Breadcrumb Home Politics POL 214 POL 214: Modern Political Philosophy II: Idealism, Historicism, Nihilism Download as PDF Class Program Politics Credits 3 Session Cycle Spring Only Yearly Cycle Every Year This course begins with Rousseau's philosophic critique of human nature and examines the development of that critique in the political philosophy of Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche and other late modern theorists.