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Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Axel Schäfer
Event type:
online: Advanced seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.866.533
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Requirements / organisational issues:
This course examines selected traditions of U.S. social thought and their relationship to social and political movements in the twentieth-century U.S. Using both primary and secondary sources we will examine ideas and movements including pragmatism, cultural modernism, Cold War liberalism, the New Left, and neoconservatism. The course aims to enable you to develop an understanding of the main traditions of critical social thought in the U.S. and their significance for sociopolitical mobilization. On the one hand, we will explore selected thinkers and ideas. On the other hand, we will view them in the context of the profound structural transformations in U.S. politics, society, and culture, including the repercussions of global warfare, the crises and consolidations of consumer capitalism, corporate power, state-building, and the emergence of the U.S. as a world power.
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