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Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (03.01.2024)
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Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (03.01.2024)
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to: · Identify and track movements within the critical tradition in western thought. · Explicate and critically analyze themes regarding ethics, aesthetics and society. · Synthesize and contextualize myriad and sometimes [seemingly] disparate ideas. · Understand how to deconstruct and formulate philosophical arguments. · Conduct sound academic research. · Reflect upon the deeper meaning of texts and how they relate to subjects beyond circumscribed fields. |
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Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (03.01.2024)
Contact: 2quillswriting@gmail.com bdcantre45@gmail.com |
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Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (03.01.2024)
Week I: General Introduction, Discussion on art, ethics, and society. Week II: Kant, “First Section: Analytic of Aesthetic Judgment,” in Critique of Judgment, pp. 35
Week III: Nietzsche, “The Birth of Tragedy,” in The Nietzsche Reader, pp. 42 - 73. Week IV: Marx, “Estranged Labor,” in Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, pp. 28 - 35. Week V: Horkheimer & Adorno, “The Concept of Enlightenment,” in Dialectic of Enlightenment, pp. 1 - 34. Week VI: Horkheimer & Adorno, “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception,” in Dialectic of Enlightenment, pp. 94 - 136. Week VII: Horkeheimer, “Materialism and Metaphysics,” in Critical Theory, pp. 10 - 46. Week VIII: Horkheimer, Eclipse of Reason, pp. 3 - 39. Week IX: Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” in Illuminations: Essays and Reflections, pp. 217 - 251. Week X: Benjamin, Selected Writings, pp. 78 - 81, 217 - 219, 297 - 320. Week XI: Fromm, To Have or To Be, pp. 13 - 54. Week XII: Fromm, Man for Himself, pp. 8 -37. Week XIII: Analysis of a work of art |
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Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (03.01.2024)
Students will be assessed on one academic essay and one oral examination:
The essay, approximately 1,500 words on a topic of the student’s choosing related to any of the themes or texts discussed throughout the course, will be due at mid-term. The project should be a critical enterprise, i.e., it should aim to advance an original, sophisticated argument and not merely offer an exposition of certain texts or ideas. Papers should be formatted according to academic standards specified in the Chicago Manual of Style (CMS). This examination constitutes 40% of the student’s final grade.
The oral examination will be a one-on-one critical discussion with the instructors on themes relevant to the course, approximately 30 minutes in length, scheduled during the final exam period. This examination constitutes 40% of the student’s final grade.
Additionally, a compulsory informal essay approximately one page in length on a variable topic will be due at the beginning of the term. While this exercise will not be graded, no further written work will be accepted until the student has completed this one.
As class discussions are an indispensable component of the course, attendance is important. Reasonable accommodations may be made in exceptional circumstances, but please communicate any foreseeable absences or complications as much in advance as possible. A written or oral makeup assignment will be negotiated on a case-by-case basis. Attendance constitutes 20% of the student’s final grade. Grading Scale (in %) 90 - 100 Pass (First) 80 - 89 Pass (Second) 70 - 79 Pass 0 - 69 Fail |
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Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (03.01.2024)
Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." In Illuminations: Essays and Reflections. Translated by Harry Zohn. Edited by Hannah Arendt. New York: Schocken Books, 1968.
and Michael W. Jennings. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002. Fromm, Erich. Man for Himself. Abingdon: Routledge, 2002.
Horkheimer, Max. "Materialism.and Metaphysics." In Critical Theory: Selected Essays: Max Horkheimer. Translated by Matthew J. O’Connell. NewYork: Continuum, 1972.
Horkheimer, Max, and Theodor W. Adorno. Dialectic of Enlightenment. Translated by Edmund Jephcott. Edited by Gunzelin Schmid Noerr. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Judgment. Translated by James Creed Meredith. Edited by Nicholas Walker. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Marx, Karl. Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. Translated by Martin Milligan. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1959. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/ download/pdf/Economic-Philosophic-Manuscripts-1844.pdf Nietzsche, Friedrich. “The Birth of Tragedy.” In The Nietzsche Reader. Edited by Keith Ansell Pearson and Duncan Large. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. Further Reading A Handbook to Critical Approaches to Literature Fifth Edition. Edited by Wilfred L. Guerin, Earl Labor, Lee Morgan, Jeanne C. Reesman, and John R. Willingham. Oxford: Oxford University press, 2005. Critical Theory and Society: A Reader. Edited by Stephen Eric Bronner and Douglas Kellner. New York: Routledge, 1989. Fromm, Erich. "Psychology of Nationalism (1962)." YouTube. February 22, 2016. Video, 41:49. https://youtu.be/pcX53MuX0ZI?si=QRUjP2o7-vTV5CU8 Habib, M.A.R. A History of Literary Criticism. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Lukács, György. “Kafka or Thomas Mann?” In The Meaning of Contemporary Realism. Translated by John and Necke Mander. London: Merlin Press.
Destruction of Reason. Translated by Peter Palmer. Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1981. Rosen, Michael."Benjamin, Adorno, and the Decline of the Aura." In The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory, edited by Fred Rush, 40-56. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Schmidt, James. "The 'Eclipse of Reason' and the End of the Frankfurt School in America." New German Critique 100, (2007): 47 - 76. The Routledge Critical and Cultural Theory Reader. Edited by Neil Badmington and Julia Thomas. New York: Routledge, 2008. |