- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
The Age of Ideologies: Europe 1789-1917 2900-MK1-WIE-OG
1. French Revolution as a traumatic experience.
2. The founding fathers of conservatism: Edmund Burke and Joseph de Maistre.
3. The ideological significance of the Napoleonic period.
4. Liberalism: Jeremy Bentham and Benjamin Constant.
5. The origins of nationalism: Johann Gottlieb Fichte.
6. The Springtime of the Peoples: political conflicts and ideological controversies.
7. Otto von Bismarck, Benjamin Disraeli and a transformation of conservatism.
8. John Stuart Mill and the dilemmas of liberalism.
9. „Utopians”: Saint-Simon, Fourier, Owen.
10. Karl Marx: socialism as emancipation and as science.
11. Marxism: orthodoxy and heresy.
12. Nationalism, racism and „the crisis of European culture”.
13. Leninism.
14. Bolsheviks and the Russian Revolutions.
15. The First World War as a traumatic experience.
Type of course
elective courses
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
Students should improve their knowledge of 19th-century European culture, identify ideological conditions of politics and analyse sociocultural conditions of ideology.
Bibliography
J. Jedlicki, A Degenerate World, Rankfurt am Main 2016;
L. Kołakowski, Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth, and Dissolution, Oxford 1978;
G. L. Mosse, The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich, New York 1964.
Additional information
Information on level of this course, year of study and semester when the course unit is delivered, types and amount of class hours - can be found in course structure diagrams of apropriate study programmes. This course is related to the following study programmes:
- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
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