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Instructors: Univ. Prof. Dr. Winfried Herget
Event type:
Lecture
Displayed in timetable as:
05.866.314
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Requirements / organisational issues:
PLEASE NOTE:
THIS IS THE LECTURE AND NOT THE CULTURAL STUDIES IV COURSE: You can only attend one of the two. DO NOT REGISTER FOR BOTH!
Contents:
The lecture course will explore notions of patriotism in the United States and its collateral chauvinism. Ideas to be discussed include civil religion, exceptionalism, liberal consensus, “us vs. them rhetoric”, beneficent imperialism, jingoism, God’s own people, nature’s nation, a sense of mission, the racist turn, the function of the school system to educate citizens.
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