Rebellion",
5613 "Witchcraft",
5614 "Christine de Pizan and Catherine of Siena",
5615 "Gunpowder",
5616 "The Printing Press",
5617 "Renaissance Humanism, Part 1",
5618 "Renaissance Humanism, Part 2",
5619 "The Fall of the Byzantine Empire",
5620 "Ferdinand and Isabella",
5621 "The Spanish Inquisition",
5622 "The Age of Exploration",
5623 "Columbus and the Columbian Exchange",
5624 "When Did the Middle Ages End?"
5625 ],
5626 "id" : 8296,
5627 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/late-middle-ages.html"
5628}{
5629 "professor" : "Professor Timothy Taylor, M.Econ.",
5630 "title" : "Legacies of Great Economists",
5631 "description" : "When it comes to economics and economic theory, a few thinkers dominate the landscape. Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Alfred Marshall, John Maynard Keynes, and a handful of others have shaped the world of economics and influenced our lives. These lectures by Professor Timothy Taylor acquaint you with the thoughts, theories, and lives of those great economists, ranging from the predecessors of Adam Smith in the 18th century through 20th century giants like John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman.",
5632 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/5/2/528---packaging_flat_4.1551368305.jpg",
5633 "lectures" : [
5634 "Before Economics—Mercantilists and Physiocrats",
5635 "Adam Smith and the Birth of Economics",
5636 "The Dismal Science—Thomas Robert Malthus and David Ricardo",
5637 "John Stuart Mill and Utilitarianism",
5638 "Karl Marx and Socialism",
5639 "Alfred Marshall and Marginalist Thought",
5640 "The Socialist Calculation Debate",
5641 "Joseph Schumpeter and Entrepreneurialism",
5642 "John Maynard Keynes and the Keynesian Revolution",
5643 "Milton Friedman and the Rebirth of Classical Economics"
5644 ],
5645 "id" : 528,
5646 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/legacies-of-great-economists.html"
5647}{
5648 "professor" : "Professor Stephen Railton, Ph.D.",
5649 "title" : "Life and Work of Mark Twain",
5650 "description" : "Samuel Clemens, the man known to history as Mark Twain, was more than one of America's greatest writers. He was our first true celebrity, one of the most photographed faces of the 19th and 20th centuries.",
5651 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/2/5/2567---packaging_flat_4.1551364028.jpg",
5652 "lectures" : [
5653 "Needing No Introduction?",
5654 "From Samuel Clemens to Mark Twain",
5655 "The Sense of Mark Twain's Humor",
5656 "Marketing Twain",
5657 "Innocents Abroad, I—Going East",
5658 "Innocents Abroad, II—Traveling to Unlearn",
5659 "Roughing It—Going West",
5660 "The Lecture Tours",
5661 "The Whittier After-Dinner Speech",
5662 "\"Old Times on the Mississippi\"",
5663 "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer",
5664 "The Performances of Tom Sawyer",
5665 "Huck Finn, I—Defining an American Voice",
5666 "Huck Finn, II—The Quest for Freedom",
5667 "Huck Finn, III—The Great American Novel?",
5668 "Huck Finn, IV—Classrooms and Controversy",
5669 "Connecticut Yankee, I—Unwriting the Middle Ages",
5670 "Connecticut Yankee, II—Revisiting the Nineteenth Century",
5671 "Connecticut Yankee, III—The Quest for Status",
5672 "Pudd'nhead Wilson—Fictions of Law and Custom",
5673 "Anti-Imperialist Works",
5674 "Late Twain in Public",
5675 "Late Twain in Private",
5676 "Sam Clemens is Dead/Long Live Mark Twain"
5677 ],
5678 "id" : 2567,
5679 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/life-and-work-of-mark-twain.html"
5680}{
5681 "professor" : "Professor Louis Markos, Ph.D.",
5682 "title" : "Life and Writings of C. S. Lewis",
5683 "description" : "What is it about British literary scholar and author C. S. Lewis—the Oxbridge don and self-described \"very ordinary layman of the Church of England\"—that touches millions of readers so deeply, making him the most widely read Christian spokesman of our time? In these lectures you will cover Lewis's spiritual autobiography and other creative works, as well as his scholarly writings that reflect on pain and grief, love and friendship, prophecy and miracles, and education and mythology.",
5684 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/2/9/297---packaging_flat_5.1551363793.jpg",
5685 "lectures" : [
5686 "The Legacy of C. S. Lewis",
5687 "Argument by Desire—Surprised by Joy and The Pilgrim's Regress",
5688 "Ethics and the Tao—Mere Christianity and The Abolition of Man",
5689 "Nature and Supernature—Miracles and The Problem of Pain",
5690 "Heaven and Hell—The Screwtape Letters and The Great Divorce",
5691 "Lewis the Scholar—Apologist for the Past",
5692 "Paradise Regained—The Space Trilogy I",
5693 "Temptation, Struggle, and Choice—The Space Trilogy II",
5694 "Smuggled Theology—The Chronicles of Narnia I",
5695 "Journeys of Faith—The Chronicles of Narnia II",
5696 "The Beginning and the End—The Chronicles of Narnia III",
5697 "Suffering unto Wisdom—Till We Have Faces and A Grief Observed"
5698 ],
5699 "id" : 297,
5700 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/life-and-writings-of-c-s-lewis.html"
5701}{
5702 "professor" : "Professor Seth Lerer, Ph.D.",
5703 "title" : "Life and Writings of Geoffrey Chaucer",
5704 "description" : "Imagine a writer who is equally at home with romantic adventure and devotional meditation, or who brings the fullest measure of brilliance to ribald comedy and grave tragedy alike. Add a talent for creating unforgettable characters and keenly painting social relationships. Top it all off with a gift for expression so pure and scintillating that no less an authority than Edmund Spenser was moved to laud this writer's works as a \"well of English pure and undefiled.",
5705 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/3/0/304---packaging_flat_4.1551365631.jpg",
5706 "lectures" : [
5707 "Introduction to Chaucer's Life and World",
5708 "The Scope of Chaucer's Work",
5709 "Chaucer's Language",
5710 "Chaucerian Themes and Terms",
5711 "Troilus and Criseyde—Love and Philosophy",
5712 "Troilus and Criseyde—History and Fiction",
5713 "The Canterbury Tales—The General Prologue",
5714 "The Canterbury Tales—The First Fragment",
5715 "The Wife of Bath",
5716 "The Pardoner",
5717 "“God’s Plenty”—The Variety of The Canterbury Tales",
5718 "Chaucer's Living Influence"
5719 ],
5720 "id" : 304,
5721 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/life-and-writings-of-geoffrey-chaucer.html"
5722}{
5723 "professor" : "Professor Seth Lerer, Ph.D.",
5724 "title" : "Life and Writings of John Milton",
5725 "description" : "There is no disputing that John Milton (1608–1674) is considered one of the supreme writers in the history of English letters, and indeed in world literature. \"All things and modes of action shape themselves anew in the being of Milton,\" said the great critic and poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Yet, for a number of reasons, many modern readers are unaware of the pleasures of his often complex poetry and prose.",
5726 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/3/0/305---packaging_flat_4.1551377293.jpg",
5727 "lectures" : [
5728 "Introduction to Milton's Life and Art",
5729 "Milton's Early Poetry",
5730 "“Lycidas”",
5731 "Political Milton",
5732 "Paradise Lost—An Introduction",
5733 "Paradise Lost, Book I",
5734 "Paradise Lost, Book II",
5735 "Paradise Lost, Book III",
5736 "Book IV—Theatrical Milton",
5737 "Book IX—The Fall",
5738 "Late Milton—Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes",
5739 "Milton's Living Influence"
5740 ],
5741 "id" : 305,
5742 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/life-and-writings-of-john-milton.html"
5743}{
5744 "professor" : "Professor J. Rufus Fears, Ph.D.",
5745 "title" : "Life Lessons from the Great Books",
5746 "description" : "For every important moment and stage in your life, there is a Great Book that can offer you invaluable lessons and place your unique experiences in a larger perspective.",
5747 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/2/1/2180---packaging_flat_4.1551363842.jpg",
5748 "lectures" : [
5749 "Seneca—\"On Providence\"",
5750 "The Gospel of John",
5751 "Boethius, Martin Luther King—Conscience",
5752 "Dostoevsky—The Brothers Karamazov",
5753 "Elie Wiesel—Night",
5754 "Schweitzer—Out of My Life and Thought",
5755 "Goethe—The Sufferings of Young Werther",
5756 "Shakespeare—Hamlet",
5757 "Sophocles—Ajax",
5758 "Plato—Epistle VII",
5759 "Cicero—\"On Old Age\"",
5760 "Isaac Bashevis Singer—The Penitent",
5761 "Euripides—Alcestis",
5762 "Euripides—Medea",
5763 "Von Strasburg—Tristan and Isolde",
5764 "Shakespeare—Antony and Cleopatra",
5765 "Shakespeare—Macbeth",
5766 "Aldous Huxley—Brave New World",
5767 "Homer—Odyssey",
5768 "Sophocles—Philoctetes",
5769 "The Song of Roland—Chivalric Adventure",
5770 "Nibelungenlied—Chivalric Romance",
5771 "Lewis and Clark—Journals",
5772 "T. E. Lawrence—Seven Pillars of Wisdom",
5773 "Aristophanes—Comedies",
5774 "Menander—The Grouch",
5775 "Machiavelli—La Mandragola",
5776 "Erasmus—In Praise of Folly",
5777 "Thomas More—Utopia",
5778 "George Orwell—Animal Farm",
5779 "Josephus—History of the Jewish War",
5780 "Joseph Addison—Cato",
5781 "George Washington—Farewell Address",
5782 "Abraham Lincoln, George Patton—War",
5783 "Theodore Roosevelt—An Autobiography",
5784 "The Wisdom of Great Books"
5785 ],
5786 "id" : 2180,
5787 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/life-lessons-from-the-great-books.html"
5788}{
5789 "professor" : "Professor Jeffrey Perl, Ph.D.",
5790 "title" : "Literary Modernism: The Struggle for Modern History",
5791 "description" : "\"It is no trick to like what you like. It is no trick to understand what you understand.\" With that pronouncement, Professor Jeffrey Perl invites us to abandon our preconceptions and consider some of the most controversial authors of the 20th century: the Literary Modernists.",
5792 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/2/9/292---packaging_flat_5.1551364828.jpg",
5793 "lectures" : [
5794 "Introduction—Modernity and Modernism",
5795 "Transition",
5796 "Against Theory",
5797 "Waste Lands",
5798 "The Complete Consort",
5799 "Modernist Theater",
5800 "Apocalypse",
5801 "Postwar, Postmodern, Postculture"
5802 ],
5803 "id" : 292,
5804 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/literary-modernism-the-struggle-for-modern-history.html"
5805}{
5806 "professor" : "Professor Willard Spiegelman, Ph.D.",
5807 "title" : "Lives and Works of the English Romantic Poets",
5808 "description" : "The verse of the English Romantic poets is as daunting in its scope and complexity as it is dazzling in its technique and beautiful in its language. Professor Willard Spiegelman illuminates masterpieces of English literature by poets Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, and Byron, as well as women Romantic poets.",
5809 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/2/4/2477---packaging_flat_4.1551365643.jpg",
5810 "lectures" : [
5811 "Romantic Beginnings",
5812 "Wordsworth and the Lyrical Ballads",
5813 "Life and Death, Past and Present",
5814 "Epic Ambitions and Autobiography",
5815 "Spots of Time and Poetic Growth",
5816 "Coleridge and the Art of Conversation",
5817 "Hell to Heaven via Purgatory",
5818 "Rivals and Friends",
5819 "William Blake—Eccentric Genius",
5820 "From Innocence to Experience",
5821 "Blake's Prophetic Books",
5822 "Women Romantic Poets",
5823 "\"Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know\"",
5824 "The Byronic Hero",
5825 "Don Juan—A Comic Masterpiece",
5826 "Shelley and Romantic Lyricism",
5827 "Shelley's Figures of Thought",
5828 "Shelley and History",
5829 "Shelley and Love",
5830 "Keats and the Poetry of Aspiration",
5831 "Keats and Ambition",
5832 "Keats and Eros",
5833 "Process, Ripeness, Fulfillment",
5834 "The Persistence of Romanticism"
5835 ],
5836 "id" : 2477,
5837 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/lives-and-works-of-the-english-romantic-poets.html"
5838}{
5839 "professor" : "Professor William R. Cook, Ph.D.",
5840 "title" : "Lives of Great Christians",
5841 "description" : "The followers of Jesus, who came to be called Christians, have practiced and preached their beliefs for centuries. Their actions and achievements, their abilities and energies, have changed the course of history and the nature of belief. Many are well known, but many more are obscure or even nameless. The Lives of Great Christians will introduce you to some of Christianity's luminaries. You will know once you meet them why they are great, and you will be interested and inspired by the many ways they found to live lives of faith.",
5842 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/6/4/6481---packaging_flat_4.1551368492.jpg",
5843 "lectures" : [
5844 "Introduction—What Makes a Great Christian?",
5845 "Paul and the First Christian Missionaries",
5846 "The Early Martyrs",
5847 "St. Antony, the First Monk",
5848 "The Desert Fathers and Mothers",
5849 "Augustine",
5850 "St. Patrick and the Conversion of Ireland",
5851 "St. Benedict and His Rule",
5852 "Leo IX, Gregory VII, and Church Reform",
5853 "Bernard of Clairvaux and Monastic Reform",
5854 "Francis of Assisi",
5855 "Clare of Assisi",
5856 "Catherine of Siena",
5857 "Bernardino of Siena",
5858 "John Hus and the Hussites",
5859 "Thomas More",
5860 "Martin Luther",
5861 "John Wesley and the Origins of Methodism",
5862 "The Monks of Mount Athos",
5863 "Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Maximilian Kolbe",
5864 "Damien of Molokai and Teresa of Calcutta",
5865 "From Slavery to Martin Luther King",
5866 "Gustavo Gutierrez and Liberation Theology",
5867 "Defining the Christian Life"
5868 ],
5869 "id" : 6481,
5870 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/lives-of-great-christians.html"
5871}{
5872 "professor" : "Professor Robert Bucholz, D.Phil.",
5873 "title" : "London: A Short History of the Greatest City in the Western World",
5874 "description" : "No city has had as powerful and as enduring an impact on Western civilization as London. Throughout its vast and riveting history, London played a critical role in shaping many of the most important political, social, cultural, and economic institutions and systems that you live with today. Consider that London",
5875 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/8/8/8894---packaging_flat_4.1551366892.jpg",
5876 "lectures" : [
5877 "There's No Place like London",
5878 "The Rise and Fall of Roman Londinium",
5879 "Medieval London's Thousand-Year Climb",
5880 "Economic Life in Chaucer's London",
5881 "Politics and Religion in Chaucer's London",
5882 "London Embraces the Early Tudors",
5883 "Elizabeth I and London as a Stage",
5884 "Life in Shakespeare's London—East",
5885 "Life in Shakespeare's London—West",
5886 "London Rejects the Early Stuarts",
5887 "Life in Samuel Pepys's 17th-Century London",
5888 "Plague and Fire",
5889 "London Rises Again—As an Imperial Capital",
5890 "Johnson's London—All That Life Can Afford",
5891 "The Underside of 18th-Century London",
5892 "London Confronts Its Problems",
5893 "Life in Dickens's London",
5894 "Two Windows into Victorian London",
5895 "Questions Postponed and the Great War",
5896 "London's Interwar Expansion and Diversions",
5897 "The Blitz—The Greatest Target in the World",
5898 "Postwar London Returns to Life",
5899 "The Varied Winds of Change",
5900 "Millennial London—How Do You Like It?"
5901 ],
5902 "id" : 8894,
5903 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/london-a-short-history-of-the-greatest-city-in-the-western-world.html"
5904}{
5905 "professor" : "Professor Bart D. Ehrman, Ph.D., M.Div.",
5906 "title" : "Lost Christianities: Christian Scriptures and the Battles over Authentication",
5907 "description" : "In the first centuries after Christ, there was no \"official\" New Testament. Instead, early Christians read and fervently followed a wide variety of Scriptures—many more than we have today.",
5908 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/6/5/6593---packaging_flat_4.1551363740.jpg",
5909 "lectures" : [
5910 "The Diversity of Early Christianity",
5911 "Christians Who Would Be Jews",
5912 "Christians Who Refuse To Be Jews",
5913 "Early Gnostic Christianity—Our Sources",
5914 "Early Christian Gnosticism—An Overview",
5915 "The Gnostic Gospel of Truth",
5916 "Gnostics Explain Themselves",
5917 "The Coptic Gospel of Thomas",
5918 "Thomas' Gnostic Teachings",
5919 "Infancy Gospels",
5920 "The Gospel of Peter",
5921 "The Secret Gospel of Mark",
5922 "The Acts of John",
5923 "The Acts of Thomas",
5924 "The Acts of Paul and Thecla",
5925 "Forgeries in the Name of Paul",
5926 "The Epistle of Barnabas",
5927 "The Apocalypse of Peter",
5928 "The Rise of Early Christian Orthodoxy",
5929 "Beginnings of the Canon",
5930 "Formation of the New Testament Canon",
5931 "Interpretation of Scripture",
5932 "Orthodox Corruption of Scripture",
5933 "Early Christian Creeds"
5934 ],
5935 "id" : 6593,
5936 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/lost-christianities-christian-scriptures-and-the-battles-over-authentication.html"
5937}{
5938 "professor" : "Professor Phillip Cary, Ph.D.",
5939 "title" : "Luther: Gospel, Law, and Reformation",
5940 "description" : "He was only one man—a humble monk and Bible professor—yet he sparked a religious rebellion that changed the course of history. Who was Martin Luther? What made his theology so explosive in 16th-century Europe? Was it really his intention to start Protestantism, and with it a new church?",
5941 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/6/6/6633---packaging_flat_4.1551368732.jpg",
5942 "lectures" : [
5943 "Luther's Gospel",
5944 "The Medieval Church—Abuses and Reform",
5945 "The Augustinian Paradigm of Spirituality",
5946 "Young Luther Against Himself",
5947 "Hearing the Gospel",
5948 "Faith and Works",
5949 "The Meaning of the Sacraments",
5950 "The Indulgence Controversy",
5951 "The Reformation Goes Public",
5952 "The Captivity of the Sacraments",
5953 "Reformation in Wittenberg",
5954 "The Work of the Reformer",
5955 "Against the Spirit of Rebellion",
5956 "Controversy Over the Lord’s Supper",
5957 "Controversy Over Infant Baptism",
5958 "Grace and Justification",
5959 "Luther and the Bible",
5960 "Luther and Erasmus",
5961 "Luther and Predestination",
5962 "Luther and Protestantism",
5963 "Luther and Politics",
5964 "Luther and His Enemies",
5965 "Luther and the Jews",
5966 "Luther and Modernity"
5967 ],
5968 "id" : 6633,
5969 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/luther-gospel-law-and-reformation.html"
5970}{
5971 "professor" : "Professor Allen C. Guelzo, Ph.D.",
5972 "title" : "Making History: How Great Historians Interpret the Past",
5973 "description" : "History is not truth. While it forms the backbone of our knowledge about the world, history is nevertheless only a version of events. History is shaped by the interpretations and perspectives of the individual historians who record it. Consider:",
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5975 "lectures" : [
5976 "History as the Second Question",
5977 "Homer and Herodotus",
5978 "Marching with Xenophon",
5979 "The Unhappy Thucydides",
5980 "Men of Mixed Motives—Polybius and Sallust",
5981 "The Grandeur That Was Livy",
5982 "Tacitus—Chronicler of Chaos",
5983 "The Christian Claim to Continuity",
5984 "Augustine's City—Struggle for the Future",
5985 "Faith and the End of Time",
5986 "The Birth of Criticism",
5987 "The Reformation—The Disruption of History",
5988 "The Reformation—Continuity or Apocalypse?",
5989 "Enlightening History",
5990 "The Rise and Triumph of Edward Gibbon",
5991 "History as Science—Kant, Ranke, and Comte",
5992 "The Whig Interpretation of History",
5993 "Romantic History",
5994 "The Apocalypse of Karl Marx",
5995 "Culture and History",
5996 "Civilization as History",
5997 "The American History Lesson",
5998 "Closing the Frontier",
5999 "The Value of History"
6000 ],
6001 "id" : 8818,
6002 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/making-history-how-great-historians-interpret-the-past.html"
6003}{
6004 "professor" : "Professor David J. Schenker, Ph.D.",
6005 "title" : "Masterpieces of Ancient Greek Literature",
6006 "description" : "All our lives, we've been taught the importance of the ancient Greeks to so much of the world that came after them, and particularly to our own way of living in and seeing that world. Mention politics, philosophy, law, medicine, history, even the visual arts, and we barely scratch the surface of what we owe this extraordinary culture.",
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6008 "lectures" : [
6009 "Definitions, Boundaries, and Goals",
6010 "Homer I—Introduction to Epic and Iliad",
6011 "Homer II—Iliad, The Wrath of Achilles",
6012 "Homer III—Iliad, The Return of Achilles",
6013 "Homer IV—Odyssey, Introduction and Prelude",
6014 "Homer V—Odyssey, The Adventures",
6015 "Homer VI—Odyssey, Reintegration",
6016 "Hesiod—Theogony and Works and Days",
6017 "Homeric Hymns",
6018 "Lyric Poetry I—Archilochus and Solon",
6019 "Lyric Poetry II—Sappho and Alcaeus",
6020 "Tragedy—Contexts and Conventions",
6021 "Aeschylus I—Persians",
6022 "Aeschylus II—Agamemnon",
6023 "Aeschylus III—Libation Bearers and Eumenides",
6024 "Sophocles I—Ajax and Philoctetes",
6025 "Sophocles II—Oedipus the King",
6026 "Sophocles III—Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone",
6027 "Euripides I—Electra, Orestes, Trojan Women",
6028 "Euripides II—Medea and Hippolytus",
6029 "Euripides III—The Bacchae",
6030 "Aristophanes I—Introduction to Old Comedy",
6031 "Aristophanes II—Acharnians and Lysistrata",
6032 "Aristophanes III—The Frogs and The Clouds",
6033 "Herodotus I—Introduction to History",
6034 "Herodotus II—The Persian Wars",
6035 "Thucydides I—The Peloponnesian War",
6036 "Thucydides II—Books 1–5",
6037 "Thucydides III—Books 6–7",
6038 "Plato I—The Philosopher as Literary Author",
6039 "Plato II—Symposium",
6040 "Plato III—Phaedrus",
6041 "Rhetoric and Oratory",
6042 "Hellenistic Poetry I—Callimachus and Theocritus",
6043 "Hellenistic Poetry II—Apollonius",
6044 "Looking Back and Looking Forward"
6045 ],
6046 "id" : 2390,
6047 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/masterpieces-of-ancient-greek-literature.html"
6048}{
6049 "professor" : "Professor Michael Krasny, Ph.D.",
6050 "title" : "Masterpieces of Short Fiction",
6051 "description" : "Imagine that, in one sitting, you could enter a world of imagination and witness the triumphs, tragedies, errors, and epiphanies that arise in the lives of ordinary and extraordinary people. Imagine that, in the time it takes to run an errand, you could gain remarkable insights about the true nature of humanity—its dark secrets and its saving graces. Imagine that, in the space of an hour, you could do this instead:",
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6053 "lectures" : [
6054 "Excavations—Poe's \"The Cask of Amontillado\"",
6055 "Hawthorne's \"Goodman Brown\" and Lost Faith",
6056 "Under Gogol's \"Overcoat\"",
6057 "Maupassant's \"The Necklace\"—Real and Paste",
6058 "Chekhov, Love, and \"The Lady with the Dog\"",
6059 "James in the Art Studio—\"The Real Thing\"",
6060 "Epiphany and the Modern in Joyce's \"Araby\"",
6061 "Babel's \"My First Goose\"—Violent Concision",
6062 "Male Initiation—Hemingway's \"The Killers\"",
6063 "Kafka's Parable—\"A Hunger Artist\"",
6064 "Lawrence's Blue-eyed \"Rocking-Horse Winner\"",
6065 "Female Initiation—Mansfield's \"Party\"",
6066 "Jackson's Shocking Vision in \"The Lottery\"",
6067 "O'Connor's \"A Good Man Is Hard to Find\"",
6068 "Paley on Survival and \"An Interest in Life\"",
6069 "The \"Enormous Wings\" of García Márquez",
6070 "A New World Fable—Malamud's \"The Jewbird\"",
6071 "Baldwin's \"Sonny's Blues\"—A Harlem Song",
6072 "Updike's \"A & P\"—The Choice of Gallantry",
6073 "Kingston's Warrior Myth—\"No Name Woman\"",
6074 "Atwood's \"Happy Endings\" as Metafiction",
6075 "Gordimer's \"Moment Before\" Apartheid Fell",
6076 "Carver's \"Cathedral\"—A Story that Levitates",
6077 "Why Short Fiction Masterpieces?"
6078 ],
6079 "id" : 2317,
6080 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/masterpieces-of-short-fiction.html"
6081}{
6082 "professor" : "Professor Eric S. Rabkin, Ph.D.",
6083 "title" : "Masterpieces of the Imaginative Mind: Literature's Most Fantastic Works",
6084 "description" : "",
6085 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/2/9/2997---packaging_flat.1551364555.jpg",
6086 "lectures" : [
6087 "The Brothers Grimm & Fairy Tale Psychology",
6088 "Propp, Structure, and Cultural Identity",
6089 "Hoffmann and the Theory of the Fantastic",
6090 "Poe—Genres and Degrees of the Fantastic",
6091 "Lewis Carroll: Puzzles, Language, & Audience",
6092 "H. G. Wells: We Are All Talking Animals",
6093 "Franz Kafka—Dashed Fantasies",
6094 "Woolf—Fantastic Feminism & Periods of Art",
6095 "Robbe-Grillet, Experimental Fiction & Myth",
6096 "Tolkien & Mass Production of the Fantastic",
6097 "Children’s Literature and the Fantastic",
6098 "Postmodernism and the Fantastic",
6099 "Defining Science Fiction",
6100 "Mary Shelley—Grandmother of Science Fiction",
6101 "Hawthorne, Poe, and the Eden Complex",
6102 "Jules Verne and the Robinsonade",
6103 "Wells—Industrialization of the Fantastic",
6104 "The History of Utopia",
6105 "Science Fiction and Religion",
6106 "Pulp Fiction, Bradbury, & the American Myth",
6107 "Robert A. Heinlein—He Mapped the Future",
6108 "Asimov and Clarke—Cousins in Utopia",
6109 "Ursula K. Le Guin: Transhuman Anthropologist",
6110 "Cyberpunk, Postmodernism, and Beyond"
6111 ],
6112 "id" : 2997,
6113 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/masterpieces-of-the-imaginative-mind-literature-s-most-fantastic-works.html"
6114}{
6115 "professor" : "Professor Robert C. Bartlett, Ph.D.",
6116 "title" : "Masters of Greek Thought: Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle",
6117 "description" : "For more than two millennia, philosophers have grappled with life's most profound issues. It is easy to forget, however, that these \"eternal\" questions are not eternal at all; rather, they once had to be asked for the first time. It was the Athenian citizen and philosopher Socrates who first asked these questions in the 5th century B.C. \"Socrates,\" notes award-winning Professor Robert C. Bartlett, \"was responsible for a fundamentally new way of philosophizing\": trying to understand the world by reason.",
6118 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/4/4/4460---packaging_flat_4.1551362728.jpg",
6119 "lectures" : [
6120 "Socrates and His Heirs",
6121 "The Socratic Revolution",
6122 "Aristophanes's Comic Critique of Socrates",
6123 "Xenophon's Recollections of Socrates",
6124 "Xenophon and Socratic Philosophy",
6125 "Plato’s Socrates and the Platonic Dialogue",
6126 "Socrates as Teacher—Alcibiades",
6127 "Socrates and Justice—Republic, Part 1",
6128 "The Case against Justice—Republic, Part 2",
6129 "Building the Best City—Republic, Part 3",
6130 "Philosophers as Kings",
6131 "Socrates as Teacher of Justice",
6132 "Socrates versus the Sophists",
6133 "Protagoras Undone",
6134 "Socrates versus the Rhetoricians",
6135 "Rhetoric and Tyranny",
6136 "Callicles and the Problem of Justice",
6137 "What Is Virtue? Meno, Part 1",
6138 "Can Virtue Be Taught? Meno, Part 2",
6139 "The Trial of Socrates I—Euthyphro",
6140 "The Trial of Socrates II—Apology, Part 1",
6141 "The Trial of Socrates III—Apology, Part 2",
6142 "The Trial of Socrates IV—Crito",
6143 "The Socratic Revolution Revisited—Phaedo",
6144 "Aristotle and the Socratic Legacy",
6145 "The Problem of Happiness—Ethics 1",
6146 "Introduction to Moral Virtue—Ethics 2",
6147 "The Principal Moral Virtues—Ethics 3–5",
6148 "Prudence, Continence, Pleasure—Ethics 6–7",
6149 "Friendship—Ethics 8–9",
6150 "Philosophy and the Good Life—Ethics 10",
6151 "The Political Animal—Politics 1–2",
6152 "Justice and the Common Good—Politics 3",
6153 "Aristotle's Political Science—Politics 4–6",
6154 "The Best Regime—Politics 7–8",
6155 "Concluding Reflections"
6156 ],
6157 "id" : 4460,
6158 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/masters-of-greek-thought-plato-socrates-and-aristotle.html"
6159}{
6160 "professor" : "Professor David Thorburn, Ph.D.",
6161 "title" : "Masterworks of Early 20th-Century Literature",
6162 "description" : "Perhaps this has happened to you: You've picked up a great novel—James Joyce's Ulysses, Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, or William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! You launch in, ready to discover treasures in this great work of 20th-century fiction.",
6163 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/2/5/2539---packaging_flat_4.1551364077.jpg",
6164 "lectures" : [
6165 "Road Map—Modernism and Moral Ambiguity",
6166 "How to Read Fiction—Joyce's \"An Encounter\"",
6167 "Defining Modernism—Monet's Cathedral",
6168 "Defining Modernism—Beyond Impressionism",
6169 "The Man Who Would Be King—Imperial Fools",
6170 "Heart of Darkness—Europe's Kurtz",
6171 "Heart of Darkness—The Drama of the Telling",
6172 "The Shadow-Line—Unheroic Heroes",
6173 "The Good Soldier—The Limits of Irony",
6174 "The Good Soldier—Killed by Kindness",
6175 "Lawrence (and Joyce)—Sex in Modern Fiction",
6176 "\"Horse Dealer's Daughter\"—A Shimmer Within",
6177 "The Metamorphosis—Uneasy Dreams",
6178 "Dubliners—The Music of the Ordinary",
6179 "Ulysses—Joyce's Homer",
6180 "Ulysses—The Incongruity Principle",
6181 "To the Lighthouse—Life Stand Still Here",
6182 "To the Lighthouse—That Horrid Skull Again",
6183 "Isaac Babel—Jew and Cossack",
6184 "Isaac Babel—Odessa's Homer",
6185 "Faulkner's World—Our Frantic Steeplechase",
6186 "Absalom, Absalom!—The Fragile Thread",
6187 "Pale Fire—Modern or Postmodern?",
6188 "The Moral Vision of Modern Fiction"
6189 ],
6190 "id" : 2539,
6191 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/masterworks-of-early-20th-century-literature.html"
6192}{
6193 "professor" : "Professor Bonnie Wheeler, Ph.D.",
6194 "title" : "Medieval Heroines in History and Legend",
6195 "description" : "This course presents the lives, based on the latest scholarly interpretations, of four medieval women who still shimmer in the modern imagination: Heloise, the abbess and mistress of Abelard; the prophet Hildegard of Bingen; the legendary Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine; and the woman-warrior and saint, Joan of Arc.",
6196 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/2/9/2937---packaging_flat_4.1551363689.jpg",
6197 "lectures" : [
6198 "Four Remarkable Medieval Women",
6199 "The Revolutionary Twelfth Century",
6200 "Prodigious Heloise",
6201 "Abelard's Story of Abelard and Heloise",
6202 "Heloise as Lover—Her Sublime Submission",
6203 "Heloise, Adept Abbess and Mother",
6204 "Heloise of the Imagination",
6205 "Hildegard of Bingen, Sibyl of the Rhine",
6206 "Hildegard, Holy Hypochondriac",
6207 "Hildegard's Visionary Trilogy, Science and Letters",
6208 "Wholly Hildegard",
6209 "Eleanor's Lineage",
6210 "Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, Queen of France",
6211 "Eleanor and the Politics of Estrangement",
6212 "Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, Queen of England",
6213 "Eleanor the Dowager Queen",
6214 "Legendary Eleanor",
6215 "Joan of Arc and Her Times",
6216 "Joan Discovers Her Mission and Her Dauphin",
6217 "Joan the Warrior, Holy Berserker",
6218 "Joan's Success and Captivity",
6219 "Joan's Trial, Death, and Retrial",
6220 "Joan of the Imagination",
6221 "Four Pioneers"
6222 ],
6223 "id" : 2937,
6224 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/medieval-heroines-in-history-and-legend.html"
6225}{
6226 "professor" : "Professor Peter Saccio, Ph.D.",
6227 "title" : "Modern British Drama",
6228 "description" : "Waiting for Godot. The Importance of Being Earnest. Rosencrantz and Guildernstern Are Dead. Since Shakespeare's time, no period has produced more brilliant and varied theater in Britain than the last 100 years.",
6229 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/2/9/291---packaging_flat_5.1551370651.jpg",
6230 "lectures" : [
6231 "British Theater—1890–1990",
6232 "Comedy of Manners—Oscar Wilde and Noel Coward",
6233 "George Bernard Shaw—Socialist and Prophet",
6234 "John Osborne Looks Back in Anger",
6235 "Samuel Beckett Waits for Godot",
6236 "The Menace of Harold Pinter",
6237 "The Inventions of Tom Stoppard",
6238 "Political Theater—Caryl Churchill and David Hare"
6239 ],
6240 "id" : 291,
6241 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/modern-british-drama.html"
6242}{
6243 "professor" : "Professor Robert Whaples, Ph.D.",
6244 "title" : "Modern Economic Issues",
6245 "description" : "How do the major economic issues that dominate today's news—questions about gross domestic product or budget deficits or trade imbalances—impact the average citizen? Why are health insurance and college tuition increasingly expensive? What can be done about soaring energy prices?",
6246 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/5/6/5610---packaging_flat_4.1551362553.jpg",
6247 "lectures" : [
6248 "What Economists Know about Economic Policy",
6249 "Economy Up or Down? How to Tell",
6250 "Economists' View of the Future",
6251 "Productivity and Productivity Growth",
6252 "Inflation—Why the Measure Matters",
6253 "Unemployment—A Global Perspective",
6254 "Economic Inequality",
6255 "The Fallacy of Trade Barriers",
6256 "Trade Imbalances and Saving",
6257 "Budget Deficits—Past, Present, and Future",
6258 "Taxes and the Income Tax Code",
6259 "Rx for Social Security",
6260 "Economic Answers for an Aging Population",
6261 "Financing World-class Health Care",
6262 "Supply, Demand, and the Future of Oil",
6263 "Pollution—Tax or Trade?",
6264 "Global Climate Change—Costs and Benefits",
6265 "Minimum Wage and the Poverty Rate",
6266 "It Pays to Be Married",
6267 "Pay Gaps by Sex and Race",
6268 "Economic Impact of Immigration",
6269 "Labor Unions in Contemporary Economics",
6270 "Productivity Trends in Schools",
6271 "Higher Education—Supply and Demand",
6272 "Wal-Mart and Productivity Growth",
6273 "Corporate Governance in a Strong Economy",
6274 "Zero-Sum Game of Conspicuous Consumption",
6275 "Economic Upside of Postal Reforms",
6276 "Is Everything a Commodity?",
6277 "Economics of the Baseball Industry",
6278 "Examining Economic Response to Terrorism",
6279 "Helping Poor Countries",
6280 "Upsides and Downsides of Urban Sprawl",
6281 "Economic Costs and Benefits of Gambling",
6282 "Economists’ View of Overeating",
6283 "American Economy in the 21st Century"
6284 ],
6285 "id" : 5610,
6286 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/modern-economic-issues.html"
6287}{
6288 "professor" : "Professor Allen C. Guelzo, Ph.D.",
6289 "title" : "Mr. Lincoln: The Life of Abraham Lincoln",
6290 "description" : "John Locke Scripps, who had convinced Lincoln to write his first campaign autobiography, asserted that the 16th president had become \"the Great American Man—the grand central figure in American (perhaps the World's) History.\" Historians still find it hard to quibble with this opinion of Lincoln's place in the story of America. Lincoln was the central figure in the nation's greatest crisis, the Civil War. His achievements in office make as good a case as any that he was the greatest president in U.S. history.",
6291 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/8/5/8561---packaging_flat_4.1551363317.jpg",
6292 "lectures" : [
6293 "Young Man Lincoln",
6294 "Whig Meteor",
6295 "Lincoln, Law, and Politics",
6296 "The Mind of Abraham Lincoln",
6297 "Lincoln and Slavery",
6298 "The Great Debates",
6299 "Lincoln and Liberty, Too",
6300 "The Uncertain President",
6301 "The Emancipation Moment",
6302 "Lincoln’s Triumph",
6303 "The President’s Sword",
6304 "The Dream of Lincoln"
6305 ],
6306 "id" : 8561,
6307 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/mr-lincoln-the-life-of-abraham-lincoln.html"
6308}{
6309 "professor" : "Professor Joseph S. Nye Jr., Ph.D.",
6310 "title" : "Must History Repeat the Great Conflicts of This Century?",
6311 "description" : "Will the end of the Cold War bring peace and harmony or war and chaos? Is America going to play a dominant role in international affairs or is the U.S. in decline? Is military power still the key to world leadership or has economic power become more important? Should the U.S. attempt to play the role of global police force or should we withdraw from our overseas military commitments?",
6312 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/8/2/828---packaging_flat_4.1551373932.jpg",
6313 "lectures" : [
6314 "Continuity and Change in World Politics",
6315 "What Is an International System?",
6316 "The Balance of Power and Its Problems",
6317 "The Origins of the First World War",
6318 "The Problems and Promise of Collective Security",
6319 "The Origins of the Second World War",
6320 "The Origins of the Cold War",
6321 "Alternatives to the Present International System"
6322 ],
6323 "id" : 828,
6324 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/must-history-repeat-the-great-conflicts-of-this-century.html"
6325}{
6326 "professor" : "Father Joseph Koterski, S.J., Ph.D.",
6327 "title" : "Natural Law and Human Nature",
6328 "description" : "This course traces the origins and consequences of the theory of natural law. Natural law is the idea that there is an objective moral order, grounded in essential humanity, that holds universal and permanent implications for the ways we should conduct ourselves as free and responsible human beings.",
6329 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/4/4/4453---packaging_flat_4.1551365192.jpg",
6330 "lectures" : [
6331 "The Philosophical Approach",
6332 "The General Nature of Ethics",
6333 "Law, Nature, Natural Law",
6334 "Principles of Natural Law Theory",
6335 "Greek Ideas of Nature and Justice",
6336 "Aristotle's Clarification of \"Nature\"",
6337 "Aristotle on Justice and Politics",
6338 "The Stoic Idea of Natural Law",
6339 "Biblical Views of Nature and Law",
6340 "Early Christians, Nature, and Law",
6341 "Roman, Canon, and Natural Law",
6342 "The Thomistic Synthesis",
6343 "Late Medieval and Early Modern Views",
6344 "Hobbes and Locke",
6345 "Natural Law and the Founding Fathers",
6346 "Descartes, Rousseau, and Kant",
6347 "Can Rights Exist Without Natural Law?",
6348 "The Question of Evolution",
6349 "The Paradox of Cultural Relativism",
6350 "The Problem of God",
6351 "Current Applications—Jurisprudence",
6352 "Current Applications—Bioethics",
6353 "Current Applications—Social Ethics",
6354 "The Eternal Return of Natural Law"
6355 ],
6356 "id" : 4453,
6357 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/natural-law-and-human-nature.html"
6358}{
6359 "professor" : "Professor Bart D. Ehrman, Ph.D., M.Div.",
6360 "title" : "New Testament",
6361 "description" : "Whether you consider it a book of faith or a cultural artifact, the New Testament is among the most significant writings that the world has ever known. Scarcely a single major writer in the last 2,000 years has failed to rely on the web of meaning contained in the New Testament to communicate. Yet the New Testament is also among the most widely disputed and least clearly understood books in history.",
6362 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/6/5/656---packaging_flat_4.1551362488.jpg",
6363 "lectures" : [
6364 "The Early Christians and Their Literature",
6365 "The Greco-Roman Context",
6366 "Ancient Judaism",
6367 "The Earliest Traditions About Jesus",
6368 "Mark—Jesus the Suffering Son of God",
6369 "Matthew—Jesus the Jewish Messiah",
6370 "Luke—Jesus the Savior of the World",
6371 "John—Jesus the Man from Heaven",
6372 "Noncanonical Gospels",
6373 "The Historical Jesus—Sources and Problems",
6374 "The Historical Jesus—Solutions and Methods",
6375 "Jesus the Apocalyptic Prophet",
6376 "The Acts of the Apostles",
6377 "Paul—The Man, the Mission, and the Modus Operandi",
6378 "Paul and the Crises of His Churches—First Corinthians",
6379 "Pauline Ethics",
6380 "Paul’s Letter to the Romans",
6381 "Paul, Jesus, and James",
6382 "The Deutero-Pauline Epistles",
6383 "The Pastoral Epistles",
6384 "The Book of Hebrews and the Rise of Christian Anti-Semitism",
6385 "First Peter and the Persecution of the Early Christians",
6386 "The Book of Revelation",
6387 "Do We Have the Original New Testament?"
