Autumn Term	2	In Search of Human Nature: Why History is So Vital for Our Understanding of What It Means to Be Human
	3	Famous Stories We Tell Ourselves (I): The ‘Discovery’ of the Individual or the ‘Self-Fashioning’ of Renaissance Man? Jacob Burckhardt and Stephen Greenblatt
	4	Famous Stories We Tell Ourselves (II): The ‘Scientific Revolution’
	5	Discovering Human Nature? The Case of Sixteenth–Century Anatomy
	6	READING WEEK
	7	Man Possessed: How to Become Holy or Demoniac in the Early Modern World
	8	Of Monsters and Cannibals: Europeans Encounter the New World ‘Other’
	9	Challenging God’s Power? The ‘Invention’ of a 'Curious' Human Nature in the Seventeenth Century
	10	Body and Soul Re-Thought: Man as Machine and the Changing Animal/Human Relationship in the 17th Century
Spring term	1	Who is 'Man'? The Quest for Human Nature and the ‘Science of Man’ in the Enlightenment
	2	Is the Savage Noble: Exploration, Cross-Cultural Encounter and the Question of Human Races in the 18th Century
	3	‘All Men are Equal’: But Women are Not!
	4	Human Nature, Commerce and Corruption: The Invention of a 'Homo Economicus' in the Eighteenth Century
	5	The ‘Invention’ of Pornography: Exploring Man’s Sexual Fantasies
	6	READING WEEK
	7	Bringing the Psyche into Focus (I) – an Introduction
	8	Bringing the Psyche into Focus (II): The Problem of the Individual Self and Its Relationship to Society
	9	The Theory of Evolution and Its Problems
	10	‘Penis Envy’, ‘Castration Anxiety’, ‘Oedipus Complex’ and ‘Perversion’: the Invention of an Unconscious Human Nature in 19th-Century Vienna
Summer Term		Week 1: NO LECTURE -- VIDEO NIGHT Week 1: Revision of Term I (lecture and seminar) Week 2: Revision of Term II (lecture and seminar)