Frontiers of Humanities 3700-AL-FoHum
The course serves as a general introduction to humanities by the means of the investigation of a chosen phenomenon within heterogenous contexts, in order to identify its historical and original meanings and its cultural metamorphoses.
The course cultivates the necessity of interdisciplinary approach to humanities.
It aims at developing methodological awareness and the capacity of critical thinking that allow to disclose the ideological conditionings of the scientific discourse.
Finally, the course refines the ability to understand the public discourse and to partake in it with awareness.
Power and language, memory and imagination, art and poetry, myth and symbol, nature and technique, science and believes, ideologies and practices represent the humanities’ borderline as phenomena that can be overcome, modified, at times even removed, but that before all denote the categories of reality one needs to understand critically and historically. Men moves on, thinks and creates their worlds, norms of conduct, criteria of justice, expectations while maintaining some relations with these phenomena – relations that are neither unequivocal, nor historical unambiguous. For this reason, these phenomena are not only the object of perpetual interpretation (by the means of the search for their historical beginning and their explanation and justification), but are recreated over and over.
Men cannot be divided from the phenomena to which they give significance, and the phenomena are not to be split from the culture, through which human societies and single individuals enter into relation with them. The historical investigation of a single phenomenon is a search for reasons why men entertain a relation with it, is afraid of it, creates it, transforms it, and reflects upon it.
The object of our inquiry are two phenomena placed at the borderline between culture, nature, civilization – the horse and its mechanical form, that made him redundant: the train. These phenomena, their transformations, their associations with the categories of power, language, symbol, technique, poetry, and art will be tracked in the “from the Iliad to the Holocaust” period. In the first part of the course, we will focus on the presence of the horse in the cultural history of the West. The second part will be dedicated to the birth of the train and its impact on the democratization of modern societies and on the Holocaust. In the third part we will shift our attention to the “saddle time”, that is, to the Enlightenment era, when the transition from the culture of horse to the culture of the machine occurred, at first in the realm of science, theory, and art, and afterwards, during the industrial and political revolutions, in the realm of the social and political life. The causes of this transition, just as its positive and negative effects, are to be find in the texts of culture.
Type of course
Prerequisites (description)
Course coordinators
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Learning outcomes
K_W05, K_W06, K_U02, K_U05, K_K09, K_K03
K_W01, KW_06, K_W07, K_W08, K_U01, K_U02, K_U03, K_U05, K_06, K_U10, K_K03, K_K04
K_W04, K_W05, K_W06, K_W07, K_U01, K_U02, K_U03, K_U05
K_U05, K_U06, K_K03, K_K04
Assessment criteria
The main requirement consists of:
a) attendance (10% of the final grade);
b) preparation for the lessons (10% of the final grade);
c) involvement (20% of the final grade);
d) exam (60% of the final grade).
The exam consists of oral presentation of the analysis and interpretation of a chosen feature of the cultural history of the horse or train.
The teacher has to priorly agree upon the topic and the bibliography of the presentation.
The assessment criteria of the oral presentation are:
a) the relation of the presentation to the general topic of the course
b) independence, insightfulness, and the interdisciplinary character
c) the use of bibliography
d) the structure of the presentation (logic, transparency, sense)
Bibliography
Źródła
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Opracowania
Sydney Anglo, Machiavelli - The First Century: Studies in Enthusiasm, Hostility, and Irrelevance, Oxford UP, Oxford 2005.
David W. Anthony, The Horse, the Wheel, and Language. How Bronze-Age Riders from the Euroasian Steppes shaped the Modern World, Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford 2007.
Alessandro Biral, Storia e critica della filosofia politica moderna, Milano 1999.
Alessandro Biral, La società senza governo. Lezioni sulla Rivoluzione Francese. Volume primo – 1984-85, Saonara 2009.
David Brandon, Alan Brooke, The Railway Haters. Opposition to Railways from the 19th to 21st Centuries, Pen & Sword Transport, Yorkshire-Philadelphia 2019.
Ernst Cassirer, Filozofia Oświecenia, Warszawa 2010.
Michael Chrimes (pod red.), The Civil Engineering of Canals and Railways before 1850, Routledge, London 1998.