6388 ],
6389 "id" : 656,
6390 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/new-testament.html"
6391}{
6392 "professor" : "Professor Robert C. Solomon, Ph.D.",
6393 "title" : "No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life",
6394 "description" : "The message of Existentialism, unlike that of many more obscure and academic philosophical movements, is about as simple as can be. It is that every one of us, as an individual, is responsible—responsible for what we do, responsible for who we are, responsible for the way we face and deal with the world, responsible, ultimately, for the way the world is.",
6395 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/4/3/437---packaging_flat_4.1551362485.jpg",
6396 "lectures" : [
6397 "What Is Existentialism?",
6398 "Albert Camus—The Stranger, Part I",
6399 "Camus—The Stranger, Part II",
6400 "Camus—The Myth of Sisyphus",
6401 "Camus—The Plague and The Fall",
6402 "Camus—The Fall, Part II",
6403 "Søren Kierkegaard—“On Becoming a Christian”",
6404 "Kierkegaard on Subjective Truth",
6405 "Kierkegaard's Existential Dialectic",
6406 "Friedrich Nietzsche on Nihilism and the Death of God",
6407 "Nietzsche, the “Immoralist”",
6408 "Nietzsche on Freedom, Fate, and Responsibility",
6409 "Nietzsche—The Übermensch and the Will to Power",
6410 "Three Grand Inquisitors—Dostoevsky, Kafka, Hesse",
6411 "Husserl, Heidegger, and Phenomenology",
6412 "Heidegger on the World and the Self",
6413 "Heidegger on “Authenticity”",
6414 "Jean-Paul Sartre at War",
6415 "Sartre on Emotions and Responsibility",
6416 "Sartres Phenomenology",
6417 "Sartre on “Bad Faith”",
6418 "Sartre’s Being-for-Others and No Exit",
6419 "Sartre on Sex and Love",
6420 "From Existentialism to Postmodernism"
6421 ],
6422 "id" : 437,
6423 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/no-excuses-existentialism-and-the-meaning-of-life.html"
6424}{
6425 "professor" : "Professor Elizabeth Vandiver, Ph.D.",
6426 "title" : "Odyssey of Homer",
6427 "description" : "Keats compared discovering Homer to \"finding a new planet.\" What is it in Homer's great works—and especially the Odyssey—that so enthralled him? Why have readers before and since reacted the same way?",
6428 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/3/0/302---packaging_flat_4.1551368637.jpg",
6429 "lectures" : [
6430 "Heroes' Homecomings",
6431 "Guests and Hosts",
6432 "A Goddess and a Princess",
6433 "Odysseus among the Phaiakians",
6434 "Odysseus Tells His Own Story",
6435 "From Persephone's Land to the Island of Helios",
6436 "The Goddess, the Swineherd, and the Beggar",
6437 "Reunion and Return",
6438 "Odysseus and Penelope",
6439 "Recognitions and Revenge",
6440 "Reunion and Resolution",
6441 "The Trojan War and the Archaeologists"
6442 ],
6443 "id" : 302,
6444 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/odyssey-of-homer.html"
6445}{
6446 "professor" : "Professor Amy-Jill Levine, Ph.D.",
6447 "title" : "Old Testament",
6448 "description" : "The Old Testament, or Tanakh, was written in ancient Israel over 1,000 years by many authors. What can this book teach us about the ancient Israelites? What does our faith find in new scholarly understanding? As scripture or as the most influential piece of literature ever written, this book is a source of constant wonder, inspiration, and intrigue.",
6449 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/6/5/653---packaging_flat_4.1551366777.jpg",
6450 "lectures" : [
6451 "In the Beginning",
6452 "Adam and Eve",
6453 "Murder, Flood, Dispersion",
6454 "Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar",
6455 "Isaac",
6456 "The Jacob Saga",
6457 "Folklore Analysis and Type Scenes",
6458 "Moses and Exodus",
6459 "The God of Israel",
6460 "Covenant and Law, Part I",
6461 "Covenant and Law, Part II",
6462 "The “Conquest”",
6463 "The Book of Judges, Part I",
6464 "The Book of Judges, Part II",
6465 "Samuel and Saul",
6466 "King David",
6467 "From King Solomon to Preclassical Prophecy",
6468 "The Prophets and the Fall of the North",
6469 "The Southern Kingdom",
6470 "Babylonian Exile",
6471 "Restoration and Theocracy",
6472 "Wisdom Literature",
6473 "Life in the Diaspora",
6474 "Apocalyptic Literature"
6475 ],
6476 "id" : 653,
6477 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/old-testament.html"
6478}{
6479 "professor" : "Professor Robert Greenberg, Ph.D.",
6480 "title" : "Operas of Mozart",
6481 "description" : "By December 1791, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had written the defining compositions in every available musical genre of his time: symphony, chamber music, masses, and—above all—opera. Opera was the prestige genre of the time, and Mozart loved it dearly and counted on it heavily for personal, professional, artistic, and financial reasons. Just the thought of opera, as Mozart wrote, made him \"beside myself at once.\"",
6482 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/7/8/780---packaging_flat_4.1551369820.jpg",
6483 "lectures" : [
6484 "1789",
6485 "Così fan tutte, Part One",
6486 "Così fan tutte, Part Two",
6487 "Così fan tutte, Part Three",
6488 "Così fan tutte, Part Four",
6489 "Così fan tutte, Part Five",
6490 "Così fan tutte, Part Six",
6491 "Così fan tutte, Part Seven",
6492 "The First Works",
6493 "The Italian Apprenticeship",
6494 "The Professional, Part One",
6495 "The Professional, Part Two",
6496 "Vienna and Abduction",
6497 "Salieri, Da Ponte and The Marriage of Figaro",
6498 "Don Giovanni, Part One",
6499 "Don Giovanni, Part Two",
6500 "Mozart, Masonry and The Magic Flute",
6501 "The Magic Flute, Part Two",
6502 "The Magic Flute, Part Three",
6503 "The Magic Flute, Part Four",
6504 "The Magic Flute, Part Five",
6505 "The Magic Flute, Part Six",
6506 "The Magic Flute, Part Seven",
6507 "The Magic Flute, Part Eight"
6508 ],
6509 "id" : 780,
6510 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/operas-of-mozart.html"
6511}{
6512 "professor" : "Professor Peter C. Mancall, Ph.D.",
6513 "title" : "Origins and Ideologies of the American Revolution",
6514 "description" : "The years 1760–1800 rocked the Western world. These were the years when colonists on the eastern fringes of a continent converted Enlightenment thought first into action, then into government. Astonishing the world leaders of the day, they defied and broke away from their mother country, and then fashioned a republic capable of sustaining itself generation after generation.",
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6516 "lectures" : [
6517 "Self-Evident Truths",
6518 "Ideas and Ideologies",
6519 "Europeans of Colonial America",
6520 "Natives and Slaves of Colonial America",
6521 "The Colonies in the Atlantic World, c. 1750",
6522 "The Seven Years' War",
6523 "The British Constitution",
6524 "George III and the Politics of Empire",
6525 "Politics in British America before 1760",
6526 "James Otis and the Writs of Assistance Case",
6527 "The Search for Order and Revenue",
6528 "The Stamp Act and Rebellion in the Streets",
6529 "Parliament Digs in Its Heels, 1766–1767",
6530 "The Crisis of Representation",
6531 "The Logic of Loyalty and Resistance",
6532 "Franklin and the Search for Reconciliation",
6533 "The Boston Massacre",
6534 "The British Empire and the Tea Act",
6535 "The Boston Tea Party and the Coercive Acts",
6536 "The First Continental Congress",
6537 "Lexington and Concord",
6538 "Second Continental Congress and Bunker Hill",
6539 "Thomas Paine and Common Sense",
6540 "The British Seizure of New York",
6541 "The Declaration of Independence",
6542 "The War for New York and New Jersey",
6543 "Saratoga, Philadelphia, and Valley Forge",
6544 "The Creation of State Constitutions",
6545 "Jefferson's Statute for Religious Freedom",
6546 "Franklin, Paris, and the French Alliance",
6547 "The Articles of Confederation",
6548 "Yorktown and the End of the War",
6549 "The Treaty of Paris of 1783",
6550 "The Crises of the 1780s",
6551 "African Americans and the Revolution",
6552 "The Constitutional Convention",
6553 "The United States Constitution",
6554 "The Antifederalist Critique",
6555 "The Federalists' Response",
6556 "The Bill of Rights",
6557 "Politics in the 1790s",
6558 "The Alien and Sedition Acts",
6559 "The Election of 1800",
6560 "Women and the American Revolution",
6561 "The Revolution and Native Americans",
6562 "The American Revolution as Social Movement",
6563 "Reflections by the Revolutionary Generation",
6564 "The Meaning of the Revolution"
6565 ],
6566 "id" : 8520,
6567 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/origins-and-ideologies-of-the-american-revolution.html"
6568}{
6569 "professor" : "Professor Kenneth W. Harl, Ph.D.",
6570 "title" : "Origins of Great Ancient Civilizations",
6571 "description" : "The ancient civilizations of the Near East can seem remote. For many of us, places such as Mesopotamia or the Indus valley ... or the Hittite or Assyrian peoples ... or rulers such as Sargon, Hammurabi, and Darius ... are part of a long-dead antiquity, so shrouded with dust that we might be tempted to skip over them entirely, preferring to race forward along history's timeline in search of the riches we know will be found in our studies of Greece and Rome.",
6572 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/3/1/3174---packaging_flat_4.1551368605.jpg",
6573 "lectures" : [
6574 "Cradles of Civilization",
6575 "First Cities of Sumer",
6576 "Mesopotamian Kings and Scribes",
6577 "Hammurabi’s Babylon",
6578 "Egypt in the Pyramid Age",
6579 "The Middle Kingdom",
6580 "Imperial Egypt",
6581 "New Peoples of the Bronze Age",
6582 "The Collapse of the Bronze Age",
6583 "From Hebrews to Jews",
6584 "Imperial Assyria",
6585 "The Persian Empire"
6586 ],
6587 "id" : 3174,
6588 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/origins-of-great-ancient-civilizations.html"
6589}{
6590 "professor" : "Professor Robert M. Hazen, Ph.D.",
6591 "title" : "Origins of Life",
6592 "description" : "Four billion years ago, the infant Earth was a seething cauldron of erupting volcanoes, raining meteors, and hot noxious gases, totally devoid of life. But a relatively short time later—100 to 200 million years—the planet was teeming with primitive organisms. What happened?",
6593 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/1/5/1515---packaging_flat_4.1551365580.jpg",
6594 "lectures" : [
6595 "The Grand Question of Life’s Origins",
6596 "The Historical Setting of Origins Research",
6597 "What Is Life?",
6598 "Is There Life on Mars?",
6599 "Earth’s Oldest Fossils",
6600 "Fossil Isotopes",
6601 "Molecular Biosignatures",
6602 "Emergence",
6603 "The Miller-Urey Experiment",
6604 "Life from the Bottom of the Sea",
6605 "The Deep, Hot Biosphere",
6606 "Experiments at High Pressure",
6607 "More Experiments Under Pressure",
6608 "Deep Space Dust, Molten Rock, and Zeolite",
6609 "Macromolecules and the Tree of Life",
6610 "Lipids and Membrane Self-Organization",
6611 "Life on Clay, Clay as Life",
6612 "Life’s Curious Handedness",
6613 "Self-Replicating Molecular Systems",
6614 "Günter Wächtershäuser’s Grand Hypothesis",
6615 "The RNA World",
6616 "The Pre-RNA World",
6617 "Natural Selection and Competition",
6618 "Three Scenarios for the Origin of Life"
6619 ],
6620 "id" : 1515,
6621 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/origins-of-life.html"
6622}{
6623 "professor" : "Professor Teofilo F. Ruiz, Ph.D.",
6624 "title" : "Other 1492: Ferdinand, Isabella, and the Making of an Empire",
6625 "description" : "In 1492, there was no country called Spain and no language called Spanish. The biggest event of the year, in the region that would become Spain, was the surrender of the last Muslim stronghold, Granada. The Edict of Expulsion gave Jews three months to either convert to Christianity or leave the Kingdom of Castile and the Crown of Aragon.",
6626 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/8/9/899---packaging_flat_4.1551364661.jpg",
6627 "lectures" : [
6628 "Europe and the New World in 1492",
6629 "Reconquest, Pilgrimage, Crusade, Repopulation",
6630 "The Transformation of Values",
6631 "An Age of Crisis",
6632 "Isabella and Ferdinand—An Age of Reform",
6633 "Iberian Culture in the Fifteenth Century",
6634 "The Conquest of Granada—Muslim Life in Iberia",
6635 "The Edict of Expulsion—Jewish Life in Iberia",
6636 "Jews, Conversos, and the Inquisition",
6637 "The World of Christopher Columbus",
6638 "The Shock of the New",
6639 "Spain and Its Empire—The Aftermath of 1492"
6640 ],
6641 "id" : 899,
6642 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/other-1492-ferdinand-isabella-and-the-making-of-an-empire.html"
6643}{
6644 "professor" : "Professor Steven Pollock, Ph.D.",
6645 "title" : "Particle Physics for Non-Physicists: A Tour of the Microcosmos",
6646 "description" : "This two-part series explains, in easily accessible terms, the discovery of the infinitely small particles-the quarks and neutrinos, muons and bosons-that make up everything in nature, from microbes to stars.",
6647 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/1/2/1247---packaging_flat_4.1551362694.jpg",
6648 "lectures" : [
6649 "Nature of Physics",
6650 "Standard Model of Particle Physics",
6651 "Pre-History of Particle Physics",
6652 "Birth of Modern Physics",
6653 "Quantum Mechanics Gets Serious",
6654 "New Particles & New Technologies",
6655 "Weak Interactions & the Neutrino",
6656 "Accelerators & Particle Explosion",
6657 "Particle \"Zoo\"",
6658 "Fields & Forces",
6659 "\"Three Quarks for Muster Mark\"",
6660 "From Quarks to QCD",
6661 "Symmetry & Conservation Laws",
6662 "Broken Symmetry, Shattered Mirrors",
6663 "November Revolution of 1974",
6664 "A New Generation",
6665 "Weak Forces & the Standard Model",
6666 "Greatest Success Story in Physics",
6667 "The Higgs Particle",
6668 "Solar Neutrino Puzzle",
6669 "Back to the Future (1)—Experiments to Come",
6670 "Back to the Future (2)—Puzzles & Progress",
6671 "Really Big Stuff—The Origin of the Universe",
6672 "Looking Back & Looking Forward"
6673 ],
6674 "id" : 1247,
6675 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/particle-physics-for-non-physicists-a-tour-of-the-microcosmos.html"
6676}{
6677 "professor" : "Professor Kenneth W. Harl, Ph.D.",
6678 "title" : "Peloponnesian War",
6679 "description" : "The ancient Greek historian Thucydides called it \"a war like no other\"—arguably the greatest in the history of the world up to that time. The Peloponnesian War pitted Athens and her allies against a league of city-states headed by Sparta. Thucydides himself was an Athenian general in the fighting, sentenced to exile partway through the 27-year struggle, after losing a key battle to one of Sparta's leading commanders.",
6680 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/3/3/3372---packaging_flat_4.1551365879.jpg",
6681 "lectures" : [
6682 "Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War",
6683 "The Greek Way of War",
6684 "Sparta—Perceptions and Prejudices",
6685 "Sparta and Her Allies",
6686 "The Athenian Democracy",
6687 "Athens and the Navy",
6688 "Victory over Persia, 490–479 B.C.",
6689 "Athens or Sparta—A Question of Leadership",
6690 "Cimonian Imperialism",
6691 "Sparta after the Persian Wars",
6692 "The First Peloponnesian War",
6693 "The Thirty Years' Peace",
6694 "Triumph of the Radical Democracy",
6695 "From Delian League to Athenian Empire",
6696 "Economy and Society of Imperial Athens",
6697 "Athens, School of Greece",
6698 "Crisis in Corcyra, 435–432 B.C.",
6699 "Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War",
6700 "Strategies and Stalemate, 431–429 B.C.",
6701 "Athenian Victory in Northwest Greece",
6702 "Imperial Crisis—The Chalcidice and Mytilene",
6703 "Plague, Fiscal Crisis, and War",
6704 "Demagogues and Stasis",
6705 "Pylos, 425 B.C.—A Test of Leadership",
6706 "New Leaders and New Strategies",
6707 "The Peace of Nicias",
6708 "Collapse of the Peace of Nicias",
6709 "From Mantinea to Sicily, 418–415 B.C.",
6710 "Sparta, Athens, and the Western Greeks",
6711 "The Athenian Expedition to Sicily",
6712 "Alcibiades and Sparta, 414–412 B.C.",
6713 "Conspiracy and Revolution, 411 B.C.",
6714 "Alcibiades and Athens, 411–406 B.C.",
6715 "The Defeat of Athens, 406–404 B.C.",
6716 "Sparta's Bitter Victory",
6717 "Lessons of the Peloponnesian War"
6718 ],
6719 "id" : 3372,
6720 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/peloponnesian-war.html"
6721}{
6722 "professor" : "Professor Edward Fischer, Ph.D.",
6723 "title" : "Peoples and Cultures of the World",
6724 "description" : "Why is anthropology such an inherently fascinating subject? Because it's all about us: human beings. As the \"science of humanity,\" anthropology can help us understand virtually anything about ourselves—from our political and economic systems, to why we get married, to how we decide to buy a particular bottle of wine.",
6725 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/4/6/4617---packaging_flat_4.1551363702.jpg",
6726 "lectures" : [
6727 "The Study of Humanity",
6728 "The Four Fields of Anthropology",
6729 "Culture and Relativity",
6730 "Fieldwork and the Anthropological Method",
6731 "Nature, Nurture, and Human Behavior",
6732 "Languages, Dialects, and Social Categories",
6733 "Language and Thought",
6734 "Constructing Emotions and Identities",
6735 "Magic, Religion, and Codes of Conduct",
6736 "Rites of Passage",
6737 "Family, Marriage, and Incest",
6738 "Multiple Spouses and Matrilineality",
6739 "Gatherers and Hunters",
6740 "Headmen and Horticulturists",
6741 "Cannibalism and Violence",
6742 "The Role of Reciprocity",
6743 "Chiefdoms and Redistribution",
6744 "Cultural Contact and Colonialism",
6745 "Cultures of Capitalism",
6746 "Is Economics Rational?",
6747 "Late Capitalism—From Ford to Disney",
6748 "The Maya, Ancient and Modern",
6749 "Maya Resurgence in Guatemala and Mexico",
6750 "The Janus Face of Globalization"
6751 ],
6752 "id" : 4617,
6753 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/peoples-and-cultures-of-the-world.html"
6754}{
6755 "professor" : "Professor Stephen A. Erickson, Ph.D.",
6756 "title" : "Philosophy as a Guide to Living",
6757 "description" : "Is there meaning in human life? All of us have asked ourselves this question. But for philosophers through the ages, it was the first question of many, for they needed to know whether such a question was even answerable by philosophy. And if it was, they needed to ask whether any positive answer could be pursued through the practice of philosophy itself.",
6758 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/4/2/4244---packaging_flat_4.1551392892.jpg",
6759 "lectures" : [
6760 "The Axial Model",
6761 "Kant’s Hopeful Program",
6762 "The Kantian Legacy",
6763 "Kant and the Romantic Reaction",
6764 "Hegel on the Human Spirit",
6765 "Hegel on State and Society",
6766 "Hegel on Selfhood and Human Identity",
6767 "Schopenhauer’s Pessimism",
6768 "Schopenhauer’s Remedies",
6769 "Alienation in Marx",
6770 "Marx’s Utopian Hope",
6771 "Kierkegaard’s Crises",
6772 "Kierkegaard’s Passion",
6773 "Why God Died—Nietzsche’s Claim",
6774 "Nietzsche’s Dream",
6775 "Freud’s Nightmare",
6776 "Freud on Our Origins",
6777 "Psychoanalytic Visions in and after Freud",
6778 "Heidegger on the Meaning of Meaning",
6779 "Heidegger on Technology’s Threat",
6780 "Heidegger’s Politics and Legacy",
6781 "The Human Situation—Sartre and Camus",
6782 "Power and Reason—Foucault and Habermas",
6783 "Today’s Provocative Landscape—Thresholding"
6784 ],
6785 "id" : 4244,
6786 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/philosophy-as-a-guide-to-living.html"
6787}{
6788 "professor" : "Professor Patrick Grim, Ph.D.",
6789 "title" : "Philosophy of Mind: Brains, Consciousness, and Thinking Machines",
6790 "description" : "Nothing in the universe is more mysterious than the inner workings of the human mind. The attempt to understand consciousness is the ultimate imperative in philosophical thought and stems from the ancient Greek aphorism, \"know thyself.\" A simple statement, it nevertheless has vast ramifications for how we understand not only ourselves, but also the people around us.",
6791 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/4/2/4278---packaging_flat_4.1551366073.jpg",
6792 "lectures" : [
6793 "The Dream, the Brain, and the Machine",
6794 "The Mind-Body Problem",
6795 "Brains and Minds, Parts and Wholes",
6796 "The Inner Theater",
6797 "Living in the Material World",
6798 "A Functional Approach to the Mind",
6799 "What Is It about Robots?",
6800 "Body Image",
6801 "Self-Identity and Other Minds",
6802 "Perception—What Do You Really See?",
6803 "Perception—Intentionality and Evolution",
6804 "A Mind in the World",
6805 "A History of Smart Machines",
6806 "Intelligence and IQ",
6807 "Artificial Intelligence",
6808 "Brains and Computers",
6809 "Attacks on Artificial Intelligence",
6810 "Do We Have Free Will?",
6811 "Seeing and Believing",
6812 "Mysteries of Color",
6813 "The Hard Problem of Consciousness",
6814 "The Conscious Brain—2½ Physical Theories",
6815 "The HOT Theory and Antitheories",
6816 "What We Know and What We Don't Know"
6817 ],
6818 "id" : 4278,
