UZHIA226 Fundamental problems and concepts of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Jiří Hanuš, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Malíř, CSc.
Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Hana Ambrožová
Timetable
Tue 8:20–9:55 A21 stara
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Předpokladem pro zapsání do kurzu je absolvování bakalářského studia historie.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course is focused on the analysis of basic concepts (eg. modernization, revolution, nacionalism, secularization, socialism) used in historiography a social sciences to characterize historical events and processes in the 19th and 20th centuries.The terms are analysed on concrete resources dealing with the understanding of time and space, utopian thought, understanding of progress, ideology, beginning of political parties, national principle, the decline of religion in the public sphere, civic principle and europocentrism. The aims of the course is to teach students to analyse modern social structures, institutions, mentality, and differentiate modern and pre-modern society.
Syllabus
  • 1. Politics, the triumph of liberalism
  • 2. Ideologies and institutions
  • 3. Socialism, the workers, and the cooperative society
  • 4. Conservatism, and the hierarchical society
  • 5. "The spirit of capitalism"
  • 6. Modern culture, secularization and science
  • 7. International politics, peace and war, imperialism
  • 8. Europe and other worlds
Literature
  • GAUCHET, Marcel. Dějinný úděl : rozhovory s Françoisem Azouvim a Sylvainem Pironem. Translated by Pavla Doležalová. 1. vyd. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury (CDK), 2006, 203 s. ISBN 8073250721. info
  • RIETBERGEN, P. J. A. N. Europe : a cultural history. 2. ed. London: Routledge, 2006, xxxvii, 54. ISBN 0415323592. info
  • GELLNER, Ernest. Nacionalismus. Translated by Hana Novotná - Petr Skalník. 1. vyd. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2003, 133 s. ISBN 80-7325-023-3. info
  • MURAVCHIK, Joshua. Nebe na zemi :vzestup a pád socialismu. Translated by Michael Žantovský. 1. vyd. v čes. jaz. Praha: BB art, 2003, 375 s. ISBN 80-7341-016-8. info
  • FURET, François and Alain BESANÇON. Komunismus a fašismus. Praha: Institut pro středoevropskou kulturu a politiku, 2002, 276 s. ISBN 80-86130-21-5. info
  • ARENDT, Hannah. Mezi minulostí a budoucností : osm cvičení v politickém myšlení. Translated by Tomáš Suchomel - Martin Palouš. 1. vyd. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2002, 262 s. info
  • GELLNER, Ernest. Pluh, meč a kniha :struktura lidských dějin. 1. vyd. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2001, 263 s. ISBN 80-85959-87-9. info
  • HROCH, Miroslav. V národním zájmu :požadavky a cíle eropských národních hnutí devatenáctého století ve srovnávací perspektivě. Praha: Lidové noviny, 1999, 199 s. ISBN 80-7106-298-7. info
  • HOBSBAWM, E. J. Věk extrémů : krátké 20. století 1914-1991. Translated by Jana Pečírková - Petr Štěpánek. Vyd. 1. Praha: Argo, 1998, 619 s. ISBN 8072031848. info
  • ARENDT, Hannah. Původ totalitarismu. 1. vyd. Praha: Oikoymenh, 1996, 679 s. ISBN 80-86005-13-5. info
  • FURET, François. Promýšlet francouzskou revoluci. Edited by Hana Pospíšilová, Translated by Petr Horák. Vyd. 1. Brno: Atlantis, 1994, 207 s. ISBN 8071080896. info
  • GELLNER, Arnošt. Národy a nacionalismus [Gellner, 1993, 2. vyd.] : Nations and nationalism (Orig.). Translated by Jiří Markus. 2. vyd. Praha: Josef Hříbal, 1993, 158 s. ISBN 80-901381-1-X. info
  • HOBSBAWM, Eric J. Nations and nationalism since 1780 : programme, myth, reality. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, viii, 191. ISBN 0-521-33507-8. info
  • GAUCHET, Marcel. La révolution des droits de l'homme. [Paris]: Gallimard, 1989, xxv, 341 s. ISBN 2-07-071583-3. info
Teaching methods
Lectures with student discussions.
Assessment methods
Written tests.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008.
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