Francis M. Cornford, Principium Sapientiae. A study of the origins of Greek philosophical thought, Cambridge UP, Cambridge 1952.
Pierre Courcelle, Connais-toi toi-même. De Socrate à Saint-Bernard, Paris 1974-1975.
Peter Edwards, The Horse Trade of Tudor and Stuart England, Cambridge UP, Cambridge 1988.
Anthony Dent, The Horse through Fifty Centuries of Civilization, Phaidon, London 1974.
Peter Edwards, Karl A.E. Enenkel, Elspeth Grahamn (pod red.), The Horse as Cultural Icon. The Real and the Symbolic Horse in the Early Modern World, Brill, Leiden 2012.
Michel Foucault, Hermeneutyka podmiotu. Wykłady z Collège de France 1981/1982, Warszawa 2012.
Michel Foucault, L’origine de l’herméneutique de soi, Vrin, Paris 2013.
Hans-Georg Gadamer, Prawda i metoda, Warszawa 1979.
James B. Hume, John N. Thacker, R. Michael Wilson, Wells, Fargo & Co. Stagecoach and Train Robberies, 1870-1884, McFarland, Jefferson, NC-London 2010.
Friedrich Georg Junger, Perfekcja techniki, Warszawa 2016.
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Francisco LaRubia-Prado, The Horse in Literature and Film. Uncovering a Transcultural Paradigm, Lexington Books, Lanham 2017.
Walter Liedtke, Royal Horse and Rider: Painting, Sculpture, and Horsemanship 1500-1800, Abrais Books 1989.
Albert B. Lord, Pieśniarz i jego opowieść, Warszawa 2010.
Clay McShane, Joel A. Tarr, The Horse in the City. Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century, The John Hopkins UP, Baltimore 2007.
Allen Meek, Biopolitical Media. Catastrophe, Immunity and Bare Life, Routledge, London 2016.
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Katherine C. Mooney, Race Horse Men. How Slavery and Freedom were made at the Racetrack, Harvard UP, Cambridge, Mass.-London 2014.
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Patrick O’Brien (pod red.), Railways and the Economic Development of Western Europe, 1830-1914, Macmillan/St Anthony’s College, Oxford 1983.
T.G. Otte, Keith Neilson (pod red.), Railways and International Politics. Paths of Empire, 1848-1945, Routledge, London 2012.
Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation. The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time, Beacon Press, Boston 2001.
Edwin Pratt, The Rise of Rail-Power in War and Conquest, Philadelphia 1916.
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Paolo Prodi, Il sacramento del potere. Il giuramento politico nella storia costituzionale dell’Occidente, il Mulino, Bologna 1992.
Karen Raber i Treva J. Tucker (pod red.), The Culture of Horse. Status, Discipline, and Identity in the Early Modern World, Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2005.
Karen Raber, ‘Reasonable Creatures’: William Cavendish and the Art of Dressage, [w:] Renaissance Culture and the Everyday, pod red. Patricia Fumerton, Simon Hunt, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 1999, s. 42–66.
Ulrich Raulff, Farewell to the Horse. The Final Century of Our Relationship, Penguin, London 2017.
Karl Reinhardt, Platons Mythen, Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, Gottingen 1989.
Lion T.C. Rolt, George and Robert Stephenson: The Railway Revolution, Penguin, London 1960.
Anastasija Ropa, Timothy Dawson (pod red.), The Horse in Premodern European Culture, DeGruyter, Berlin-New York 2020.
F.M.L. Thompson, Horses in European Economic History: a Preliminary Canter, Reading University, Reading 1983.
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Jack Simmons, Gordon Biddle, The Oxford Companion to British Railway History from 1603 to the 1990s, Oxford UP, Oxford 1997.
Bruno Snell, Odkrycie ducha, Warszawa 2009.
Wojciech Tomasik, Pociąg do nowoczesności. Szkice kolejowe. Warszawa 2014.
James Van Horn Melton, The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe, Cambridge UP, Cambridge 2004.
Anacleto Verrecchia, La catastrofe di Nietzsche a Torino, Einaudi, Turyn 1997.
Carolyn Willekes, The Horse in the Ancient World. From Bucephalus to Hippodrome, I.B. Tauris, London-New York 2016.
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