6819 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/philosophy-of-mind-brains-consciousness-and-thinking-machines.html"
6820}{
6821 "professor" : "Professor James Hall, Ph.D.",
6822 "title" : "Philosophy of Religion",
6823 "description" : "Can humans know whether the claim \"God exists\" is true or not? If so, how? If not, why not? Questions such as these have perplexed humans since the first moment we were capable of asking them. Now in Philosophy of Religion you can explore the questions of divine existence with the tools of epistemology, the branch of philosophy that concerns itself with what we can know.",
6824 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/4/6/4680---packaging_flat_4.1551366634.jpg",
6825 "lectures" : [
6826 "What is Philosophy?",
6827 "What is Religion?",
6828 "What is Philosophy of Religion?",
6829 "How is the Word \"God\" Generally Used?",
6830 "How Do Various Theists Use the Word \"God\"?",
6831 "What is Knowledge?",
6832 "What Kinds of Evidence Count?",
6833 "What Constitutes Good Evidence?",
6834 "Why Argue for the Existence of God?",
6835 "How Ontological Argument Works",
6836 "Why Ontological Argument is Said to Fail",
6837 "How Cosmological Argument Works",
6838 "Why Cosmological Argument is Said to Fail",
6839 "How Teleological Argument Works",
6840 "How Teleological Argument Works (continued)",
6841 "Why Teleological Argument is Said to Fail",
6842 "Divine Encounters Make Argument Unnecessary",
6843 "Divine Encounters Require Interpretation",
6844 "Why is Evil a Problem?",
6845 "Taking Evil Seriously",
6846 "Non-Justificatory Theodicies",
6847 "Justifying Evil",
6848 "Justifying Natural Evil",
6849 "Justifying Human Evil",
6850 "Evidence is Irrelevant to Faith",
6851 "Groundless Faith is Irrelevant to Life",
6852 "God is Beyond Human Grasp, But That's O.K.",
6853 "Transcendental Talk is \"Sound and Fury\"",
6854 "Discourse in an Intentionalist Paradigm",
6855 "Evaluating Paradigms",
6856 "Choosing and Changing Paradigms",
6857 "Language Games and Theistic Discourse",
6858 "Fabulation—Theism as Story",
6859 "Theistic Stories, Morality, and Culture",
6860 "Stories, Moral Progress, and Culture Reform",
6861 "Conclusions and Signposts"
6862 ],
6863 "id" : 4680,
6864 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/philosophy-of-religion.html"
6865}{
6866 "professor" : "Professor Jeffrey L. Kasser, Ph.D.",
6867 "title" : "Philosophy of Science",
6868 "description" : "Science can't be free of philosophy any more than baseball can be free of physics. With this bold intellectual swing for the fences, philosopher Jeffrey L. Kasser uses the tools of philosophy to launch an ambitious and exciting inquiry into what makes science science. In this brilliant course you will discuss",
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6870 "lectures" : [
6871 "Science and Philosophy",
6872 "Popper and the Problem of Demarcation",
6873 "Further Thoughts on Demarcation",
6874 "Einstein, Measurement, and Meaning",
6875 "Classical Empiricism",
6876 "Logical Positivism and Verifiability",
6877 "Logical Positivism, Science, and Meaning",
6878 "Holism",
6879 "Discovery and Justification",
6880 "Induction as Illegitimate",
6881 "Some Solutions and a New Riddle",
6882 "Instances and Consequences",
6883 "Kuhn and the Challenge of History",
6884 "Revolutions and Rationality",
6885 "Assessment of Kuhn",
6886 "For and Against Method",
6887 "Sociology, Postmodernism, and Science Wars",
6888 "(How) Does Science Explain?",
6889 "Putting the Cause Back in \"Because\"",
6890 "Probability, Pragmatics, and Unification",
6891 "Laws and Regularities",
6892 "Laws and Necessity",
6893 "Reduction and Progress",
6894 "Reduction and Physicalism",
6895 "New Views of Meaning and Reference",
6896 "Scientific Realism",
6897 "Success, Experience, and Explanation",
6898 "Realism and Naturalism",
6899 "Values and Objectivity",
6900 "Probability",
6901 "Bayesianism",
6902 "Problems with Bayesianism",
6903 "Entropy and Explanation",
6904 "Species and Reality",
6905 "The Elimination of Persons?",
6906 "Philosophy and Science"
6907 ],
6908 "id" : 4100,
6909 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/philosophy-of-science.html"
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6911 "professor" : "Professor Michael Sugrue, Ph.D.",
6912 "title" : "Plato, Socrates, and the Dialogues",
6913 "description" : "Socrates was driven by a love for truth so great that he suffered death rather than give up his search. Though he never wrote down his thoughts, he had a brilliant pupil in Plato, who immortalized his teacher's legacy in 35 timeless dialogues that laid the philosophical basis for Western civilization. In fact Alfred North Whitehead once famously remarked, all of philosophy is but a footnote to Plato.",
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6915 "lectures" : [
6916 "The Domain of the Dialogues",
6917 "What Socratic Dialogue Is Not",
6918 "The Examined Life",
6919 "Tragedy in the Philosophic Age of the Greeks",
6920 "Republic I—Justice, Power, and Knowledge",
6921 "Republic II–V—Soul and City",
6922 "Republic VI–X—The Architecture of Reality",
6923 "Laws—The Legacy of Cephalus",
6924 "Protagoras—The Dialectic of the Many and the One",
6925 "Gorgias—The Temptation to Speak",
6926 "Parmenides—\"Most True\"",
6927 "Sophist and Statesman—The Formal Disintegration of Justice",
6928 "Phaedrus—Hymn to Love",
6929 "Symposium—The Pride of Love",
6930 "The Platonic Achievement",
6931 "The Living Voice"
6932 ],
6933 "id" : 463,
6934 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/plato-socrates-and-the-dialogues.html"
6935}{
6936 "professor" : "Professor David Roochnik, Ph.D.",
6937 "title" : "Plato's Republic",
6938 "description" : "It is the first work in the history of Western political philosophy and, arguably, the most influential—so influential that the entire European philosophical tradition has been described as being nothing more than a \"series of footnotes\" to its author. Yet Plato's Republic, more than 2,000 years after its appearance, and in spite of the many provocative directions those footnotes have taken, still remains astonishingly relevant in its own right.",
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6940 "lectures" : [
6941 "Plato’s Life and Times",
6942 "Book I—The Title and the Setting",
6943 "Book I—Socrates versus Thrasymachus",
6944 "Book II—The City-Soul Analogy",
6945 "Books II and III—Censorship",
6946 "Book III—The Noble Lie",
6947 "Book III—Socrates's Medical Ethics",
6948 "Book IV—Justice in the City and Soul",
6949 "Book V—Feminism",
6950 "Book V—Who Is the Philosopher?",
6951 "Book VI—The Ship of State",
6952 "Book VI—The Idea of the Good",
6953 "Book VI—The Divided Line",
6954 "Book VII—The Parable of the Cave",
6955 "Book VII—The Education of the Guardians",
6956 "Book VIII—The Perfectly Just City Fails",
6957 "Books VIII and IX—The Mistaken Regimes",
6958 "Book VIII—Socrates's Critique of Democracy",
6959 "Books VIII and IX—The Critique of Tyranny",
6960 "Book IX—The Superiority of Justice",
6961 "Book X—Philosophy versus Poetry",
6962 "Book X—The Myth of Er",
6963 "Summary and Overview",
6964 "The Legacy of Plato's Republic"
6965 ],
6966 "id" : 4537,
6967 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/plato-s-republic.html"
6968}{
6969 "professor" : "Professor Thomas F. X. Noble, Ph.D.",
6970 "title" : "Popes and the Papacy: A History",
6971 "description" : "The papacy is the oldest continuously functioning institution in the world. Developed c. A.D. 30 when Jesus invested his disciple Peter with the authority to create a church, the Bishops of Rome grew their organization from a small flock of persecuted worshipers to a religion that counts one-sixth of the world's population as members.",
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6973 "lectures" : [
6974 "What Is Papal History? When Did It Begin?",
6975 "The Rise of the Petrine Idea",
6976 "Popes, Byzantines, and Barbarians",
6977 "The Popes in the Age of Charlemagne",
6978 "Rome, the Popes, and the Papal Government",
6979 "The “Age of Iron”",
6980 "The Investiture Controversy",
6981 "The Papal Monarchy—Institutions",
6982 "The Papal Monarchy—Politics",
6983 "The Popes at Avignon",
6984 "The Great Schism",
6985 "The Renaissance Papacy—Politics",
6986 "The Renaissance Papacy—Culture",
6987 "The Challenge of Reform—Protestantism",
6988 "Catholic Reform and Counter Reform",
6989 "Absolutism, Enlightenment, and Revolution",
6990 "Pius IX—Prisoner of the Vatican",
6991 "The Challenge of Modernism",
6992 "The Troubled Pontificate of Pius XII",
6993 "The Age of Vatican II",
6994 "The Transitional Pontificate of Paul VI",
6995 "The Vatican and What It Does",
6996 "John Paul II—“The Great”?",
6997 "Benedict XVI, the Future, and the Past"
6998 ],
6999 "id" : 6672,
7000 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/popes-and-the-papacy-a-history.html"
7001}{
7002 "professor" : "Professor Dennis Dalton, Ph.D.",
7003 "title" : "Power over People: Classical and Modern Political Theory",
7004 "description" : "Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Marx, Gandhi—these exceptional thinkers sculpted, piece by piece, Western political thought from its inception in 5th-century (B.C.) Athens.In so doing, they grappled with such imposing questions as:",
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7006 "lectures" : [
7007 "The Hindu Vision of Life",
7008 "Thucydides and The Peloponnesian War",
7009 "Law and Rule in Sophocles’s Antigone",
7010 "Socrates and the Socratic Quest",
7011 "Plato—Idealism and Power, Part I",
7012 "Plato—Idealism and Power, Part II",
7013 "Aristotle’s Critique of Plato’s Republic",
7014 "Machiavelli’s Theory of Power Politics",
7015 "Rousseau’s Theory of Human Nature and Society",
7016 "Marx’s Critique of Capitalism and Solution of Communism",
7017 "Freud’s Theory of Human Nature and Civilization",
7018 "Thoreau’s Theory of Civil Disobedience",
7019 "Dostoyevsky’s Grand Inquisitor",
7020 "The Idea of Anarchism and the Example of Emma Goldman",
7021 "Hitler’s Use of Power",
7022 "Gandhi's Use of Power"
7023 ],
7024 "id" : 443,
7025 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/power-over-people-classical-and-modern-political-theory.html"
7026}{
7027 "professor" : "Professor Luke Timothy Johnson, Ph.D.",
7028 "title" : "Practical Philosophy: The Greco-Roman Moralists",
7029 "description" : "Hide Full Description",
7030 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/4/4/4473---packaging_flat_4.1551367277.jpg",
7031 "lectures" : [
7032 "The World of the Greco-Roman Moralists",
7033 "How Empire Changed Philosophy",
7034 "The Great Schools and Their Battles",
7035 "Dominant Themes and Metaphors",
7036 "The Ideal Philosopher—A Composite Portrait",
7037 "The Charlatan—Philosophy Betrayed",
7038 "Philosophy Satirized—The Comic Lucian",
7039 "Cicero—The Philosopher as Politician",
7040 "Seneca—Philosopher as Court Advisor",
7041 "Good Roman Advice—Cicero and Seneca",
7042 "Musonius Rufus—The Roman Socrates",
7043 "Dio Chrysostom—The Wandering Rhetorician",
7044 "Dio Chrysostom—Preaching Peace and Piety",
7045 "Epictetus—Philosopher as School Teacher",
7046 "Epictetus—The Stotic Path to Virtue",
7047 "Epictetus—The Messenger of Zeus",
7048 "Marcus Aurelius—Meditations of the King",
7049 "Jews Thinking Like Greeks",
7050 "Philo—Judaism as Greek Philosophy",
7051 "Plutarch—Biography as Moral Instruction",
7052 "Plutarch and Philosophical Religion",
7053 "Plutarch on Virtue and Educating Children",
7054 "Plutarch—Envy, Anger, and Talking Too Much",
7055 "The Missing Page in Philosophy’s Story"
7056 ],
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7058 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/practical-philosophy-the-greco-roman-moralists.html"
7059}{
7060 "professor" : "Professor David W. Martin, Ph.D.",
7061 "title" : "Psychology of Human Behavior",
7062 "description" : "What comes to mind when you picture a psychologist? If you're like most people coming to this fascinating field for the first time, the answer may include a leather couch and a scholarly looking gentleman quietly taking notes and occasionally nodding. In some ways, such a picture would be accurate, a confirmation not only of the importance of Sigmund Freud in the history of psychology but also of the degree Freud dominates the popular perception of this discipline.",
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7064 "lectures" : [
7065 "Modern Psychology in Historical Context",
7066 "Experimentation as a Research Method",
7067 "Nonexperimental Research Methods",
7068 "Evolutionary Theory and Modern Psychology",
7069 "Freud’s Thinking",
7070 "Details of Psychoanalytic Theory",
7071 "Classification of Mental Illnesses",
7072 "Anxiety and Mood Disorders",
7073 "Disorders of Brain, Body, Self, Drugs, Sex",
7074 "Schizophrenic Disorders",
7075 "Childhood, Retardation, Personality Disorders",
7076 "Physical Therapies—Drugs",
7077 "Physical Therapies—ECT, Surgery, Genes",
7078 "Talking Therapies—Psychoanalysis",
7079 "Therapies—Humanistic, Cognitive, Group",
7080 "Behavior Therapies—Classical Conditioning",
7081 "Behavior Therapies—Operant Conditioning",
7082 "Models of Motivation",
7083 "Emotion—What Do We Measure?",
7084 "Emotion—Theories",
7085 "Psychoactive Drugs—Processes, Stimulants",
7086 "Drugs—Depressants, Narcotics, Hallucinogens",
7087 "Social Psychology—Influence and Reciprocity",
7088 "Social Psychology—Additional Mechanisms",
7089 "Simple Learning—Classical Conditioning",
7090 "Simple Learning—Operant Conditioning",
7091 "Complex Learning",
7092 "Memory—Characteristics",
7093 "Memory—Memory Aids and Forgetting Theories",
7094 "Perception—Forming Internal Models",
7095 "Perception—Finding and Organizing Cues",
7096 "Evolutionary Psychology—Basic Concepts",
7097 "Evolutionary Psychology—Altruism and Mating",
7098 "Evolutionary Psychology—War, Family, Food",
7099 "Engineering Psychology",
7100 "Recap, Omissions, and Into the Future"
7101 ],
7102 "id" : 1620,
7103 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/psychology-of-human-behavior.html"
7104}{
7105 "professor" : "Professor Robert H. Kane, Ph.D.",
7106 "title" : "Quest for Meaning: Values, Ethics, and the Modern Experience",
7107 "description" : "What are true human values? What is worthy of our highest honor and love? What purposes should order our existence? Is there any objective way to tell right from wrong? If life indeed has a meaning, can it be known and stated? What form would that knowledge and statement take?",
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7109 "lectures" : [
7110 "Values and Modernity",
7111 "An Ancient Quest, A Modern Challenge",
7112 "Pluralism, Religion, and Alien Cultures",
7113 "Are Values Subjective?",
7114 "From Experience to Worth",
7115 "Hume and the Challenge of Relativism",
7116 "Cultural Diversity, Human Nature, and the Social Sciences",
7117 "Kant’s Appeal to Reason",
7118 "Bentham, Mill, and the Appeal to Utility",
7119 "Social-Contract Theories (Part I)",
7120 "Social-Contract Theories (Part II)",
7121 "Some Critiques of the Modern Project",
7122 "Retrieving the Quest for Wisdom",
7123 "Wisdom, Ancient and Modern",
7124 "Dilemmas of Might and Right",
7125 "Public and Private Morality (Part I)",
7126 "Public and Private Morality (Part II)",
7127 "Plato on the State, the Soul, and Democracy",
7128 "Democracy and Its Discontents",
7129 "The Parable of the Retreat",
7130 "Searches in the Realm of Aspiration",
7131 "Love and Glory, the Same Old Story",
7132 "The Mosaic of Value",
7133 "Meaning and Belief in a Pluralist Age"
7134 ],
7135 "id" : 455,
7136 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/quest-for-meaning-values-ethics-and-the-modern-experience.html"
7137}{
7138 "professor" : "Professor Patrick Grim, Ph.D.",
7139 "title" : "Questions of Value",
7140 "description" : "Our lives are filled with everyday questions of fact and finance. Which investment brings the highest return? What school district is the house in? What will this candidate do if elected? But the really fundamental questions of our lives, says Professor Patrick Grim, are questions of neither fact nor finance. They are questions of value. They are the deep questions that apply to every aspect of our lives.",
7141 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/4/4/4433---packaging_flat_4.1551363067.jpg",
7142 "lectures" : [
7143 "Questions of Value",
7144 "Facts and Values",
7145 "Lives to Envy, Lives to Admire",
7146 "Foundations of Ethics—Theories of the Good",
7147 "Foundations of Ethics—Theories of the Right",
7148 "Thoughts on Religion and Values",
7149 "Life’s Priorities",
7150 "The Cash Value of a Life",
7151 "How Do We Know Right from Wrong?",
7152 "Cultures and Values—Questions of Relativism",
7153 "Cultures and Values—Hopi, Navajo, and Ik",
7154 "Evolution, Ethics, and Game Theory",
7155 "The Objective Side of Value",
7156 "Better Off Dead",
7157 "A Picture of Justice",
7158 "Life’s Horrors",
7159 "A Genealogy of My Morals",
7160 "Theories of Punishment",
7161 "Choice and Chance",
7162 "Free Will and Determinism",
7163 "Images of Immortality",
7164 "Ethical Knowledge, Rationality, and Rules",
7165 "Moralities in Conflict and in Change",
7166 "Summing Up"
7167 ],
7168 "id" : 4433,
7169 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/questions-of-value.html"
7170}{
7171 "professor" : "Professor Glenn S. Holland, Ph.D.",
7172 "title" : "Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World",
7173 "description" : "How did people of ancient times cope with the overwhelming mysteries of the universe? The cycles of nature kept predictable time with the sun, moon, and stars; yet, without warning, crops failed, diseases struck, storms wreaked havoc, and empires fell.",
7174 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/6/3/6340---packaging_flat_4.1551365755.jpg",
7175 "lectures" : [
7176 "Talking About Ancient Religious Cultures",
7177 "What is Religion?",
7178 "Early Prehistoric Religion",
7179 "Prehistoric Religion—The Neolithic Era",
7180 "Egypt—A Unique Religious Culture",
7181 "Egyptian Creation Stories and Their Meaning",
7182 "The Egyptian Pantheon",
7183 "Egyptian Myths of Kingship",
7184 "Egyptian Myths of the Underworld",
7185 "Egypt—The Power of Goddesses",
7186 "Egypt—Religion in Everyday Life",
7187 "Egypt—The Beginning of Wisdom",
7188 "Mesopotamia—The Land Between the Rivers",
7189 "Mesopotamia—Stories of Creation",
7190 "Mesopotamia—Inanna the Goddess",
7191 "Mesopotamia—Gilgamesh the King",
7192 "Mesopotamia—The Search for Eternal Life",
7193 "Mesopotamia—The Great Flood",
7194 "Ancient Concepts of the Divine",
7195 "The Gods of Syria-Palestine",
7196 "Israel's Ancestral History",
7197 "Israel's National History",
7198 "Prophecy in the Ancient Near East",
7199 "Early Prophecy in Israel",
7200 "Classical Israelite Prophecy",
7201 "Israel's Great Crisis",
7202 "Syria-Palestine—The Problem of Evil",
7203 "Early Aegean Civilizations",
7204 "Religious Culture in the Iliad and the Odyssey",
7205 "Religious Culture in Archaic Greece",
7206 "Greece—How Things Came to Be",
7207 "Greece—The Goddess",
7208 "The Classical Era in Greece",
7209 "Greece—Philosophy as Religion",
7210 "Religious Culture in the Hellenistic World",
7211 "Mystery Religions in the Hellenistic World",
7212 "Mystery Religions from the East",
7213 "Roman Religious Culture Before the Empire",
7214 "Rome—Saviors and Divine Men",
7215 "Rome—Divination, Astrology, and Magic",
7216 "Rome—Critics and Charlatans",
7217 "Jesus of Nazareth as a Figure in History",
7218 "Creating Jesus Communities",
7219 "Living and Dying for the God(s)",
7220 "Women's Religious Roles in the Early Empire",
7221 "The Jesus Movement in the Greco-Roman World",
7222 "The Death and Rebirth of the Old Gods",
7223 "Conclusion—Persisting Ideas and Yearnings"
7224 ],
7225 "id" : 6340,
7226 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/religion-in-the-ancient-mediterranean-world.html"
7227}{
7228 "professor" : "Professor Mark W. Muesse, Ph.D.",
7229 "title" : "Religions of the Axial Age: An Approach to the World's Religions",
7230 "description" : "What could the beliefs and traditions of a Zoroastrian, a person of Jewish faith, a Buddhist, a follower of Confucius, or a Christian have in common? How do religions evolve over time?",
7231 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/6/3/6312---packaging_flat_4.1551367207.jpg",
7232 "lectures" : [
7233 "What Was the Axial Age?",
7234 "The Noble Ones",
7235 "The World of Zoroaster",
7236 "Zoroaster's Legacy",
7237 "South Asia before the Axial Age",
7238 "The Start of the Indian Axial Age",
7239 "Death and Rebirth",
7240 "The Quest for Liberation",
7241 "The Vedantic Solution",
7242 "The One and the Many",
7243 "The Life of Siddhattha Gotama",
7244 "\"I am Awake\"",
7245 "Why We Suffer",
7246 "The Noble Path",
7247 "From Buddha to Buddhism",
7248 "Jainism",
7249 "East Asia before the Axial Age",
7250 "The World of Confucius",
7251 "The Foundations of Confucianism",
7252 "The Cultivation of Virtue",
7253 "Early Confucianism and the Rise of Daoism",
7254 "The Daodejing",
7255 "Daoist Politics and Mysticism",
7256 "Reflections on the Axial Age"
