TTC Audio – Origin of the Modern Mind

The Origin of the Modern Mind (The Great Courses) (Audiobook) By Professor Alan Charles Kors
1992 | 5 hours and 56 mins | ISBN: n/a , ASIN: B000E31QE2 | M4A | 83.8 MB

Professor Alan Charles Kors recreates the teeming intellectual atmosphere of the 17th century as he reveals the issues, activities, and thoughts that engendered the birth of the modern mind and modern thinking.

Alan Charles Kors
Ph.D., Harvard University
University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Alan Charles Kors is Henry Charles Lea Professor of European History at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been teaching since 1968. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and his master’s and doctoral degrees from Harvard University. He received postdoctoral fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University, and the Smith Richardson Foundation.

Professor Kors won two awards for distinguished college teaching and the Engalitcheff Award for defense of academic freedom. He is president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.

Professor Kors is the author and editor of several books on European intellectual history, including D’Holbach’s Coterie: An Enlightenment in Paris; Atheism in France, 1660-1729: The Orthodox Sources of Disbelief; and Anticipations of the Enlightenment in England, France, and Germany. He is editor-in-chief of the four-volume Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. With Harvey A. Silverglate, he is coauthor of The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America’s Campuses.

Professor Kors has served as a member of the Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities and on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals.