Poslední úprava: Michael Voříšek (08.02.2023)
Classes' topics:
- Introduction to the course
- Modernization theory in sociology
- National emancipation in the 19th century
- Economic and political emancipation in the 19th and 20th centuries
- Liberal capitalism and its critics
- Marxism and Marxist schisms
- Technocratic approach to modernization
- Totalitarianism and modernity
- Transitions from Communism
- Postmodernity and late capitalism
- Conclusion: modernization of the Czech lands in European context
Course readings
Course readings can be downloaded from the course's Moodle pages (https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=7682).
Recommended further readings:
Agnew, Hugh, The Czechs and the Lands of the Bohemian Crown, Hoover Institution Press 2004.
Pánek, Jaroslav and Oldřich Tůma (eds.), A History of the Czech Lands, Prague: Charles University Press 2009.
Kohák, Erazim, Hearth and Horizon: Culture Identity and Global Humanity in Czech Philosophy, Prague: Filosofia 2013.
Voříšek, Michael, The Reform Generation: 1960s Czechoslovak Sociology From a Comparative Perspective, Prague: Kalich 2012.
Poslední úprava: Michael Voříšek (25.09.2019)
Classes' topics:
- Introduction to the course
- Modernization theory in sociology
- National emancipation in the 19th century
- Economic and political emancipation in the 19th and 20th centuries
- Liberal capitalism and its critics
- Marxism and Marxist schisms
- Technocratic approach to modernization
- Totalitarianism and modernity
- Transitions from Communism
- Postmodernity and late capitalism
- Conclusion: modernization of the Czech lands in European context
Course readings
Course readings can be downloaded from the course's Moodle pages (https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=7682).
Recommended further readings:
Agnew, Hugh, The Czechs and the Lands of the Bohemian Crown, Hoover Institution Press 2004.
Pánek, Jaroslav and Oldřich Tůma (eds.), A History of the Czech Lands, Prague: Charles University Press 2009.
Kohák, Erazim, Hearth and Horizon: Culture Identity and Global Humanity in Czech Philosophy, Prague: Filosofia 2013.
Voříšek, Michael, The Reform Generation: 1960s Czechoslovak Sociology From a Comparative Perspective, Prague: Kalich 2012.