Important texts of German culture (Goethe-Freud-Simmel) 4018-KONW158
The proposed reading material focuses the attention on a number of important issues of 19th- and 20th-century German culture, while the suggested writers today belong to the canon of world history of ideas.
This is one of few courses intended for students interested in learning about the German humanist tradition in European culture. Familiarity with the required reading also facilitates contemporary humanities and cultural studies research on the 19th and 20th centuries. The course is taught in Polish as a seminar.
Friedrich Schiller: Zbójcy.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Faust I.
Friedrich Nietzsche: Tak rzekł Zarathustra (ks. I-IV).
Sigmund Freud: Objaśnianie marzeń sennych.
-Psychopatologia życia codziennego; Marzenia senne.
-Kultura jako źródło cierpień.
-Dowcip i jego stosunek do nieświadomości.
Georg Simmel: Filozofia kultury: wybór esejów. ( Mieszkańcy wielkich miast, O modzie).
Carl Gustaw Jung: Archetypy i symbole : pisma wybrane.
-Analiza marzeń sennych. (fragm.)
Type of course
Learning outcomes
1. Critical analysis of the works proposed as course reading.
2. Identifying the formal structure (build) and indicating the characteristic features of a given work.
3. Formulating interpretation hypotheses.
4. Reconstructing the historical and social context of a work.
5. Assessing the extent to which given works overstep/enrich tradition, their contribution to culture and their contemporary significance.
Knowledge: improvement of erudition (facts and rules of conduct) related to the reception of German culture, as referenced by 19th- and 20th-century creators of culture.
Skills: a changed style of learning from passive to active, development of independent learning and interests, proficiency in hermeneutic consideration of texts.
Social competence: references to European culture contribute to developing an attitude of social maturity, assuming that European culture encompasses people's common existential experience and forms a universal plane of communication.
Assessment criteria
Criteria: active participation in discussions and their evaluation (the degree of insight in analyses, formulation of interpretation hypotheses, the level of their justification and originality, use made of available literature, identifying the most important or characteristic elements of the problem and formal structure of a given text, analysing their function).
Methods: continuous assessment and a final graded oral or written test.
Bibliography
Marek Siemek: Fryderyk Schiller, Warszawa 1970.
F. Schiller: Dzieła wybrane (T. 1-3), red. Barbara Płaczkowska, Warszawa 1955.
J. W. Goethe: Dramaty wybrane, wybór S. Lichański, Warszawa 1984.
H. A Korff, Geist der Goethezeit, 5 Bde, Darmstadt 1977.
Sigmund Freud: Objaśnianie marzeń sennych, Warszawa 2015.
-Psychopatologia życia codziennego; Marzenia senne, Warszawa 2003.
-Kultura jako źródło cierpień, Warszawa 2013.
-Dowcip i jego stosunek do nieświadomości, Warszawa 1993.
Georg Simmel: Filozofia kultury: wybór esejów, Kraków 2007.
Carl Gustaw Jung: Archetypy i symbole : pisma wybrane, Warszawa 1993.
-Analiza marzeń sennych, Warszawa 2015.
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