FF:ESA913 European Culture Studies - Course Information
ESA913 European Culture Studies: Europe and Revolutions
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2020
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Rostislav Niederle, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Rostislav Niederle, Ph.D.
Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ing. Ivana Vašinová
Supplier department: Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Wed 18:00–19:40 C33
- Prerequisites
- The course is opened as optional to the wide range of students in humanities without special requirements.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- Course deals with divers topics from European culture, art, and history with a special regard to cross-influences, contextuality and interpenetrations of the cultural, social and national identities.
- Learning outcomes
- A student will learn from the European cultural tradition a several themes and motifs (authors, institutions, myths, philosophy, religion).
- Syllabus
- Teaching lessons and film-projections concerning divers topis of European culture
- John Ruskin: Unto This Last (1862)
- Hannah Arendt and the Crisis of Culture
- Oswald Spengler and his vision of Decline
- Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer: Critique of Enlightenment
- Europe, Totalitarian States and their Aesthetic Doctrines
- Sources of the Modern Europe, its Art and Culture
- Literature
- HUNTINGTON, Samuel P. Střet civilizací :boj kultur a proměna světového řádu. Vyd. 1. Praha: Rybka Publishers, 2001, v, 447 s. ISBN 80-86182-49-5. info
- DAWSON, Christopher. Porozumět Evropě. Translated by Miroslav Kratochvíl. 1. vyd. Praha: Zvon, 1995, 234 s. ISBN 80-7113-138-5. info
- ARENDT, Hannah. Krize kultury : (čtyři cvičení v politickém myšlení). Translated by Martin Palouš. 1. vyd. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1994, 157 s. ISBN 8020404244. info
- GUARDINI, Romano. Konec novověku : pokus o orientaci. Translated by Otakar Veselý. Vyd. 1. Praha: Vyšehrad, 1992, 95 s. ISBN 8070210559. info
- RUSKIN, John. Unto this last : and other writings by John Ruskin. Edited by Clive Wilmer. London: Penguin Books, 1985, 362 s. ISBN 9780140432114. info
- BACHTIN, Michail Michajlovič. François Rabelais a lidová kultura středověku a renesance. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon - nakladatelství krásné literatury a umění, 1975, 406 s. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures, film projections
- Assessment methods
- written essay based on recommended literature, a colloquium about it
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
Information on completion of the course: Obecné podmínky ukončování kursů Semináře estetiky
The course is taught only once.
General note: Obecné podmínky ukončování kursů Semináře estetiky. Výuka bude zajištěna vždy v souladu s požadavky prevence: buď po skupinách, hybridně nebo distančně s využitím médií.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2020, recent)
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