7257 ],
7258 "id" : 6312,
7259 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/religions-of-the-axial-age-an-approach-to-the-world-s-religions.html"
7260}{
7261 "professor" : "Professor Andrew C. Fix, Ph.D.",
7262 "title" : "Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Rise of Nations",
7263 "description" : "In 1347, a merchant ship traveling from Crimea in central Asia docked at Messina in Sicily with a crew of desperately sick sailors. As they were taken ashore, rats also left the vessel, carrying with them fleas infected with the bacterium for bubonic plague. The Black Death had arrived in Europe.",
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7265 "lectures" : [
7266 "Crisis of the 14th Century",
7267 "The Hundred Years War and the Church in Crisis",
7268 "The Origins of the Italian Renaissance",
7269 "The Birth of Civic Humanism",
7270 "Renaissance Florence",
7271 "Humanist Thought",
7272 "Florentine Politics and Society",
7273 "The History of Florence",
7274 "The Italian State System",
7275 "The Age of Discovery",
7276 "Inflation and New Monarchy",
7277 "Renaissance Art",
7278 "The Church on the Eve of the Reformation",
7279 "The Church on the Eve continued",
7280 "Northern Humanism",
7281 "Martin Luther",
7282 "The Reformation Begins",
7283 "The Progress of the Reformation in Germany",
7284 "German Politics and Society",
7285 "Imperial Politics and International War",
7286 "The Reformation Beyond Germany—Zwingli",
7287 "The Radical Reformation",
7288 "The Radical Reformation continued",
7289 "Calvin and Calvinism",
7290 "The English Reformation",
7291 "The Birth of Anglicanism",
7292 "The Catholic Counter-Reformation",
7293 "Loyola and the Society of Jesus",
7294 "Religious Politics and Religious War",
7295 "Religious War in France 1562–98",
7296 "The Dutch Revolt",
7297 "The Course of the Revolt",
7298 "The Thirty Years War",
7299 "Climax of the War",
7300 "The 17th Century—Crisis and Transition",
7301 "Economic Change in the 17th Century",
7302 "The Rise of Absolutism in France",
7303 "Louis XIV",
7304 "Absolutism in Germany",
7305 "The Spanish Monarchy",
7306 "The Dutch Republic",
7307 "Constitutional Monarchy in England",
7308 "The English Civil War",
7309 "Cromwell and the Glorious Revolution",
7310 "The Scientific Revolution—The Old Science",
7311 "Preparing for Change",
7312 "The Revolution Under Way",
7313 "The Early Enlightenment 1680–1715"
7314 ],
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7316 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/renaissance-the-reformation-and-the-rise-of-nations.html"
7317}{
7318 "professor" : "Professor Susan Sage Heinzelman, Ph.D.",
7319 "title" : "Representing Justice: Stories of Law and Literature",
7320 "description" : "Great literature can be the means of understanding as well as creating our world—by teaching and reinforcing society's laws, articulating its values, and enforcing the social contracts that unite us as a culture. What if literature itself generated our ideas and feelings about justice, marriage and family, property, authority, race, or gender? What if it enflamed our determination to pursue justice—or, conversely, undermined our ability to detect injustice?",
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7322 "lectures" : [
7323 "Literature as Law, Literature of Law",
7324 "The Old Testament as Law and Literature",
7325 "Revenge and Justice in Aeschylus’s Oresteia",
7326 "Community in Sophocles’s Oedipus Tyrannus",
7327 "Ritual Order in Mystery and Morality Plays",
7328 "Chaucer’s Lawyers and Priests",
7329 "Inns of Court, Royal Courts, and the Stage",
7330 "Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice (1596–97)",
7331 "Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure (1603–04)",
7332 "Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale (1609–11)",
7333 "An Epic Trial—Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667)",
7334 "Moll Flanders (1722); Beggar’s Opera (1727)",
7335 "Trial Tales of Parricide Mary Blandy (1752)",
7336 "Property and Self—Edgeworth, Burney, Austen",
7337 "Law as Fog—Dickens’s Bleak House (1852–53)",
7338 "Puritans Anew—The Scarlet Letter (1850)",
7339 "Slavery and Huckleberry Finn (1885)",
7340 "Victorian Limits—Tess and Jude the Obscure",
7341 "Susan Glaspell’s “Jury of Her Peers” (1917)",
7342 "Kafka and 20th-Century Anxiety about Law",
7343 "Lolita (1958) and the Art of Confessing",
7344 "“Witnessing” Slavery in Beloved (1987)",
7345 "Maternal Infanticide—Myth and Judgment",
7346 "Literature and Law—Past, Present, Future"
7347 ],
7348 "id" : 2336,
7349 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/representing-justice-stories-of-law-and-literature.html"
7350}{
7351 "professor" : "Professor Gary W. Gallagher, Ph.D.",
7352 "title" : "Robert E. Lee and His High Command",
7353 "description" : "Few events have captivated students of American history like the Civil War. Its battles are analyzed repeatedly, studied and \"what-ifed\" by professional tacticians and tireless amateurs. Its profoundly dramatic implications and moments have no parallels in our history, whether it be friend fighting friend, the end of slavery, or an entire society and way of life burned away, sometimes literally. The war's most striking personalities seem somehow magnified—and few among those personalities have ever held our attention like General Robert Edward Lee.",
7354 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/8/5/8557---packaging_flat_4.1551366481.jpg",
7355 "lectures" : [
7356 "Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia",
7357 "The Making of a Confederate General",
7358 "Lee’s Year of Fabled Victories",
7359 "Lee From Gettysburg to Appomattox",
7360 "Was Lee an Old-Fashioned General?",
7361 "The Making of the Mighty “Stonewall” Jackson",
7362 "Stonewall Jackson as Lee’s “Right Arm”",
7363 "James Longstreet’s Road to Prominence",
7364 "Longstreet’s Later Confederate Career",
7365 "The Rise of Jubal Anderson Early",
7366 "Early’s Path to Defeat",
7367 "“Jeb” Stuart as Soldier and Showman",
7368 "One Promotion Too Many—A. P. Hill",
7369 "Forced from Center Stage—Richard S. Ewell",
7370 "A Straight-Ahead Fighter—John Bell Hood",
7371 "Could Robert E. Lee Make Hard Decisions?",
7372 "The Problem of Attrition",
7373 "Younger Officers I—Robert Emmett Rodes",
7374 "Younger Officers II—Stephen Dodson Ramseur",
7375 "Younger Officers III—John Brown Gordon",
7376 "Younger Officers IV—Edward Porter Alexander",
7377 "Gifted but Flawed—J. E. Johnston and Beauregard",
7378 "Drama and Failure—Magruder and Pickett",
7379 "Before the Bar of History—The Lost Cause"
7380 ],
7381 "id" : 8557,
7382 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/robert-e-lee-and-his-high-command.html"
7383}{
7384 "professor" : "Professor Kenneth W. Harl, Ph.D.",
7385 "title" : "Rome and the Barbarians",
7386 "description" : "The history of the Romans and the \"barbarians\" they encountered as their mighty legions advanced the frontiers of Classical civilization has in large part been written as a story of warfare and conquest. But to tell the story on only that level leaves many questions unanswered, not only about the Romans but about the barbarians, as well.",
7387 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/3/4/3460---packaging_flat_4.1551364786.jpg",
7388 "lectures" : [
7389 "Greek and Roman Views of Barbarians",
7390 "The Roman Republic",
7391 "Roman Society",
7392 "The Roman Way of War",
7393 "Celtic Europe and the Mediterranean World",
7394 "The Conquest of Cisalpine Gaul",
7395 "Romans and Carthaginians in Spain",
7396 "The Roman Conquest of Spain",
7397 "The Genesis of Roman Spain",
7398 "Jugurtha and the Nomadic Threat",
7399 "Marius and the Northern Barbarians",
7400 "Rome's Rivals in the East",
7401 "The Price of Empire—The Roman Revolution",
7402 "Julius Caesar and the Conquest of Gaul",
7403 "Early Germanic Europe",
7404 "The Nomads of Eastern Europe",
7405 "Arsacid Parthia",
7406 "The Augustan Principate and Imperialism",
7407 "The Roman Imperial Army",
7408 "The Varian Disaster",
7409 "The Roman Conquest of Britain",
7410 "Civil War and Rebellion",
7411 "Flavian Frontiers and the Dacians",
7412 "Trajan, the Dacians, and the Parthians",
7413 "Romanization of the Provinces",
7414 "Commerce Beyond the Imperial Frontiers",
7415 "Frontier Settlement and Assimilation",
7416 "From Germanic Tribes to Confederations",
7417 "Goths and the Crisis of the Third Century",
7418 "Eastern Rivals—Sassanid Persia",
7419 "Rome and the Barbarians in the Fourth Century",
7420 "From Foes to Federates",
7421 "Imperial Crisis and Decline",
7422 "Attila and the Huns",
7423 "Justinian and the Barbarians",
7424 "Birth of the Barbarian Medieval West"
7425 ],
7426 "id" : 3460,
7427 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/rome-and-the-barbarians.html"
7428}{
7429 "professor" : "Professor Barbara J. King, Ph.D.",
7430 "title" : "Roots of Human Behavior",
7431 "description" : "While human behavior is usually studied from the historical perspective of a few hundred years, anthropologists consider deeper causes for the ways we act. In this course, anthropologist Barbara J. King uses her wealth of research experience to open a window of understanding for you into the legacy left by our primate past.",
7432 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/1/6/168---packaging_flat_5.1551369213.jpg",
7433 "lectures" : [
7434 "The Four Facets of Anthropology",
7435 "Social Bonds and Family Ties",
7436 "The Journey Away from Mom",
7437 "Males and Females—Really So Different?",
7438 "Sex and Reproduction",
7439 "Tool Making—Of Hammers and Anvils",
7440 "Social Learning and Teaching",
7441 "Culture—What Is It? Who’s Got It?",
7442 "Dynamics of Social Communication",
7443 "Do Great Apes Use Language?",
7444 "Highlights of Human Evolution",
7445 "Exploring and Conserving a Legacy"
7446 ],
7447 "id" : 168,
7448 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/roots-of-human-behavior.html"
7449}{
7450 "professor" : "Professor Lawrence M. Principe, Ph.D.",
7451 "title" : "Science and Religion",
7452 "description" : "Two crucial forces, science and religion, helped shape Western civilization and continue to interact in our daily lives. What is the nature of their relationship? When do they conflict, and how do they influence each other in pursuit of knowledge and truth? Contrary to prevailing notions that they must perpetually clash, science and theology have actually been partners in an age-old adventure. This course covers both the historical sweep and philosophical flashpoints of this epic interaction.",
7453 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/4/6/4691---packaging_flat_4.1551363091.jpg",
7454 "lectures" : [
7455 "Science and Religion",
7456 "The Warfare Thesis",
7457 "Faith and Reason—Scripture and Nature",
7458 "God and Nature—Miracles and Demons",
7459 "Church, Copernicus, and Galileo",
7460 "Galileo’s Trial",
7461 "God the Watchmaker",
7462 "Natural Theology and Arguments from Design",
7463 "Geology, Cosmology, and Biblical Chronology",
7464 "Darwin and Responses to Evolution",
7465 "Fundamentalism and Creationism",
7466 "Past, Present, and Future"
7467 ],
7468 "id" : 4691,
7469 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/science-and-religion.html"
7470}{
7471 "professor" : "Professor Steven L. Goldman, Ph.D.",
7472 "title" : "Science in the 20th Century: A Social-Intellectual Survey",
7473 "description" : "As the 19th century drew to a close, the age-old quest to understand the physical world appeared to be complete except for a few minor details. \"It seems probable that most of the grand underlying principles have been firmly established,\" said Albert Michelson, the first American scientist to win a Nobel Prize.",
7474 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/1/2/1220---packaging_flat_4.1551370142.jpg",
7475 "lectures" : [
7476 "The Evolution of 20th-Century Science",
7477 "Redefining Reality",
7478 "Quantum Theory Makes Its Appearance",
7479 "The Heroic \"Old\" Age of Quantum Theory",
7480 "A Newer Theory—QED",
7481 "QED Meets Fission and Fusion",
7482 "Learning by Smashing",
7483 "What Good is QED?",
7484 "The Newest Theory—Quantum Chromodynamics",
7485 "Unifying Nature",
7486 "Chemists Become Designers",
7487 "Mathematics and Truth",
7488 "Mathematics and Reality",
7489 "The Universe Expands",
7490 "What is the Universe?",
7491 "How Do We Know What's Out There?",
7492 "From Equilibrium to Dynamism",
7493 "Subterranean Fury",
7494 "Solar System Citizen",
7495 "Science Organized, Adopted, Co-opted",
7496 "Techno-Science and Globalization",
7497 "The Evolution of Evolution",
7498 "Human Evolution",
7499 "Genetics—From Mendel to Molecules",
7500 "Molecular Biology",
7501 "Molecular Medicine",
7502 "Culture—Anthropology and Archaeology",
7503 "Culture—History",
7504 "Culture—Linguistics",
7505 "Society—Sociology",
7506 "Society—Political Science",
7507 "Society—Economics",
7508 "Mind—Classical and Behavioral Psychology",
7509 "Mind—Cybernetics, AI, Connectionism",
7510 "Looking Back",
7511 "Looking Around and Looking Ahead"
7512 ],
7513 "id" : 1220,
7514 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/science-in-the-20th-century-a-social-intellectual-survey.html"
7515}{
7516 "professor" : "Professor Steven L. Goldman, Ph.D.",
7517 "title" : "Science Wars: What Scientists Know and How They Know It",
7518 "description" : "Choose one: (A) Science gives us objective knowledge of an independently existing reality. (B) Scientific knowledge is always provisional and tells us nothing that is universal, necessary, or certain about the world. Welcome to the science wars—a long-running battle over the status of scientific knowledge that began in ancient Greece, raged furiously among scientists, social scientists, and humanists during the 1990s, and has re-emerged in today's conflict between science and religion over issues such as evolution.",
7519 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/1/2/1235---packaging_flat_4.1551363200.jpg",
7520 "lectures" : [
7521 "Knowledge and Truth Are Age-Old Problems",
7522 "Competing Visions of the Scientific Method",
7523 "Galileo, the Catholic Church, and Truth",
7524 "Isaac Newton’s Theory of the Universe",
7525 "Science vs. Philosophy in the 17th Century",
7526 "Locke, Hume, and the Path to Skepticism",
7527 "Kant Restores Certainty",
7528 "Science, Society, and the Age of Reason",
7529 "Science Comes of Age in the 19th Century",
7530 "Theories Need Not Explain",
7531 "Knowledge as a Product of the Active Mind",
7532 "Trading Reality for Experience",
7533 "Scientific Truth in the Early 20th Century",
7534 "Two New Theories of Scientific Knowledge",
7535 "Einstein and Bohr Redefine Reality",
7536 "Truth, Ideology, and Thought Collectives",
7537 "Kuhn's Revolutionary Image of Science",
7538 "Challenging Mainstream Science from Within",
7539 "Objectivity Under Attack",
7540 "Scientific Knowledge as Social Construct",
7541 "New Definitions of Objectivity",
7542 "Science Wars of the Late 20th Century",
7543 "Intelligent Design and the Scope of Science",
7544 "Truth, History, and Citizenship"
7545 ],
7546 "id" : 1235,
7547 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/science-wars-what-scientists-know-and-how-they-know-it.html"
7548}{
7549 "professor" : "Professor Francis B. Colavita, Ph.D.",
7550 "title" : "Sensation, Perception, and the Aging Process",
7551 "description" : "Why is it that we react to the world the way we do, not only in similar ways—turning our heads in the direction of a tap on the shoulder or a sudden movement in our peripheral vision, for example—but often in dramatically different ways as well?",
7552 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/1/5/1546---packaging_flat_4.1551373423.jpg",
7553 "lectures" : [
7554 "Sensation, Perception, and Behavior",
7555 "Sensation and Perception—A Distinction",
7556 "Vision—Stimulus and the Optical System",
7557 "Vision—The Retina",
7558 "Vision—Beyond the Optic Nerve",
7559 "Vision—Age-Related Changes",
7560 "Hearing—Stimulus and Supporting Structures",
7561 "Hearing—The Inner Ear",
7562 "Hearing—Age-Related Changes",
7563 "The Cutaneous System—Receptors, Pathways",
7564 "The Cutaneous System—Early Development",
7565 "The Cutaneous System—Age-Related Changes",
7566 "Pain—Early History",
7567 "Pain—Acupuncture, Endorphins, and Aging",
7568 "Taste—Stimulus, Structures, and Receptors",
7569 "Taste—Factors Influencing Preferences",
7570 "Smell—The Unappreciated Sense",
7571 "Smell—Consequences of Anosmia",
7572 "The Vestibular System—Body Orientation",
7573 "The Kinesthetic Sense—Motor Memory",
7574 "Brain Mechanisms and Perception",
7575 "Perception of Language",
7576 "The Visual Agnosias",
7577 "Perception of Other People/Course Summary"
7578 ],
7579 "id" : 1546,
7580 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/sensation-perception-and-the-aging-process.html"
7581}{
7582 "professor" : "Professor Peter Saccio, Ph.D.",
7583 "title" : "Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies",
7584 "description" : "There is no more important author in Western literature than William Shakespeare. And his plays—whether a comedy like A Midsummer Night's Dream; a history like Henry IV; or a tragedy like Hamlet—are treasure troves of insight into our very humanity. Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, Tragedies introduces you to Shakespeare's plays and explains the achievement that makes Shakespeare the leading playwright in Western civilization. The key to that achievement is his \"abundance,\" says Professor Saccio—not only in the number and length of his plays, but also in the variety of experiences they depict, the multitude of actions and characters they contain, the combination of public and private life they deal with, the richness of feelings they express and can provoke in an audience and in readers, and the fullness of language and suggestion.",
7585 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/2/8/280---packaging_flat_5.1551364419.jpg",
7586 "lectures" : [
7587 "Shakespeare Then and Now",
7588 "The Nature of Shakespeare's Plays",
7589 "Twelfth Night—Shakespearean Comedy",
7590 "Twelfth Night—Malvolio in Love",
7591 "The Taming of the Shrew—Getting Married in the 1590s",
7592 "The Taming of the Shrew—Farce and Romance",
7593 "The Merchant of Venice—Courting the Heiress",
7594 "The Merchant of Venice—Shylock",
7595 "Measure for Measure—Sex in Society",
7596 "Measure for Measure—Justice and Comedy",
7597 "Richard III—Shakespearean History",
7598 "Richard III—The Villain's Career",
7599 "Richard II—The Theory of Kingship",
7600 "Richard II—The Fall of the King",
7601 "Henry IV—All the King's Men",
7602 "Henry IV—The Life of Falstaff",
7603 "Henry V—The Death of Falstaff",
7604 "Henry V—The King Victorious",
7605 "Romeo and Juliet—Shakespearean Tragedy",
7606 "Romeo and Juliet—Public Violence and Private Bliss",
7607 "Troilus and Cressida—Ancient Epic in a New Mode",
7608 "Troilus and Cressida—Heroic Aspirations",
7609 "Julius Caesar—The Matter of Rome",
7610 "Julius Caesar—Heroes of History",
7611 "Hamlet—The Abundance of the Play",
7612 "Hamlet—The Causes of Tragedy",
7613 "Hamlet—The Protestant Hero",
7614 "Othello—The Design of the Tragedy",
7615 "Othello—“O Villainy!”",
7616 "Othello—“The Noble Moor”",
7617 "King Lear—“This Is the Worst”",
7618 "King Lear—Wisdom Through Suffering",
7619 "King Lear—“Then We Go On”",
7620 "Macbeth—“Fair Is Foul”",
7621 "Macbeth—Musing on Murder",
7622 "Macbeth—“Enter Two Murderers”"
7623 ],
7624 "id" : 280,
7625 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/shakespeare-comedies-histories-and-tragedies.html"
7626}{
7627 "professor" : "Professor Clare R. Kinney, Ph.D.",
7628 "title" : "Shakespeare's Tragedies",
7629 "description" : "Shakespeare's contributions to stage and language are unequaled. In what Professor Clare R. Kinney calls the \"power and audacity of his poetry and stagecraft,\" Shakespeare has left audiences breathless these past four centuries.",
7630 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/2/7/2752---packaging_flat_4.1551367897.jpg",
7631 "lectures" : [
7632 "Defining Tragedy",
7633 "Shakespearean Tragedy in Context",
7634 "Hamlet I—\"Stand and unfold yourself\"",
7635 "Hamlet II—The Performance of Revenge",
7636 "Hamlet III—Difficult Women",
7637 "Hamlet IV—Uncontainable Hamlet",
7638 "Othello I—Miscegenation and Mixed Messages",
7639 "Othello II—Monstrous Births",
7640 "Othello III—\"Ocular Proof\"",
7641 "Othello IV—Tragic Knowledge",
7642 "King Lear I—Kingship and Kinship",
7643 "King Lear II—\"Unaccommodated Man\"",
7644 "King Lear III—The Stage of Fools",
7645 "King Lear IV—\"Is this the promised end?\"",
7646 "Macbeth I—Desire and Equivocation",
7647 "Macbeth II—\"Dispute it like a man\"",
7648 "Macbeth III—Bloody Babes and Bloody Ends",
7649 "Antony and Cleopatra I—Epic Desires",
7650 "Antony and Cleopatra II—Identity Politics",
7651 "Antony and Cleopatra III—The Art of Dying",
7652 "Coriolanus I—The Loner and the Mob",
7653 "Coriolanus II—The Theater of Politics",
7654 "Coriolanus III—Mothers and Killers",
7655 "Conclusion—Beyond Tragedy?"
