The Classics & Modernity examines Western culture from the Renaissance to World War II. Beginning with the Italian Renaissance, The Classics & Modernity traces major movements like the Protestant Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment. As the modern world takes hold, The Classics & Modernity shifts to the significant figures whose writings shaped the age in which they lived, including John Locke, James Madison, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, John Dewey, and C.S. Lewis.