FF:PH0263 Voltaire - Course Information
PH0263 Voltaire
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2017
- 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
- prof. PhDr. Josef Krob, CSc.
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Hana Holmanová
Supplier department: Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts - 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 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Philosophy (programme FF, B-HS)
- Philosophy (programme FF, B-PH) (5)
- Philosophy (programme FF, N-HS)
- Philosophy (programme FF, N-PH) (2)
- 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) (2)
- 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".
- 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)
- Information on the extent and intensity of the course: e-learning.
- Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2017, recent)
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