Informações sobre o curso: This course examines how the idea of "the modern" develops at the end of the 18th century in European philosophy and literature, and how being modern (or progressive, or hip) became one of the crucial criteria for understanding and evaluating cultural change. Are we still in modernity, or have we moved beyond the modern to the postmodern?
Desenvolvido por: Wesleyan University
Ministrado por: Michael S. Roth
| Compromisso | 3-5 horas/semana |
| Idioma | English |
| Como ser aprovado | Seja aprovado em todas as tarefas para concluir o curso. |
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Programa
SEMANA 1
Course Pages
“The Modern and the Postmodern Part I” covers the first half of a full semester course on European history, literature and philosophy. We begin with Immanuel Kant and Jean Jacques Rousseau and conclude with Friedrich Nietzsche and Charles Baudelaire and a very quick look at painting at the time they wrote. Although in the final week themes of postmodernism begin to emerge, a discussion of how modernism becomes postmodernism is at the heart of Part II of this course.
2 readings
- Lesevorgang: Syllabus
- Lesevorgang: Course Logistics
Philosophy, Modernity, and Intellectual History
Why is philosophy relevant to modernity?
Through reading Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant, we examine philosophy as a reflection on modernity and progress.
2 videos, 1 reading
- Lesevorgang: Philosophy and Modernity -- Kant
- Vídeo: Philosophy, Modernity, and Intellectual History II
SEMANA 2
What is Enlightenment?
Using Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, we study how the pursuit of knowledge is related to the politics of inequality.
4 videos, 1 reading
- Lesevorgang: What is Enlightenment?--Rousseau
- Vídeo: What is Enlightenment? II
- Vídeo: What is Enlightenment? III
- Vídeo: What is Enlightenment? IV
SEMANA 3
From Enlightenment to Revolution
Karl Marx is our focus here as we move from a consideration of ideas to a confrontation with alienation, class struggle and revolution.
5 videos, 1 reading
- Lesevorgang: From Enlightenment to Revolution--Marx
- Vídeo: From Enlightenment to Revolution II
- Vídeo: From Enlightenment to Revolution III
- Vídeo: From Enlightenment to Revolution IV
- Vídeo: From Enlightenment to Revolution V
Nota atribuída: First Writing Assignment
SEMANA 4
Modernism and Art for Art's Sake
We read Flaubert’s Madame Bovary as a reflection on convention, stupidity and art in the wake of the failures of mid-19th century revolution.
4 videos, 1 reading
- Lesevorgang: Modernism and Art for Art's Sake--Flaubert
- Vídeo: Modernism and Art for Art's Sake II
- Vídeo: Modernism and Art for Art's Sake III
- Vídeo: Modernism and Art for Art's Sake IV
Nota atribuída: Second Writing Assignment
SEMANA 5
Re-imagining the World
We situate Charles Darwin’s great achievement in the context of the English Enlightenment traditions and reimaging the world without a goal for change.
4 videos, 1 reading
- Lesevorgang: Re-imagining the World--Darwin
- Vídeo: Re-imagining the World II
- Vídeo: Re-imagining the World III
- Vídeo: Re-imagining the World IV
SEMANA 6
From Struggle to Intensity
Through an examination of Charles Baudelaire and Friedrich Nietzsche, we focus on an aesthetic embrace of intensity instead of search for the “really real.”
6 videos, 1 reading
- Lesevorgang: From Struggle to Intensity--Baudelaire and Nietzsche
- Vídeo: From Struggle to Intensity II
- Vídeo: From Struggle to Intensity III
- Vídeo: From Struggle to Intensity IV
- Vídeo: From Struggle to Intensity V
- Vídeo: From Struggle to Intensity VI
Nota atribuída: Third Writing Assignment
SEMANA 7
Paintings
A Quick Survey of how advanced painting moved toward a consideration of the surface of the canvas and away from a quest for the most realistic representation of the world.
2 videos
- Vídeo: Paintings II
Perguntas frequentes
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