7656 ],
7657 "id" : 2752,
7658 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/shakespeare-s-tragedies.html"
7659}{
7660 "professor" : "Professor Arnold Weinstein, Ph.D.",
7661 "title" : "The Soul and the City: Art, Literature, and Urban Living",
7662 "description" : "As the great English author Samuel Johnson once said \"A great city is, to be sure, the school for studying life.\" We spend our lives building in empty spaces. Out of nothing, we make something. We fashion jobs, relationships, structures, and meanings. Without these creations, we would live in a wasteland.",
7663 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/4/8/484---packaging_flat_4.1551367571.jpg",
7664 "lectures" : [
7665 "The City as Container, the Artist as Mapmaker",
7666 "Lost in Space",
7667 "The Marketplace",
7668 "The Family Plot, or Municipal Bonds",
7669 "Urban Apocalypse",
7670 "Transmission and Storage",
7671 "The Industrialized City and the Machine Vision",
7672 "A Movable Feast"
7673 ],
7674 "id" : 484,
7675 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/soul-and-the-city-art-literature-and-urban-living.html"
7676}{
7677 "professor" : "Taught By Multiple Professors",
7678 "title" : "St. Augustine's Confessions",
7679 "description" : "In St. Augustine's Confessions , Professors William R. Cook and Ronald B. Herzman lead a chapter-by-chapter—or, in Augustine's terms, \"book-by-book\"—analysis of one of history's most significant literary works. Written in the 4th century C.E., the Confessions is an opportunity to explore, in one book, questions that have been addressed in many books—by the likes of Plato, Cicero, Freud, and Einstein—for more than a millennium.",
7680 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/6/6/6627---packaging_flat.1551366981.jpg",
7681 "lectures" : [
7682 "Augustine and the Confessions",
7683 "Augustine and the World of Classical Antiquity",
7684 "The Corpus of Augustine's Writings",
7685 "Form and Genre",
7686 "Book I—Sin and Confession",
7687 "Book I—Augustine's Childhood",
7688 "Book II—Augustine Grows Up",
7689 "Book II—Stealing Pears: So What?",
7690 "Book III—The Journey Begins",
7691 "Book IV—The Problem of Friendship",
7692 "Book V—From Carthage to Rome",
7693 "Book VI—A New Look at Christianity",
7694 "Book VII—Neo-Platonism and Truth",
7695 "Book VII—Faith and Reason",
7696 "Book VIII—Converging Conversions",
7697 "Book VIII—\"Pick It Up and Read\"",
7698 "Book IX—The New Man",
7699 "Book IX—The Death of Monica",
7700 "Book X—Augustine the Bishop",
7701 "Book X—Augustine on Memory",
7702 "Book XI—Augustine on Time",
7703 "Book XII—Augustine on Biblical Interpretation",
7704 "Book XIII—Augustine on Creation",
7705 "The Confessions Through the Ages"
7706 ],
7707 "id" : 6627,
7708 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/st-augustine-s-confessions.html"
7709}{
7710 "professor" : "Professor John McWhorter, Ph.D.",
7711 "title" : "Story of Human Language",
7712 "description" : "I never met a person who is not interested in language, wrote the bestselling author and psychologist Steven Pinker. There are good reasons that language fascinates us so. It not only defines humans as a species, placing us head and shoulders above even the most proficient animal communicators, but it also beguiles us with its endless mysteries. For example:",
7713 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/1/6/1600---packaging_flat_4.1551364337.jpg",
7714 "lectures" : [
7715 "What Is Language?",
7716 "When Language Began",
7717 "How Language Changes—Sound Change",
7718 "How Language Changes—Building New Material",
7719 "How Language Changes—Meaning and Order",
7720 "How Language Changes—Many Directions",
7721 "How Language Changes—Modern English",
7722 "Language Families—Indo-European",
7723 "Language Families—Tracing Indo-European",
7724 "Language Families—Diversity of Structures",
7725 "Language Families—Clues to the Past",
7726 "The Case Against the World’s First Language",
7727 "The Case For the World’s First Language",
7728 "Dialects—Subspecies of Species",
7729 "Dialects—Where Do You Draw the Line?",
7730 "Dialects—Two Tongues in One Mouth",
7731 "Dialects—The Standard as Token of the Past",
7732 "Dialects—Spoken Style, Written Style",
7733 "Dialects—The Fallacy of Blackboard Grammar",
7734 "Language Mixture—Words",
7735 "Language Mixture—Grammar",
7736 "Language Mixture—Language Areas",
7737 "Language Develops Beyond the Call of Duty",
7738 "Language Interrupted",
7739 "A New Perspective on the Story of English",
7740 "Does Culture Drive Language Change?",
7741 "Language Starts Over—Pidgins",
7742 "Language Starts Over—Creoles I",
7743 "Language Starts Over—Creoles II",
7744 "Language Starts Over—Signs of the New",
7745 "Language Starts Over—The Creole Continuum",
7746 "What Is Black English?",
7747 "Language Death—The Problem",
7748 "Language Death—Prognosis",
7749 "Artificial Languages",
7750 "Finale—Master Class"
7751 ],
7752 "id" : 1600,
7753 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/story-of-human-language.html"
7754}{
7755 "professor" : "Professor Luke Timothy Johnson, Ph.D.",
7756 "title" : "Story of the Bible",
7757 "description" : "Since the invention of the printing press, the world's consistently bestselling book has been the Bible. Since 1815, it has been printed an estimated five billion times. By the end of 2005, it had been translated into 2,043 languages. In the Western world, the Bible is easy to find: In most hotel rooms, it is handier than the Yellow Pages.",
7758 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/6/2/6252---packaging_flat_4.1551362945.jpg",
7759 "lectures" : [
7760 "Telling the Story of a Book",
7761 "Making TaNaK",
7762 "Forms of Jewish Scripture",
7763 "Birth of the Christian Bible",
7764 "Formation of Jewish and Christian Canons",
7765 "Writing and Copying Manuscripts",
7766 "Imperial Sponsorship and the Bible",
7767 "Texts and Translations—The Ancient East",
7768 "Old Latin and the Vulgate",
7769 "Other Ancient Versions",
7770 "Monasteries and Manuscripts",
7771 "Interpretation within Judaism",
7772 "Interpretation in Medieval Christianity",
7773 "The Renaissance, Printing, and the Bible",
7774 "The Protestant Reformation and the Bible",
7775 "Translating the Bible into Modern Languages",
7776 "The First Efforts at Englishing the Bible",
7777 "The King James Version",
7778 "The Romance of Manuscripts",
7779 "Searching for the Critical Text",
7780 "The Historical-Critical Approach",
7781 "The Bible in Contemporary Judaism",
7782 "Contemporary Christians and Their Bibles",
7783 "The Bible's Story Continues"
7784 ],
7785 "id" : 6252,
7786 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/story-of-the-bible.html"
7787}{
7788 "professor" : "Professor Robert Greenberg, Ph.D.",
7789 "title" : "Symphonies of Beethoven",
7790 "description" : "Why is Beethoven one of the most revered composers in the history of Western music? Professor Robert Greenberg answers: \"Beethoven possessed a unique gift for communication. He radiated an absolute directness that makes his music totally accessible. The sheer emotional power of his music is readily understood. His revolutionary compositional ideas are easily appreciated.",
7791 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/7/3/730---packaging_flat_4.1551368866.jpg",
7792 "lectures" : [
7793 "Beethoven and the Heroic Style, I",
7794 "Beethoven and the Heroic Style, II",
7795 "Beethoven and the Heroic Style, III",
7796 "Beethoven and the Heroic Style, IV",
7797 "Symphony No. 1—Beethoven as Classicist—Tradition and Innovation, I",
7798 "Symphony No. 1—Beethoven as Classicist—Tradition and Innovation, II",
7799 "Symphony No. 2—Beethoven at the Edge, I",
7800 "Symphony No. 2—Beethoven at the Edge, II",
7801 "Symphony No. 3—The \"New Path\"—Heroism and Self-Expression, I",
7802 "Symphony No. 3—The \"New Path\"—Heroism and Self-Expression, II",
7803 "Symphony No. 3—The \"New Path\"—Heroism and Self-Expression, III",
7804 "Symphony No. 3—The \"New Path\"—Heroism and Self-Expression, IV",
7805 "Symphony No. 4—Consolidation of the New Aesthetic, I",
7806 "Symphony No. 4—Consolidation of the New Aesthetic, II",
7807 "Symphony No. 4—Consolidation of the New Aesthetic, III",
7808 "Symphony No. 4—Consolidation of the New Aesthetic, IV",
7809 "Symphony No. 5—The Expressive Ideal Fully Formed, I",
7810 "Symphony No. 5—The Expressive Ideal Fully Formed, II",
7811 "Symphony No. 5—The Expressive Ideal Fully Formed, III",
7812 "Symphony No. 6—The Symphony as Program, I",
7813 "Symphony No. 6—The Symphony as Program, II",
7814 "Symphony No. 6—The Symphony as Program, III",
7815 "Symphony No. 7—The Symphony as Dance, I",
7816 "Symphony No. 7—The Symphony as Dance, II",
7817 "Symphony No. 8—Homage to Classicism, I",
7818 "Symphony No. 8—Homage to Classicism, II",
7819 "Symphony No. 8—Homage to Classicism, III",
7820 "Symphony No. 9—The Symphony as the World, I",
7821 "Symphony No. 9—The Symphony as the World, II",
7822 "Symphony No. 9—The Symphony as the World, III",
7823 "Symphony No. 9—The Symphony as the World, IV",
7824 "Symphony No. 9—The Symphony as the World, V"
7825 ],
7826 "id" : 730,
7827 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/symphonies-of-beethoven.html"
7828}{
7829 "professor" : "Professor Teofilo F. Ruiz, Ph.D.",
7830 "title" : "Terror of History: Mystics, Heretics, and Witches in the Western Tradition",
7831 "description" : "Western civilization is closely associated with reason and science, and with exceptional accomplishment in art, architecture, music, and literature. Yet it has also been characterized by widespread belief in the supernatural and the irrational—with mystics who have visions of the divine, and with entire movements of people who wait in fervent anticipation of the apocalypse.",
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7833 "lectures" : [
7834 "The Terror of History",
7835 "Politics, Economy, and Society",
7836 "Religion and Culture",
7837 "Mysticism in the Western Tradition",
7838 "Mysticism in the Twelfth Century",
7839 "Mysticism in the Thirteenth Century",
7840 "Jewish Mysticism",
7841 "Mysticism in Early Modern Europe",
7842 "Heresy and the Millennium",
7843 "The Church Under Attack",
7844 "The Birth of the Inquisition",
7845 "The Millennium in the Sixteenth Century",
7846 "Jewish Millennial Expectations",
7847 "The Mysteries of the Renaissance",
7848 "Hermeticism, Astrology, Alchemy, and Magic",
7849 "The Origins of Witchcraft",
7850 "Religion, Science, and Magic",
7851 "The Witch Craze and Its Historians",
7852 "Fear and the Construction of Satan",
7853 "The Witch Craze and Misogyny",
7854 "The World of Witches",
7855 "The Witches of Loudon",
7856 "The Witches of Essex and Salem",
7857 "The Survival of the Past"
7858 ],
7859 "id" : 893,
7860 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/terror-of-history-mystics-heretics-and-witches-in-the-western-tradition.html"
7861}{
7862 "professor" : "Professor Kenneth P. Vickery, Ph.D.",
7863 "title" : "African Experience: From \"Lucy\" to Mandela",
7864 "description" : "The story of Africa is the oldest and most event-filled chronicle of human activity on the planet. These 36 half-hour lectures cover this great historical drama, tracing the story of the sub-Saharan region of the continent from the earliest evidence of human habitation to the latest challenges facing African nations in the 21 st century.",
7865 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/8/6/8678---packaging_flat_4.1551363700.jpg",
7866 "lectures" : [
7867 "Finding the \"Lost Continent\"",
7868 "Africa's Many Natural Environments",
7869 "A Virtual Tour of the Great Land",
7870 "The Cradle of Humankind",
7871 "Crops, Cattle, Iron—Taming a Continent",
7872 "Kinship and Community—Societies Take Shape",
7873 "Like Nothing Else—The Ancient Nile Valley",
7874 "Soul and Spirit—Religion in Africa",
7875 "Ethiopia—Outpost of Christianity",
7876 "West Africa's \"Golden Age\"",
7877 "The Swahili Commercial World",
7878 "Great Zimbabwe and the Cities of the South",
7879 "The Atlantic Slave Trade—The Scope",
7880 "The Atlantic Slave Trade—The Impact",
7881 "South Africa—The Dutch Cape Colony",
7882 "South Africa—The Zulu Kingdom",
7883 "South Africa—The Frontier and Unification",
7884 "South Africa—Diamonds and Gold",
7885 "Prelude to the \"Scramble for Africa\"",
7886 "European Conquest and African Resistance",
7887 "Colonial Africa—New Realities",
7888 "Colonial Africa—Comparisons and Change",
7889 "The Lion Awakens—The Rise of Nationalism",
7890 "The Peaceful Paths to Independence",
7891 "The Congo—Promise and Pain",
7892 "Segregation to Apartheid in South Africa",
7893 "The Armed Struggles for Independence",
7894 "The First Taste of Freedom",
7895 "The Taste Turns Sour",
7896 "The World Turns Down—The \"Permanent Crisis\"",
7897 "A New Dawn? The Democratic Revival",
7898 "The South African Miracle",
7899 "The Unthinkable—The Rwanda Genocide",
7900 "The New Plague—HIV/AIDS in Africa",
7901 "Zimbabwe—Background to Contemporary Crisis",
7902 "Africa Found"
7903 ],
7904 "id" : 8678,
7905 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/african-experience-from-quot-lucy-quot-to-mandela.html"
7906}{
7907 "professor" : "Professor Gary A. Rendsburg, Ph.D.",
7908 "title" : "Book of Genesis",
7909 "description" : "The Book of Genesis, regardless of our faith, is something with which almost all of us in the Western world are familiar—a foundational work of our culture we have read and, we believe, understood. After all, its language, despite its remarkable elegance, is simple. Its powerful sentences are short. And its messages glisten with clarity.",
7910 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/6/2/6234---packaging_flat_4.1551362491.jpg",
7911 "lectures" : [
7912 "On Reading the Book of Genesis",
7913 "Genesis 1, The First Creation Story",
7914 "Genesis 2–3, The Second Creation Story",
7915 "An Overview of Ancient Israelite History",
7916 "The Ancient Near East",
7917 "The JEDP Theory and Alternative Approaches",
7918 "Genesis 6–8, The Flood Story",
7919 "Genesis 9, Covenant",
7920 "Genesis 12–22, The Abraham Story",
7921 "When and Where Did Abraham Live?",
7922 "Genesis 21–22, Abraham Put to the Test",
7923 "Women in the Bible—Sarah and Hagar",
7924 "Genesis 24, A Bride for Isaac",
7925 "The Barren Woman and the Younger Son",
7926 "The Literary Structure of Genesis",
7927 "Different Bible Translations",
7928 "Genesis 27, Jacob and Esau",
7929 "Genesis 29, Jacob and Rachel",
7930 "The Date of the Book of Genesis",
7931 "Genesis 37, Joseph and His Brothers",
7932 "Genesis 38, The Story of Judah and Tamar",
7933 "Genesis 39, The Story of Potiphar’s Wife",
7934 "The Egyptian Background of the Joseph Story",
7935 "One Last Text—and the Text as a Whole"
7936 ],
7937 "id" : 6234,
7938 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/book-of-genesis.html"
7939}{
7940 "professor" : "Professor Robert Greenberg, Ph.D.",
7941 "title" : "The Concerto",
7942 "description" : "Ready for thrills? A concerto is exciting in ways that no other instrumental music can match. Where a symphony enthralls us with themes that are contrasted, varied, transformed, and developed, a concerto adds the extra dimension of human drama—the exhilaration of a soloist or group of soloists ringing forth against the mass of the orchestra.",
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7944 "lectures" : [
7945 "The Voice in the Wilderness",
7946 "The Baroque Italian Concerto",
7947 "Baroque Masters",
7948 "Bach’s Brandenburg Concerti",
7949 "Mozart, Part 1",
7950 "Mozart, Part 2",
7951 "Classical Masters",
7952 "Beethoven",
7953 "The Romantic Concerto",
7954 "Hummel and Chopin",
7955 "Mendelssohn and Schumann",
7956 "Romantic Masters",
7957 "Tchaikovsky",
7958 "Brahms and the Symphonic Concerto",
7959 "Dvorak",
7960 "Rachmaninoff",
7961 "The Russian Concerto, Part 1",
7962 "The Russian Concerto, Part 2",
7963 "The Concerto in France",
7964 "Bartok",
7965 "Schönberg, Berg and the 12-Tone Method",
7966 "Twentieth-Century Masters",
7967 "Elliott Carter",
7968 "Servants to the Cause and Guilty Pleasures"
7969 ],
7970 "id" : 7270,
7971 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/the-concerto.html"
7972}{
7973 "professor" : "Professor Timothy Spurgin, Ph.D.",
7974 "title" : "The English Novel",
7975 "description" : "Who can imagine life without novels?",
7976 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/2/4/2429---packaging_flat_4.1551363012.jpg",
7977 "lectures" : [
7978 "Definitions and Distinctions",
7979 "The “Englishness” of the English Novel",
7980 "Historical Context of Early English Fiction",
7981 "The Rise of the Novel—Richardson and Fielding",
7982 "After 1750—Sterne, Burney, and Radcliffe",
7983 "Scott and the Historical Novel",
7984 "Austen and the Comedic Tradition",
7985 "Austen and the History of Consciousness",
7986 "Dickens—Early Works",
7987 "Novelists of the 1840s—Thackeray",
7988 "Novelists of the 1840s—The Brontës",
7989 "Dickens—Later Works",
7990 "After 1870—Review and Preview",
7991 "Eliot and the Multiplot Novel",
7992 "Eliot and the Unfolding of Character",
7993 "Hardy and the Natural World",
7994 "James and the Art of Fiction",
7995 "Conrad and the “Scramble for Africa”",
7996 "Ford and Forster—Transition to Modernism",
7997 "Lawrence and the “Bright Book of Life”",
7998 "Joyce—Dublin and Dubliners",
7999 "Joyce—Realism and Anti-Realism",
8000 "Woolf and the Poetic Novel",
8001 "The Impact of the Novel"
8002 ],
8003 "id" : 2429,
8004 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/the-english-novel.html"
8005}{
8006 "professor" : "Professor Phillip Cary, Ph.D.",
8007 "title" : "History of Christian Theology",
8008 "description" : "Some 2,000 years ago, a man walked the earth who had a greater impact than any other person in history. Lowly born, he rose to prominence as he spread his vision of the redemption of the world. He attracted the attention of faithful disciples and suspicious local authorities. Eventually, he was tried, convicted, and executed.",
8009 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/6/4/6450---packaging_flat_4.1551363599.jpg",
8010 "lectures" : [
8011 "What Is Theology?",
8012 "Early Christian Proclamation",
8013 "Pauline Eschatology",
8014 "The Synoptic Gospels",
8015 "The Gospel of John",
8016 "Varieties of Early Christianity",
8017 "The Emergence of Christian Doctrine",
8018 "Christian Reading",
8019 "The Uses of Philosophy",
8020 "The Doctrine of the Trinity",
8021 "The Doctrine of the Incarnation",
8022 "The Doctrine of Grace",
8023 "The Incomprehensible and the Supernatural",
8024 "Eastern Orthodox Theology",
8025 "Atonement and the Procession of the Spirit",
8026 "Scholastic Theology",
8027 "The Sacraments",
8028 "Souls after Death",
8029 "Luther and Protestant Theology",
8030 "Calvin and Reformed Theology",
8031 "Protestants on Predestination",
8032 "Protestant Disagreements",
8033 "Anabaptists and the Radical Reformation",
8034 "Anglicans and Puritans",
8035 "Baptists and Quakers",
8036 "Pietists and the Turn to Experience",
8037 "From Puritans to Revivalists",
8038 "Perfection, Holiness, and Pentecostalism",
8039 "Deism and Liberal Protestantism",
8040 "Neo-Orthodoxy—From Kierkegaard to Barth",
8041 "Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism",
8042 "Protestantism after Modernity",
8043 "Catholic Theologies of Grace",
8044 "Catholic Mystical Theology",
8045 "From Vatican I to Vatican II",
8046 "Vatican II and Ecumenical Prospects"
8047 ],
8048 "id" : 6450,
8049 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/history-of-christian-theology.html"
8050}{
8051 "professor" : "Taught By Multiple Professors",
8052 "title" : "History of the United States, 2nd Edition",
8053 "description" : "This is the story of a country in which immigrants of the late 19th and early 20th centuries huddled in cramped tenement apartments lit by hazardous kerosene lamps. And a country that, little more than a half-century later, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith described as \"The Affluent Society.\"",
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8055 "lectures" : [
8056 "Living Bravely",
8057 "Spain, France, and the Netherlands",
8058 "Gentlemen in the Wilderness",
8059 "Radicals in the Wilderness",
8060 "Traders in the Wilderness",
8061 "An Economy of Slaves",
8062 "Printers, Painters, and Preachers",
8063 "The Great Awakening",
8064 "The Great War for Empire",
8065 "The Rejection of Empire",
8066 "The American Revolution—Politics and People",
8067 "The American Revolution—Howe's War",
8068 "The American Revolution—Washington's War",
8069 "Creating the Constitution",
8070 "Hamilton's Republic",
8071 "Republicans and Federalists",
8072 "Adams and Liberty",
8073 "The Jeffersonian Reaction",
8074 "Territory and Treason",
8075 "The Agrarian Republic",
8076 "The Disastrous War of 1812",
8077 "The \"American System\"",
8078 "A Nation Announcing Itself",
8079 "National Republican Follies",
8080 "The Second Great Awakening",
