Lehrende/r: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Axel Schäfer
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30
Anmeldegruppe: GS I AS
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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: This course examines selected traditions of American social thought and explores their relationships to social movements in the United States. Its aim is twofold. First, it is designed to introduce you to the field of intellectual history in the broader context of developments in American arts and letters. Second, it encourages you to explore the connections between social thought and social action. Using both primary and secondary sources we will examine issues such as the tension between advocating reform and calling for revolution; the problem of retaining ideological purity as opposed to working through existing institutions; the question of using violence; and the challenges of mobilization and leadership. Ideas and movements to be discussed range from pragmatism to neoconservatism.
Inhalt: INDICATIVE STUDY PROGRAM Week 1: Introduction Week 2: The Challenges of Twentieth-Century Intellectual History Week 3: Religious and Secular Thought in Post-Civil War Social Reform Week 4: No class (public holiday) Week 5: Social Thought in the Progressive Era Week 6: World War I and Cultural Modernism in the 1920s Week 7: No Class (public holiday) Week 8: Social Thought and Social Criticism during the Great Depression Week 9: Totalitarianism and the Cold War in American Thought Week 10: Liberalism and the Sociological Imagination in the 1950s and 60s Week 11: Race and Democracy in Post-War Social Thought Week 12 : The New Left and the Consciousness Revolution Week 13: Multiculturalism, Postmodernity, and Neoconservatism Week 14: Conclusion and Outlook
Empfohlene Literatur: The course textbook is David A Hollinger and Charles Capper, eds., The American Intellectual Tradition, Vol. 2, Sixth Edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011). Unless stated otherwise, all assigned weekly readings can be found in this book.
