Бакалавриат
2019/2020
Модерн и Постмодерн (Часть 2)
Статус:
Курс по выбору (Культурология)
Направление:
51.03.01. Культурология
Кто читает:
Школа культурологии
Где читается:
Факультет гуманитарных наук
Когда читается:
3-й курс, 3 модуль
Формат изучения:
с онлайн-курсом
Преподаватели:
Ганжа Анна Геннадиевна
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
3
Контактные часы:
4
Course Syllabus
Abstract
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? This discipline uses massive open-online course 'The Modern and the Postmodern, part two', created by Wesleyan University via Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modern-postmodern-2.
Learning Objectives
- This course will form an original intellectual navigation system in the cultural space of XIX–XX cc. It will follow the dynamics of movement from modern to postmodern, leaning on such figures as Freud, Woolf, Emerson, Horkheimer and Adorno, Foucault and Latour.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- You will learn why the XXth century intellectuals criticized Enlightenment so often, who were predecessors of Postmodern in the first half of the XXth century and what role was played in its establishment by European critical tradition.
Course Contents
- Intensity and the Ordinary: Sex, Death, Aggression and Guilt.With a focus on Civilization and its Discontents, we examine how Freud’s theories tried to expose profound instincts as they appeared in daily life. This theme is learned by students on MOOC 'The Modern and the Postmodern, part two'.
- Intensity and the Ordinary: Art, Loss, ForgivenessA reading of Virginia Woolf’s modernist novel To the Lighthouse shows how giving up the search for the “really real” can liberate one to attend to the everyday. This theme is learned by students on MOOC 'The Modern and the Postmodern, part two'.
- The Postmodern EverydayWe go back to Ralph Waldo Emerson and forward to Ludwig Wittgenstein to consider how forms of life and language games need to foundation to be compelling. This theme is learned by students on MOOC 'The Modern and the Postmodern, part two'.
- From Critical Theory to PostmodernismThrough a consideration of Max Horkheimer & Theodor Adorno along with Michel Foucault, we confront the philosophical effort to escape from totality in order to understand the politics of control. This theme is learned by students on MOOC 'The Modern and the Postmodern, part two'.
- Paintings IIA very brief consideration of how artists are responding to the loss of foundations to produce work that redefines art. This theme is learned by students on MOOC 'The Modern and the Postmodern, part two'.
- Postmodern IdentitiesWe examine short pieces by Judith Butler and Slavjo Zizek to understand how identities get formed (and performed) in a world without foundations. This theme is learned by students on MOOC 'The Modern and the Postmodern, part two'.
- Late-term ReviewReview of all the thinkers we have studied in Parts I and II of the class, along with some complementary material. This theme is learned by students on MOOC 'The Modern and the Postmodern, part two'.
- Postmodern PragmatismsAfter postmodern playfulness, or alongside it, we see the resurgence of the pragmatic impulse to return philosophy to real human problems. This theme is learned by students on MOOC 'The Modern and the Postmodern, part two'.
Interim Assessment
- Interim assessment (3 module)0.25 * Essay + 0.5 * Final exam + 0.25 * Online course
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Zima, P. V. (2010). Modern/Postmodern : Society, Philosophy, Literature. London: Continuum. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=378010
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Evans, C. S. (2018). A History of Western Philosophy : From the Pre-Socratics to Postmodernism. Downers Grove: IVP Academic. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1907452