8081 "Dark Satanic Mills",
8082 "The Military Chieftain",
8083 "The Politics of Distrust",
8084 "The Monster Bank",
8085 "Whigs and Democrats",
8086 "American Romanticism",
8087 "The Age of Reform",
8088 "Southern Society and the Defense of Slavery",
8089 "Whose Manifest Destiny?",
8090 "The Mexican War",
8091 "The Great Compromise",
8092 "Sectional Tensions Escalate",
8093 "Drifting Toward Disaster",
8094 "The Coming of War",
8095 "The First Year of Fighting",
8096 "Shifting Tides of Battle",
8097 "Diplomatic Clashes and Sustaining the War",
8098 "Behind the Lines—Politics and Economies",
8099 "African Americans in Wartime",
8100 "The Union Drive to Victory",
8101 "Presidential Reconstruction",
8102 "Congress Takes Command",
8103 "Reconstruction Ends",
8104 "Industrialization",
8105 "Transcontinental Railroads",
8106 "The Last Indian Wars",
8107 "Farming the Great Plains",
8108 "African Americans after Reconstruction",
8109 "Men and Women",
8110 "Religion in Victorian America",
8111 "The Populists",
8112 "The New Immigration",
8113 "City Life",
8114 "Labor and Capital",
8115 "Theodore Roosevelt and Progressivism",
8116 "Mass Production",
8117 "World War I—The Road to Intervention",
8118 "World War I—Versailles and Wilson's Gambit",
8119 "The 1920s",
8120 "The Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression",
8121 "The New Deal",
8122 "World War II—The Road to Pearl Harbor",
8123 "World War II—The European Theater",
8124 "World War II—The Pacific Theater",
8125 "The Cold War",
8126 "The Korean War and McCarthyism",
8127 "The Affluent Society",
8128 "The Civil Rights Movement",
8129 "The New Frontier and the Great Society",
8130 "The Rise of Mass Media",
8131 "The Vietnam War",
8132 "The Women's Movement",
8133 "Nixon and Watergate",
8134 "Environmentalism",
8135 "Religion in Twentieth-Century America",
8136 "Carter and the Reagan Revolution",
8137 "The New World Order",
8138 "Clinton's America and the Millennium",
8139 "Reflections"
8140 ],
8141 "id" : 8500,
8142 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/history-of-the-united-states-2nd-edition.html"
8143}{
8144 "professor" : "Professor Paul Gordon Lauren, Ph.D.",
8145 "title" : "Rights of Man: Great Thinkers and Great Movements",
8146 "description" : "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. These stirring words are from the Declaration of Independence, one of the founding documents of the United States and a powerful example of the importance of human rights in Western civilization.",
8147 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/4/2/4242---packaging_flat_4.1551370361.jpg",
8148 "lectures" : [
8149 "The Rights of Man",
8150 "The Heavy Burden of the Past",
8151 "Religious Belief—Duties and Rights",
8152 "Early Philosophical Contributions",
8153 "Natural Rights and the Enlightenment",
8154 "Rights and Revolutions—America and France",
8155 "Rights of Man at the 18th Century's End",
8156 "Abolishing the International Slave Trade",
8157 "Emancipating Slaves and Serfs",
8158 "Promoting the Rights of Women",
8159 "Advancing the Rights of Workers",
8160 "Protecting the Rights of the Wounded",
8161 "Rights of Man as the 20th Century Begins",
8162 "Peacemaking and Rights—Paris, 1919",
8163 "New Departures for the Rights of Man",
8164 "The Gathering Storm and Attack on Rights",
8165 "War, Genocide, and a Crusade for Rights",
8166 "Peacemaking, Rights, and the United Nations",
8167 "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights",
8168 "The Right to Self-Determination",
8169 "The Right to Racial Equality",
8170 "Setting Standards and the Rule of Law",
8171 "Recent Achievements and Challenges",
8172 "The Rights of Man—Past, Present, and Future"
8173 ],
8174 "id" : 4242,
8175 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/rights-of-man-great-thinkers-and-great-movements.html"
8176}{
8177 "professor" : "Professor Robert Greenberg, Ph.D.",
8178 "title" : "The Symphony",
8179 "description" : "The great Bohemian-born composer Gustav Mahler once said, \"A symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything.\" Over the course of its nearly 300-year life, the symphony has indeed embraced almost every trend to be found in Western concert music.",
8180 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/7/2/7210---packaging_flat_4.1551365043.jpg",
8181 "lectures" : [
8182 "Let's Take It From the Top!",
8183 "The Concerto and the Orchestra",
8184 "The Pre-Classical Symphony",
8185 "Mannheim",
8186 "Classical Masters",
8187 "Franz Joseph Haydn, Part 1",
8188 "Franz Joseph Haydn, Part 2",
8189 "Mozart",
8190 "Beethoven",
8191 "Schubert",
8192 "Berlioz and the Symphonie fantastique",
8193 "Mendelssohn and Schumann",
8194 "Franck, Saint-Saens, and the Symphony in France",
8195 "Nationalism and the Symphony",
8196 "Brahms, Bruckner, and the Viennese Symphony",
8197 "Gustav Mahler",
8198 "Nielsen and Sibelius",
8199 "The Symphony in Russia",
8200 "Charles Ives",
8201 "Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber",
8202 "Roy Harris and William Schuman",
8203 "The Twentieth-Century British Symphony",
8204 "Olivier Messiaen and Turangalila!",
8205 "Dmitri Shostakovich and His Tenth Symphony"
8206 ],
8207 "id" : 7210,
8208 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/the-symphony.html"
8209}{
8210 "professor" : "Professor Kenneth W. Harl, Ph.D.",
8211 "title" : "Vikings",
8212 "description" : "As explorers and traders, the Vikings played a decisive role in the formation of Latin Christendom, and particularly of Western Europe. In this course, you will study the Vikings not only as warriors, but also in other roles for which they were equally extraordinary: merchants, artists, kings, raiders, seafarers, shipbuilders, and creators of a remarkable literature of myths and sagas.",
8213 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/3/9/3910---packaging_flat_4.1551363065.jpg",
8214 "lectures" : [
8215 "The Vikings in Medieval History",
8216 "Land and People of Medieval Scandinavia",
8217 "Scandinavian Society in the Bronze Age",
8218 "Scandinavia in the Celtic and Roman Ages",
8219 "The Age of Migrations",
8220 "The Norse Gods",
8221 "Runes, Poetry, and Visual Arts",
8222 "Legendary Kings and Heroes",
8223 "A Revolution in Shipbuilding",
8224 "Warfare and Society in the Viking Age",
8225 "Merchants and Commerce in the Viking Age",
8226 "Christendom on the Eve of the Viking Age",
8227 "Viking Raids on the Carolingian Empire",
8228 "The Duchy of Normandy",
8229 "Viking Assault on England",
8230 "The Danelaw",
8231 "Viking Assault on Ireland",
8232 "Norse Kings of Dublin and Ireland",
8233 "The Settlement of Iceland",
8234 "Iceland—A Frontier Republic",
8235 "Skaldic Poetry and Sagas",
8236 "Western Voyages to Greenland and Vinland",
8237 "Swedes in the Baltic Sea and Russia",
8238 "The Road to Byzantium",
8239 "From Varangians into Russians",
8240 "Transformation of Scandinavian Society",
8241 "St. Anskar and the First Christian Missions",
8242 "Formation of the Kingdom of Denmark",
8243 "Cnut the Great",
8244 "Collapse of Cnut’s Empire",
8245 "Jarls and Sea Kings of Norway",
8246 "St. Olaf of Norway",
8247 "Kings of the Swedes and Goths",
8248 "Christianization and Economic Change",
8249 "From Vikings to Crusaders",
8250 "The Viking Legacy"
8251 ],
8252 "id" : 3910,
8253 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/vikings.html"
8254}{
8255 "professor" : "Professor John M. Bowers, Ph.D.",
8256 "title" : "The Western Literary Canon in Context",
8257 "description" : "The Western literary canon has come to epitomize the official—and sometimes controversial—list of works that every educated person should know.",
8258 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/2/1/2120---packaging_flat_4.1551363716.jpg",
8259 "lectures" : [
8260 "The Bible and the Literary Canon",
8261 "The Bible as Literature",
8262 "The Epic of Gilgamesh—Western Literature?",
8263 "Homer's Odyssey and the Seafaring Hero",
8264 "The Context of Athenian Tragedy",
8265 "Herodotus versus Thucydides",
8266 "Socrates and Plato—Writing and Reality",
8267 "Aristotle's Poetics—How We Tell Stories",
8268 "Virgil's Aeneid and the Epic of Empire",
8269 "Love Interest—Ovid's Metamorphoses",
8270 "St. Augustine Saves the Classics",
8271 "All Literature is Consolation—Boethius",
8272 "Beowulf—The Fortunate Survivor",
8273 "King Arthur, Politics, and Sir Gawain",
8274 "Dante and the Canon of Christian Literature",
8275 "Boccaccio—Ancient Masters, Modern Rivals",
8276 "Chaucer—The Father of English Literature",
8277 "\"Man for All Seasons\"—More and His Utopia",
8278 "Hamlet—English Literature Goes Global",
8279 "Brave New Worlds—Shakespeare's The Tempest",
8280 "Cervantes's Don Quixote and the Novel",
8281 "The Rebel as Hero—Milton's Paradise Lost",
8282 "Voice of an Age—Voltaire's Candide",
8283 "Pride and Prejudice—Women in the Canon",
8284 "Nationalism and Culture in Goethe's Faust",
8285 "Melville's Moby-Dick and Global Literature",
8286 "Cult Classic—The Charterhouse of Parma",
8287 "East Meets West in War and Peace",
8288 "Joyce's Ulysses and the Avant-Garde",
8289 "The Magic Mountain and Modern Institutions",
8290 "Mrs. Dalloway and Post-War England",
8291 "T. S. Eliot's Divine Comedy",
8292 "Faulkner and the Great American Novel",
8293 "Willa Cather and Mosaics of Identity",
8294 "Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings—Literature?",
8295 "Postcolonialism—The Empire Writes Back"
8296 ],
8297 "id" : 2120,
8298 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/western-literary-canon-in-context.html"
8299}{
8300 "professor" : "Professor Malcolm W. Watson, Ph.D.",
8301 "title" : "Theories of Human Development",
8302 "description" : "Have you ever wondered where the terms \"terrible twos'' and \"identity crisis\" come from?",
8303 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/1/9/197---packaging_flat_5.1551364758.jpg",
8304 "lectures" : [
8305 "Introduction—The Value of Theories",
8306 "The Early History of Child Study",
8307 "Two Worldviews—Locke vs. Rousseau",
8308 "Later History—Becoming Scientific",
8309 "Freud's Psychodynamic Theory",
8310 "How We Gain Contact with Reality—The Ego",
8311 "Freud's Psycho-Sexual Stages",
8312 "Erikson's Psycho-Social Theory",
8313 "Erikson's Early Stages",
8314 "Identity and Intimacy",
8315 "Erikson's Later Stages—Adult Development",
8316 "Bowlby and Ainsworth's Attachment Theory",
8317 "How Nature Ensures That Attachment Will Occur",
8318 "Development of Secure and Insecure Attachments",
8319 "Early Attachments and Adult Relationships",
8320 "Bandura's Social Learning Theory",
8321 "Bandura's Self-Efficacy Theory",
8322 "Piaget's Cognitive-Developmental Theory",
8323 "Piaget's Early Stages",
8324 "Concrete Operations",
8325 "Piaget's Last Stage",
8326 "Vygotsky's Cognitive-Mediation Theory",
8327 "Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development",
8328 "Conclusions—Our Nature and Development"
8329 ],
8330 "id" : 197,
8331 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/theories-of-human-development.html"
8332}{
8333 "professor" : "Professor Edward J. Larson, Ph.D., J.D.",
8334 "title" : "Theory of Evolution: A History of Controversy",
8335 "description" : "Charles Darwin's theory of organic evolution—the idea that life on earth is the product of purely natural causes, not the hand of God—set off shock waves that continue to reverberate through Western society, and especially the United States. What makes evolution such a profoundly provocative concept, so convincing to most scientists, yet so socially and politically divisive? The Theory of Evolution: A History of Controversy is an examination of the varied elements that so often make this science the object of strong sentiments and heated debate.",
8336 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/1/7/174---packaging_flat_5.1551366204.jpg",
8337 "lectures" : [
8338 "Before Darwin",
8339 "Evolution in the Air",
8340 "Darwin's Inspiration",
8341 "An Intellectual Revolution",
8342 "Debates over Mechanism",
8343 "Missing Links",
8344 "Genetics Enters the Picture",
8345 "Social Darwinism and Eugenics",
8346 "America's Anti-Evolution Crusade",
8347 "The Neo-Darwinian Synthesis",
8348 "Scientific Creationism",
8349 "Selfish Genes and Intelligent Design"
8350 ],
8351 "id" : 174,
8352 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/theory-of-evolution-a-history-of-controversy.html"
8353}{
8354 "professor" : "Professor Jerry Z. Muller, Ph.D.",
8355 "title" : "Thinking about Capitalism",
8356 "description" : "As the economic system under which you live, capitalism shapes the marketplaces that determine where you live and work, how much you are paid, what you can buy, what you can accumulate toward your retirement, and every other aspect of a society based on monetary exchanges for goods and services. In an era of increasing globalization, capitalism has dramatically strengthened its important role in—and its influence on—the world economy. It is the system under which a majority of the world's population lives, and it continues to strengthen the links of interdependence between the world's economies.",
8357 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/5/6/5665---packaging_flat_4.1551364311.jpg",
8358 "lectures" : [
8359 "Why Think about Capitalism?",
8360 "The Greek and Christian Traditions",
8361 "Hobbes's Challenge to the Traditions",
8362 "Dutch Commerce and National Power",
8363 "Capitalism and Toleration—Voltaire",
8364 "Abundance or Equality—Voltaire vs. Rousseau",
8365 "Seeing the Invisible Hand—Adam Smith",
8366 "Smith on Merchants, Politicians, Workers",
8367 "Smith on the Problems of Commercial Society",
8368 "Smith on Moral and Immoral Capitalism",
8369 "Conservatism and Advanced Capitalism—Burke",
8370 "Conservatism and Periphery Capitalism—Möser",
8371 "Hegel on Capitalism and Individuality",
8372 "Hamilton, List, and the Case for Protection",
8373 "De Tocqueville on Capitalism in America",
8374 "Marx and Engels—The Communist Manifesto",
8375 "Marx's Capital and the Degradation of Work",
8376 "Matthew Arnold on Capitalism and Culture",
8377 "Individual and Community—Tönnies vs. Simmel",
8378 "The German Debate over Rationalization",
8379 "Cultural Sources of Capitalism—Max Weber",
8380 "Schumpeter on Innovation and Resentment",
8381 "Lenin's Critique—Imperialism and War",
8382 "Fascists on Capitalism—Freyer and Schmitt",
8383 "Mises and Hayek on Irrational Socialism",
8384 "Schumpeter on Capitalism's Self-Destruction",
8385 "The Rise of Welfare-State Capitalism",
8386 "Pluralism as Limit to Social Justice—Hayek",
8387 "Herbert Marcuse and the New Left Critique",
8388 "Contradictions of Postindustrial Society",
8389 "The Family under Capitalism",
8390 "Tensions with Democracy—Buchanan and Olson",
8391 "End of Communism, New Era of Globalization",
8392 "Capitalism and Nationalism—Ernest Gellner",
8393 "The Varieties of Capitalism",
8394 "Intrinsic Tensions in Capitalism"
8395 ],
8396 "id" : 5665,
8397 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/thinking-about-capitalism.html"
8398}{
8399 "professor" : "Professor William R. Cook, Ph.D.",
8400 "title" : "Tocqueville and the American Experiment",
8401 "description" : "How is it possible that perhaps the greatest book about U.S. democracy ever written was penned by a Frenchman visiting this country 175 years ago? Why is it still relevant in today’s ever-changing political landscape?",
8402 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/4/8/4863---packaging_flat_4.1551363590.jpg",
8403 "lectures" : [
8404 "An Overview of Democracy in America",
8405 "Alexis de Tocqueville—A Brief Biography",
8406 "The Journey to America",
8407 "Equality of Conditions and Freedom",
8408 "The Foundations of the American Experience",
8409 "Does America Have a Mixed Constitution?",
8410 "The American Constitution",
8411 "The Judiciary and Lawyers in America",
8412 "Democracy and Local Government",
8413 "Freedom of Speech in Theory and Practice",
8414 "Freedom of the Press",
8415 "Political Parties",
8416 "The Problem of the Tyranny of the Majority",
8417 "Political Associations",
8418 "Civil Associations",
8419 "Blacks and Indians",
8420 "Mores and Democracy",
8421 "Christianity and Democracy",
8422 "Education and Culture in Democracies",
8423 "Individualism in America",
8424 "The Desire for Wealth in America",
8425 "The Democratic Family",
8426 "Are Democracy and Excellence Compatible?",
8427 "Tocqueville’s Unanswered Questions"
8428 ],
8429 "id" : 4863,
8430 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/tocqueville-and-the-american-experiment.html"
8431}{
8432 "professor" : "Professor James Hall, Ph.D.",
8433 "title" : "Tools of Thinking: Understanding the World Through Experience and Reason",
8434 "description" : "What is the best way to prove a case, create a rule, solve a problem, justify an idea, invent a hypothesis, or evaluate an argument? In other words, what is the best way to think?",
8435 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/4/4/4413---packaging_flat_4.1551364666.jpg",
8436 "lectures" : [
8437 "What Are “Tools of Thinking”?",
8438 "Which Tools of Thinking Are Basic?",
8439 "Platonic Intuition, Memory, and Reason",
8440 "Intuition, Memory, and Reason—Problems",
8441 "Sense Experience—A More Modern Take",
8442 "Observation and Immediate Inferences",
8443 "Further Immediate Inferences",
8444 "Categorical Syllogisms",
8445 "Ancient Logic in Modern Dress",
8446 "Systematic Doubt and Rational Certainty",
8447 "The Limits of Sense Experience",
8448 "Inferences Demand Relevant Evidence",
8449 "Proper Inferences Avoid Equivocation",
8450 "Induction Is Slippery but Unavoidable",
8451 "The Scientific Revolution",
8452 "Hypotheses and Experiments—A First Look",
8453 "How Empirical Is Modern Empiricism?",
8454 "Hypotheses and Experiments—A Closer Look",
8455 "“Normal Science” at Mid-Century",
8456 "Modern Logic—Truth Tables",
8457 "Modern Logic—Sentential Arguments",
8458 "Modern Logic—Predicate Arguments",
8459 "Postmodern and New-Age Problems",
8460 "Rational Empiricism in the 21st Century"
8461 ],
8462 "id" : 4413,
8463 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/tools-of-thinking-understanding-the-world-through-experience-and-reason.html"
8464}{
8465 "professor" : "Professor David Sadava, Ph.D.",
8466 "title" : "Understanding Genetics: DNA, Genes, and Their Real-World Applications",
8467 "description" : "We use it routinely to cure diseases, solve crimes, and reunite families. Yet we've known about it for only 60 years. And what we're continuing to learn about it every day has the potential to transform our health, our nutrition, our society, and our future. What is this powerful mystery?",
8468 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/1/5/1533---packaging_flat_4.1551364635.jpg",
8469 "lectures" : [
8470 "Our Inheritance",
8471 "Mendel and Genes",
8472 "Genes and Chromosomes",
8473 "The Search for the Gene—DNA",
8474 "DNA Structure and Replication",
8475 "DNA Expression in Proteins",
8476 "Genes, Enzymes, and Metabolism",
8477 "From DNA to Protein",
8478 "Genomes",
8479 "Manipulating Genes—Recombinant DNA",
8480 "Isolating Genes and DNA",
8481 "Biotechnology—Genetic Engineering",
8482 "Biotechnology and the Environment",
8483 "Manipulating DNA by PCR and Other Methods",
8484 "DNA in Identification—Forensics",
8485 "DNA and Evolution",
8486 "DNA and Human Evolution",
8487 "Molecular Medicine—Genetic Screening",
8488 "Molecular Medicine—The Immune System",
8489 "Molecular Medicine—Cancer",
8490 "Molecular Medicine—Gene Therapy",
8491 "Molecular Medicine—Cloning and Stem Cells",
8492 "Genetics and Agriculture",
8493 "Biotechnology and Agriculture"
8494 ],
8495 "id" : 1533,
8496 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/understanding-genetics-dna-genes-and-their-real-world-applications.html"
8497}{
8498 "professor" : "Professor Arnold Weinstein, Ph.D.",
8499 "title" : "Understanding Literature and Life: Drama, Poetry and Narrative",
8500 "description" : "All too often, people fail to give the great books the attention they deserve. They might feel locked out of these masterpieces because they believe themselves unequipped to savor their richness. Or they might feel that great literature has only some antiquarian or museum value. As an introduction to the major texts of Western culture from antiquity to the present, this course empowers you to enter into these great works of the past.",
8501 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/2/1/210---packaging_flat_5.1551365434.jpg",
8502 "lectures" : [
8503 "Why Literature—Civilization and Its Discontents",
8504 "Oedipus the King and the Nature of Greek Tragedy",
8505 "Fate and Free Will—Reading the Signs in Oedipus",
8506 "Self-making vs. Self-discovery in Oedipus",
8507 "The Interpretive Afterlife of Oedipus",
8508 "Shakespeare's Othello—Tragedy of Marriage and State",
8509 "Poison in the Ear, or the Dismantling of Othello",
8510 "Rethinking Othello—Race, Gender and Subjectivity",
