2022/2023
Интеллектуальные ландшафты: общество и искусство правления
Лучший по критерию «Новизна полученных знаний»
Статус:
Маго-лего
Когда читается:
1 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Преподаватели:
Герцо-Виноградская Анастасия Игоревна
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
3
Контактные часы:
24
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course of the practically oriented seminars aims to introduce students to a range of the political and intellectual concepts, their emergence, evolution and the contemporary usage in political, public and social discussions. The course seeks to highlight the historic and social contexts as well as dynamic changes and multifaceted usage of the concepts in a variety of discourses. The course deals with the so-called "complementary" concepts/ideas such as politeness, taste, the sublime alongside with purely political ones such as monarchy, duty, republicanism. The innovative element of the course includes listening to the authentic audio materials (podcasts) that elucidate the concepts and provide comprehensive view of the historic
setting, social and cultural milieu that generated or adopted and transformed them, seeking
resolution for the pressing challenges of the moment. The course offers the students ample
opportunities for active engagement with the course by encouraging them to produce presentations, organise discussions and analyse the concepts in the contemporary pan-European contexts.
The course comprises 4 lectures and 8 seminars.
Entry requirements: knowledge of the English Language at Upper-Intermediate/B2 level.
Learning Objectives
- To achieve improved overall understanding of the political, economic and social contexts that generated the intellectual concepts;
- To enhance ability of fluent speaking on a range of abstract concepts;
- To enrich the vocabulary that deals with expressing opinions/formulating arguments;
- To enhance the ability to analyse the complex information;
- To enhance listening skills.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Able to analyse the political, social and cultural contexts related to the intellectual ideas; Students are able to comprehend fully complex audio information on abstract subjects (intellectual concepts)
- Able to use intellectual concepts with related academic terms, expressions and notions
- Improve speaking skills to discuss intellectual concepts/social contexts fluently
- Have enhanced vocabulary
- Able to comprehend fully complex information on abstract subjects (intellectual concepts)
Course Contents
- Seminar. The Culture of Politeness, sociability and clubbability in the context of Enlightenments.
- Seminar. The concept of "taste" and its implications for the commercial society.
- Seminar. The nexus of the ideas about virtue and beauty in contemporaneous discussions (the 18th century).
- Lecture. "Luxury, politics and patriotism" in European economic, social and political thought.
- Seminar. Modern contexts: sociability, civility and ethical consumerism.
- Lecture. Sympathy and secularisation.
- Seminar. Community and imagination.
- Seminar: The Sublime.
- Lecture. The Sublime in aesthetic, moral and political contexts.
- Seminar. Sovereignty: brief historical overview of the concept.
- Seminar. Thomas Hobbes's theory of sovereignty.
- Lecture. James Harrington's theory of balanced sovereignty as a response to Thomas Hobbes.
Assessment Elements
- Oral assessmentOral assessment: individual presentations on a range of themes associated with the concepts discussed is worth 15 points.
- Written assessmentWritten assessment: the final essay on history, evolution, various aspects, social practices associated with and the contemporary usage of the relevant concept/s (approximate length 1,000 words) is worth 30 points.
- Written examWritten exam is worth 55 points.
Interim Assessment
- 2022/2023 1st module0.55 * Written exam + 0.3 * Written assessment + 0.15 * Oral assessment
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy / Klosko, G — Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. — 856 с. — ISBN 9780199238804. — URL: https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199238804.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199238804 (дата обращения: 30.08.2019). — Текст : электронный.
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- The Cambridge history of eighteenth-century political thought, , 2006