Evolution of European Civilisation 4003-201ECE
The lecture discusses the evolution of European civilization focusing on issues that determined a role of Europe (the EU as well as particular member states) in a contemporary world. This approach should help students in understanding how Europe’s past influences its political, social, and cultural life today. It should also enable them to better understand of the ideas underling the European integration project, that in a socio-cultural shpere center around a concept of the European identity. Subsequent lectures discuss such issues as cultural foundations of Europe, European colonialism and world domination, globalization and multiculturalism, and – eventually – peculiar position of Poland and other Central-Easter European states within Europe.
The lecture is designed for MA-level students who already posses the basic knowledge of social and cultural history of Europe.
Student's workload:
lecture - 30 h
preparation to the lecture - 45 h
preparation to the exam - 45 h
total - 120 h
Type of course
Learning outcomes
At the end of a teaching process a student:
1. knowledge:
• knows such concepts as “civilization”, “European civilization”, “Western civilization”, “civilization crisis”,
• knows the foundations of European civilization,
• knows reasons and results of European colonization, understands concepts: “globalization”, “world-economy”, “European universalism”, “orientalisaton”, “post-colonial critique”,
• knows and understands contemporary discussions on European culture / civilization including concepts of supra-national and post-national Europe,
• understands reasons and results of the Polish / CEE peculiar position within European civilization.
2. skills:
• independently observes civilizational processes taking place in contemporary Europe;
• understands the place of European civilization in the world history and observes it’s consequences in current politics,
• understands the importance of common past for the processes of European integration.
3. attitudes:
• be able to apply her/his theoretical knowledge of nations and nationalisms to analyze current phenomena,
• become more diligent and honest thanks to the necessity of meeting strict course requirements.
Assessment criteria
Written exam: kowledge of the course material (2/3 of a grade) and chosen readings (1/3 of a grade). .
Bibliography
Readings:
- F. Braudel, Gramatyka cywilizacji, Warszawa 2006.
- N. Davies, Europa: rozprawa historyka z historią, Kraków 1999.
- K. Pomian, Niższe? Wyższe? Równe? Cywilizacja europejska wobec innych, „Przegląd Historyczny”, nr 5/2005, s. 391-401.
- P. Rietbergen, Europa. Dzieje kultury, Warszawa 2001.
- E. Said, Orientalizm, Poznań 2005.
- E. McNall Burns, Western civilizations: their history and their culture, New Your 1969.
- W. Tatarkiewicz, Cywilizacja i kultura, w tegoż: Parerga, Warszawa 1978, s.74-92.
- L. Wolff, Inventing Eastern Europe: the map of civilization on the mind of the Enlightenment, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.
Additional readings:
- Z. Bauman, Europa: niedokończona przygoda, Kraków 2005.
- U. Beck, E. Grande, Europa kosmopolityczna. Społeczeństwo i polityka w drugiej nowoczesności, Warszawa 2009.
- N. Fergusson, Cywilizacja. Zachód i reszta świata, Warszawa 2013.
- L. Gandhi, Teoria postkolonialna: wprowadzenie krytyczne, Poznań 2008.
- Globalizacja i co dalej?, red. S. Amsterdamski, Warszawa 2004
- J. Goody, Kradzież historii, Warszawa 2009.
- J. Habermas, Obywatelstwo a tożsamość narodowa. Rozważania nad przyszłością Europy, Warszawa 1993, s.17-26.
- A. Horolets, Obrazy Europy w polskim dyskursie publicznym, Kraków 2006.
- J. Kieniewicz, Wprowadzenie do historii cywilizacji Wschodu i Zachodu, Warszawa 2003.
- Ph. Nemo, Co to jest Zachód?, Warszawa 2006.
- J. Sowa, Fantomowe ciało króla: peryferyjne zmagania z nowoczesną formą, Kraków 2011.
- I. Wallerstein, Analiza systemów-światów: wprowadzenie, Warszawa 2007.
- I. Wallerstein, Europejski uniwersalizm. Retoryka władzy, Warszawa 2007.
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