FF:PHV336 Voltaire: Reading - Course Information
PHV336 Voltaire: Reading
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2025
The course is not taught in Spring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. PhDr. Dagmar Pichová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Dagmar Pichová, Ph.D.
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- ! PH0263 Voltaire
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Philosophy (programme FF, B-HS)
- Philosophy (programme FF, B-PH) (5)
- Philosophy (programme FF, B-PH_) (6)
- Philosophy (programme FF, N-HS)
- Philosophy (programme FF, N-PH) (2)
- Philosophy (programme FF, N-PH_) (3)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Social Studies Basics (programme FF, N-MA)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Social Studies Basics (programme FF, N-SS) (4)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Social Studies Basics (programme FF, N-ZA_) (4)
- Course objectives
- The aim of the course is to introduce students to Voltaire and his philosophical thought, especially to the problem of philosophy and "littérature engagée".
- Learning outcomes
- At the end of the course students will be able to;
identify significant themes in Voltaire´s philosophy;
determine and characterize key themes in French Enlightenment Philosophy;
understand the historical and cultural context of Voltaire´s work. - Syllabus
- Voltaire and his time
- Voltaire and Encyclopedia
- Philosophy and power
- Philosophy and litterature
- Literature
- DENIS, Benoît. Littérature et engagement : de Pascal à Sartre. Paris: Seuil, 2000, 316 s. ISBN 2020361582. info
- VOLTAIRE. Výbor z díla. Translated by Hana Horská. Vyd. 2. Praha: Svoboda, 1989, 246 s. ISBN 802050009X. URL info
- VOLTAIRE. Romans et contes. Edited by Roland Barthes - José Lupin. Paris: Gallimard, 1981, 602 s. info
- VOLTAIRE. Romány a povídky. Vyd. v SNKLHU 1. Praha: Státní nakladatelství krásné literatury, hudby a umění, 1960. info
- GAY, Peter. Voltaire's politics : the poet as realist. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1959, xiii, 417. info
- VOLTAIRE. Voltaire : myslitel a bojovník. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní nakladatelství politické literatury, 1957, 513 s. URL info
- VOLTAIRE. Voltaire : myslitel a bojovník. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní nakladatelství politické literatury, 1957, 599 s. URL info
- Teaching methods
- e-learning
- Assessment methods
- homework (study of selected texts), final essay on selected theme (5 pages)
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Course is no more offered.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: e-learning.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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