8511 "French Theater and Moliere's Comedy of Vices",
8512 "Tartuffe and Varieties of Imposture",
8513 "Religious Hypocrisy—Beyond Comedy",
8514 "Georg Büchner—Physician, Revolutionary, Playwright",
8515 "Woyzeck the Proletarian Murderer—\"Unaccommodated Man\"",
8516 "Woyzeck and Visionary Theater",
8517 "Strindberg's Father—Patriarchy in Trouble",
8518 "Marriage—Theatrical Agon or Darwinian Struggle?",
8519 "The Father—From Theater of Power to Power of Theater",
8520 "Beckett's Godot—Chaplinesque or Post-nuclear?",
8521 "Beckett and the Comedy of Undoing",
8522 "Godot Absent—Didi and Gogo Present",
8523 "Study of Literature—Approaches, Encounters, Departures",
8524 "Shakespeare's Sonnets—The Glory of Poetry",
8525 "The Shape of Love and Death in Shakespeare's Sonnets",
8526 "Innocence and Experience in William Blake",
8527 "Blakean Fables of Desire",
8528 "Blake—Visionary Poet",
8529 "Whitman and the Making of an American Bard",
8530 "\"Myself\" as Whitman's Nineteenth-Century American Hero",
8531 "Form and Flux, Openness and Anxiety in Whitman's Poetry",
8532 "Emily Dickinson—The Prophetic Voice from the Margins",
8533 "Dickinson and the Poetry of Consciousness",
8534 "Dickinson—Death and Beyond",
8535 "Baudelaire—The Setting of the Romantic Sun",
8536 "Baudelaire's Poetry of Modernism and Metropolis",
8537 "Robert Frost—The Wisdom of the People",
8538 "Frost—The Darker View",
8539 "Wallace Stevens and the Modernist Movement",
8540 "Stevens and the Post-Romantic Imagination",
8541 "Adrienne Rich and the Poetry of Protest",
8542 "Rich's Project—Diving into the Wreck of Western Culture",
8543 "The Lives of the Word—Reading Today",
8544 "Chretien de Troyes' Yvain—Growing Up in the Middle Ages",
8545 "Yvain's Theme—Ignorant Armies Clash By Night",
8546 "The Picaresque Novel—Satire, Filth and Hustling",
8547 "Francisco Quevedo's Swindler—The Word on the Street",
8548 "Daniel Defoe's Plain Style and the New World Order",
8549 "Moll Flanders and the Self-made Woman",
8550 "Matter and Spirit in Defoe",
8551 "Dickens—The Novel as Moral Institution",
8552 "Pip's Progress—From Blacksmith to Snob and Back",
8553 "Riddles of Identity in Great Expectations",
8554 "Charlotte Brontë and the Bildungsroman",
8555 "Jane Eyre—Victorian Bad Girl Makes Good",
8556 "The Madwoman in the Attic—19th Century Bills Coming Due",
8557 "Melville's \"Bartleby\" and the Genesis of Character",
8558 "\"Bartleby\"—Christ on Wall Street?",
8559 "Franz Kafka's \"Metamorphosis\"—Sacrifice or Power Game?",
8560 "Kafka's \"In the Penal Colony\"—The Writing Machine",
8561 "Faulkner's \"The Bear\"—Stories of White and Black",
8562 "\"The Bear\"—American Myth or American History?",
8563 "Tracking the Bear, or Learning to Read",
8564 "Alice Walker's Celie—The Untold Story",
8565 "Ideology as Vision in The Color Purple",
8566 "Reconceiving Center and Margin"
8567 ],
8568 "id" : 210,
8569 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/understanding-literature-and-life-drama-poetry-and-narrative.html"
8570}{
8571 "professor" : "Professor Robert Greenberg, Ph.D.",
8572 "title" : "Understanding the Fundamentals of Music",
8573 "description" : "We all know that beneath the surface of music, beyond the joy or excitement or even heartache that this beautiful language of sound can stir within us, lies the often mysterious realm of music theory—a complex syntax of structural and instrumental resources that composers may draw on.",
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8575 "lectures" : [
8576 "The Language of Music",
8577 "Timbre, Continued",
8578 "Timbre, Part 3",
8579 "Beat and Tempo",
8580 "Meter, Part 1",
8581 "Meter, Part 2",
8582 "Pitch and Mode, Part 1",
8583 "Pitch and Mode, Part 2",
8584 "Intervals and Tunings",
8585 "Tonality, Key Signature, and the Circle of Fifths",
8586 "Intervals Revisited and Expanded",
8587 "Melody",
8588 "Melody, Continued",
8589 "Texture and Harmony, Part 1",
8590 "Harmony, Part 2—Function, Tendency, and Dominance",
8591 "Harmony, Part 3—Progression, Cadence, and Modulation"
8592 ],
8593 "id" : 7261,
8594 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/understanding-the-fundamentals-of-music.html"
8595}{
8596 "professor" : "Professor Salim Yaqub, Ph.D.",
8597 "title" : "United States and the Middle East: 1914 to 9/11",
8598 "description" : "At the dawn of World War I, the United States was only a rising power. Our reputation was relatively benign among Middle Easterners, who saw no \"imperial ambitions\" in our presence and were grateful for the educational and philanthropic services Americans provided. Yet by September 11, 2001, everything had changed. The U.S. had now become a \"world colossus so prominent in the political, economic, and cultural life of the Middle East that it was the unquestioned target of those bent on attacking the West for its perceived offenses against Islam.\"",
8599 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/8/5/8593---packaging_flat_4.1551363070.jpg",
8600 "lectures" : [
8601 "A Meeting of Two Worlds",
8602 "Wilson & the Breakup of the Ottoman Empire",
8603 "The Interwar Period",
8604 "U.S. & the Middle East During World War II",
8605 "Origins of the Cold War in the Middle East",
8606 "Truman & the Creation of Israel",
8607 "Eisenhower, the Cold War & the Middle East",
8608 "The Suez Crisis & Arab Nationalism",
8609 "Kennedy—Engaging Middle Eastern Nationalism",
8610 "Johnson—Taking Sides",
8611 "The Six-Day War",
8612 "The Nixon Doctrine & the Middle East",
8613 "The Yom Kippur War & Kissinger's Diplomacy",
8614 "Carter & Camp David",
8615 "The Iranian Revolution & the Hostage Crisis",
8616 "Era of Limits—Energy Crises of the 1970s",
8617 "The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan",
8618 "Reagan & the Middle East",
8619 "The First Palestinian Intifada",
8620 "The Gulf War",
8621 "The Rise & Fall of the Oslo Peace Process",
8622 "The United States & the Kurds",
8623 "The United States & Osama bin Laden",
8624 "September 11 & Its Aftermath"
8625 ],
8626 "id" : 8593,
8627 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/united-states-and-the-middle-east-1914-to-9-11.html"
8628}{
8629 "professor" : "Professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, Ph.D.",
8630 "title" : "Utopia and Terror in the 20th Century",
8631 "description" : "From the trenches of World War I to Nazi Germany to Saddam Hussein's Iraq, the 20th century was a time of unprecedented violence. According to best estimates, in that 100-year span more than 200 million people were killed in world wars, government-sponsored persecutions, and genocides. Such monumental violence seems senseless. But it is not inexplicable. And if we can understand its origins, we may prevent even greater horrors in the century to come.",
8632 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/8/3/8313---packaging_flat_5.1551366434.jpg",
8633 "lectures" : [
8634 "Defining Utopia and Terror",
8635 "The Legacy of Revolutions",
8636 "Omens of Conflict",
8637 "World War I",
8638 "Total War—Mobilization and Mass Death",
8639 "Total Revolution in Russia",
8640 "War's Aftermath—The Hinge of Violence",
8641 "Communism",
8642 "Stalin",
8643 "Soviet Civilization",
8644 "Fascism",
8645 "The 1930's—The \"Low Dishonest Decade\"",
8646 "Nazism",
8647 "Hitler",
8648 "World War II",
8649 "Nazi Genocide and Master Plans",
8650 "The Cold War",
8651 "Mao",
8652 "Cambodia and Pol Pot's Killing Fields",
8653 "East Germany, the Soviet Union, North Korea",
8654 "From the Berlin Wall to the Balkans",
8655 "Rwanda",
8656 "Saddam Hussein's Iraq",
8657 "The Future of Terror"
8658 ],
8659 "id" : 8313,
8660 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/utopia-and-terror-in-the-20th-century.html"
8661}{
8662 "professor" : "Professor Patrick N. Allitt, Ph.D.",
8663 "title" : "Victorian Britain",
8664 "description" : "Darwin. Gladstone. Disraeli. Dickens. Meet the pioneering, paradoxical Britons of the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901). Through peaceful and gradual change they built one of the world's first industrial democracies—in a class-bound society with a powerful landed aristocracy and a negative view of business. They gloried in a globe-spanning and relatively humanely run empire—even as it distracted them from underlying economic weaknesses that presaged Britain's 20th-century decline. They were also intensely sentimental—yet ignored extreme squalor and hardship in their midst.Consider these other apparent contradictions:",
8665 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/8/4/8490---packaging_flat_4.1551372599.jpg",
8666 "lectures" : [
8667 "The Victorian Paradox",
8668 "Victoria’s Early Reign—1837-1861",
8669 "The Industrial Revolution—1750-1830",
8670 "Railways and Steamships",
8671 "Parliamentary Reform and Chartism",
8672 "The Upper- and Middle-Class Woman",
8673 "The Working-Class Woman",
8674 "The State Church and Evangelical Revival",
8675 "The Oxford Movement and Catholicism",
8676 "Work and Working-Class Life",
8677 "Poverty and the “Hungry Forties”",
8678 "Ireland, Famine, and Robert Peel",
8679 "Scotland and Wales",
8680 "Progress and Optimism",
8681 "China and the Opium War",
8682 "The Crimean War—1854-1856",
8683 "The Indian Mutiny—1857",
8684 "Victorian Britain and the American Civil War",
8685 "The British in Africa—1840-1880",
8686 "Victorian Literature I",
8687 "Art and Music",
8688 "Science",
8689 "Medicine and Public Health",
8690 "Architecture",
8691 "Education",
8692 "Trade Unions and the Labour Party",
8693 "Crime and Punishment",
8694 "Gladstone and Disraeli—1865-1881",
8695 "Ireland and Home Rule",
8696 "Democracy and Its Discontents",
8697 "The British in Africa—1880-1901",
8698 "Later Victorian Literature",
8699 "Leisure",
8700 "Domestic Servants",
8701 "Victoria After Albert—1861-1901",
8702 "The Victorian Legacy"
8703 ],
8704 "id" : 8490,
8705 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/victorian-britain.html"
8706}{
8707 "professor" : "Professor Alan Charles Kors, Ph.D.",
8708 "title" : "Voltaire and the Triumph of the Enlightenment",
8709 "description" : "Leading intellectual historian Alan Charles Kors shares with you his view of Voltaire as one of the most intriguing, influential, and elusive thinkers of the modern world. Focusing on the deepest, most enduring aspects of Voltaire's work and thought, but never losing sight of the colorful, fascinating man himself, Professor Kors sketches for you a vibrant, thought-provoking vision of Voltaire as \"the father of the Enlightenment\" and one of the great literary personalities of all time.",
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8711 "lectures" : [
8712 "“The Patriarch”—An Overview",
8713 "The Education of a Philosophe",
8714 "Philosophical Letters, Part I",
8715 "Philosophical Letters, Part II",
8716 "The Years of Cirey",
8717 "From Optimism to Humanism",
8718 "Voltaire and the Philosophical Tale",
8719 "Voltaire at Ferney",
8720 "Voltaire and God",
8721 "Voltaire and History",
8722 "Voltaire and Tradition",
8723 "Apotheosis"
8724 ],
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8726 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/voltaire-and-the-triumph-of-the-enlightenment.html"
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8728 "professor" : "Professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, Ph.D.",
8729 "title" : "War, Peace, and Power: Diplomatic History of Europe, 1500-2000",
8730 "description" : "For much of the past five centuries, the history of the European continent has been a history of chaos, its civilization thrown into turmoil by ferocious wars or bitter religious conflicts—sometimes in combination—that have made and remade borders, created and eliminated entire nations, and left a legacy that is still influencing our world.",
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8733 "Foundations of Diplomacy",
8734 "Europe in 1500—Ancient and New Monarchies",
8735 "Renaissance Statecraft in Italy",
8736 "Religion and Empire",
8737 "The Thirty Years' War",
8738 "The Peace of Westphalia, 1648—A New Era",
8739 "French Superpower",
8740 "The Great Powers",
8741 "Northern Earthquake",
8742 "18th-Century Competition",
8743 "Revolutions",
8744 "Napoleon's Glory and Defeat",
8745 "The Congress of Vienna",
8746 "The Concert of Europe System",
8747 "Eastern and Western Questions",
8748 "The Challenge of 1848 and Napoleon III",
8749 "Britain's Empire",
8750 "The Crimean War",
8751 "Italian Unification",
8752 "German Unification",
8753 "The Bismarckian System",
8754 "High Imperialism",
8755 "The Reconfigured World of 1900",
8756 "Balkan Instability",
8757 "The Outbreak of World War I",
8758 "World War I—Total War",
8759 "The Paris Settlement",
8760 "Interwar Europe",
8761 "Europe into Crisis",
8762 "World War II",
8763 "Aftermath and Peace Plans",
8764 "The Cold War Begins",
8765 "Blocs and Decolonization",
8766 "The European Project",
8767 "The Fall of the Wall",
8768 "Post–Cold War to the Present"
8769 ],
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8773 "professor" : "Professor J. Rufus Fears, Ph.D.",
8774 "title" : "Wisdom of History",
8775 "description" : "Do the lessons passed down to us by history, lessons whose origins may lie hundreds, even thousands, of years in the past, still have value for us today? Is Santayana's oft-repeated saying, \"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it\" merely a way to offer lip service to history as a teacher—or can we learn from it? And if we can, what is it that we should be learning?",
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8777 "lectures" : [
8778 "Why We Study History",
8779 "World War I and the Lessons of History",
8780 "Hitler's Rise and the Lessons of History",
8781 "World War II and the Lessons of History",
8782 "Is Freedom a Universal Value?",
8783 "Birth of Civilization in the Middle East",
8784 "The Trojan War and the Middle East",
8785 "Ancient Israel and the Middle East",
8786 "Ancient Greece and the Middle East",
8787 "Athenian Democracy and Empire",
8788 "The Destiny of the Athenian Democracy",
8789 "Alexander the Great and the Middle East",
8790 "The Roman Republic as Superpower",
8791 "Rome of the Caesars as Superpower",
8792 "Rome and the Middle East",
8793 "Why the Roman Empire Fell",
8794 "Christianity",
8795 "Islam",
8796 "The Ottoman Empire and Turkey",
8797 "The Spanish Empire and Latin America",
8798 "Napoleon's Liberal Empire",
8799 "The British Empire in India",
8800 "Russia and Empire",
8801 "China and Empire",
8802 "The Empire of Genghis Khan",
8803 "Britain's Legacy of Freedom",
8804 "George Washington as Statesman",
8805 "Thomas Jefferson as Statesman",
8806 "America's Empire of Liberty—Lewis and Clark",
8807 "America and Slavery",
8808 "Abraham Lincoln as Statesman",
8809 "The United States and Empire",
8810 "Franklin Roosevelt as Statesman",
8811 "A Superpower at the Crossroads",
8812 "The Wisdom of History and the Citizen",
8813 "The Wisdom of History and You"
8814 ],
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8816 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/wisdom-of-history.html"
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8818 "professor" : "Professor Kenneth W. Harl, Ph.D.",
8819 "title" : "The World of Byzantium",
8820 "description" : "Try this thought experiment: Mentally chart the main phases of European history to 1500. If you're like most of us, you probably hopscotched from classical Greece through Alexander the Great, from the Rome of the Caesars to the Renaissance, with a detour into the long post-Roman hiatus known as the Dark and Middle Ages.",
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8822 "lectures" : [
8823 "Imperial Crisis and Reform",
8824 "Constantine",
8825 "State and Society Under the Dominate",
8826 "Imperial Rome and the Barbarians",
8827 "The Rise of Christianity",
8828 "Imperial Church and Christian Dogma",
8829 "The Friends of God—Ascetics and Monks",
8830 "The Fall of the Western Empire",
8831 "The Age of Justinian",
8832 "The Reconquest of the West",
8833 "The Search for Religious Unity",
8834 "The Birth of Christian Aesthetics and Letters",
8835 "The Emperor Heraclius",
8836 "The Christian Citadel",
8837 "Life in the Byzantine Dark Age",
8838 "The Iconoclastic Controversy",
8839 "Recovery Under the Macedonian Emperors",
8840 "Imperial Zenith—Basil II",
8841 "Imperial Collapse",
8842 "Alexius I and the First Crusade",
8843 "Comnenian Emperors and Crusaders",
8844 "Imperial Exile and Restoration",
8845 "Byzantine Letters and Aesthetics",
8846 "The Fall of Constantinople"
8847 ],
8848 "id" : 367,
8849 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/world-of-byzantium.html"
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8851 "professor" : "Professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, Ph.D.",
8852 "title" : "World War I: The \"Great War\"",
8853 "description" : "From August 1914 to November 1918, an unprecedented catastrophe gripped the world that continues to reverberate into our own time. World War I was touched off by a terrorist act in Bosnia and all too quickly expanded far beyond the expectations of those who were involved to become the first \"total war\"—the first conflict involving entire societies mobilized to wage unrestrained war, devoting all their wealth, industries, institutions, and the lives of their citizens to win victory at any price.",
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8855 "lectures" : [
8856 "The Century's Initial Catastrophe",
8857 "Europe in 1914",
8858 "Towards Crisis in Politics and Culture",
8859 "Causes of the War and the July Crisis, 1914",
8860 "The August Madness",
8861 "The Failed Gambles—War Plans Break Down",
8862 "The Western Front Experience",
8863 "Life and Death in the Trenches",
8864 "The Great Battles of Attrition",
8865 "The Eastern Front Experience",
8866 "The Southern Fronts",
8867 "War Aims and Occupations",
8868 "Soldiers as Victims",
8869 "Storm Troopers and Future Dictators",
8870 "The Total War of Technology",
8871 "Air War",
8872 "War at Sea",
8873 "The Global Reach of the War",
8874 "The War State",
8875 "Propaganda War",
8876 "Endurance and Stress on the Home Front",
8877 "Dissent and Its Limits",
8878 "Remobilization in 1916–1917",
8879 "Armenian Massacres—Tipping into Genocide",
8880 "Strains of War—Socialists and Nationalists",
8881 "Russian Revolutions",
8882 "America’s Entry into the War",
8883 "America at War—Over There and Over Here",
8884 "1918—The German Empire’s Last Gamble",
8885 "The War’s End—Emotions of the Armistice",
8886 "Toppled Thrones—The Collapse of Empires",
8887 "The Versailles Treaty and Paris Settlement",
8888 "Aftershocks—Reds, Whites, and Nationalists",
8889 "Monuments, Memory, and Myths",
8890 "The Rise of the Mass Dictatorships",
8891 "Legacies of the Great War"
8892 ],
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8894 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/world-war-i-the-great-war.html"
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8896 "professor" : "Professor Thomas Childers, Ph.D.",
8897 "title" : "World War II: A Military and Social History",
8898 "description" : "Fifty-five million people died in the Second World War, the greatest conflict in human history.",
8899 "cover" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/plus_image/800x451/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/8/1/810---packaging_flat_4.1551363308.jpg",
8900 "lectures" : [
8901 "The Origins of the Second World War",
8902 "Hitler’s Challenge to the International System, 1933–1936",
8903 "The Failure of the International System",
8904 "The Coming of War",
8905 "Blitzkrieg",
8906 "The German Offensive in the West",
8907 "“Their Finest Hour”—Britain Alone",
8908 "The Battle of Britain",
8909 "Hitler Moves East",
8910 "The Germans Before Moscow",
8911 "The War in Asia",
8912 "The Japanese Gamble",
8913 "The Height of Japanese Power",
8914 "Turning the Tide in the Pacific—Midway and Guadalcanal",
8915 "The War in North Africa",
8916 "War in the Mediterranean—The Invasions of Sicily and Italy",
8917 "Stalingrad—The Turning Point on the Eastern Front",
8918 "Eisenhower and Operation Overlord",
8919 "D-Day to Paris",
8920 "Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge",
8921 "Advance Across the Pacific",
8922 "Turning Point in the Southwest Pacific—Leyte Gulf and the Philippines",
8923 "The Final Drive for Japan—Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and the Fire-Bombing of Tokyo",
8924 "War in the Air",
8925 "Hitler's New Order in Europe",
8926 "“The Man’s Army”",
8927 "Daily Life, Culture, and Society in Wartime",
8928 "The Race for Berlin",
8929 "Truman, the Bomb, and the End of the War in the Pacific",
8930 "The Costs of War"
8931 ],
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8933 "page" : "https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/world-war-ii-a-military-and-social-history.html"
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