Master
2023/2024
From the Culture of Modernity to the Globalized Contemporaneity: Genealogy of Ideas
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Compulsory course (Culture Studies)
Area of studies:
Cultural Studies
Delivered by:
School of Philosophy and Cultural Studies
Where:
Faculty of Humanities
When:
2 year, 3 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of all HSE University campuses
Instructors:
Фауль Богдан Владимирович
Master’s programme:
Culture Studies
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
28
Course Syllabus
Abstract
In this course we approach philosophy of culture from different angles. We start with classical theories of culture by Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Simmel. Then we proceed to theory of culture in western Marxism, and after that to symbolic interactionism, phenomenology and ethnomethodology. After that we switch to social philosophy of art in modernity. After that we take the macro perspective and dive into the theories of modernization and contemporary sociology of religion. The last lecture is dedicated to a topic of contemporary burnout culture, understood through the conceptualization of philosopher Byung-Chul Han and theologian Josef Pieper.
Learning Objectives
- to acquire theoretical knowledge of philosophic and theoretical paradigms, as well as of cultural edifices of Modern times and contemporaneity
- to be able to make epistemological and institutional analysis of versatile cultural paradigms in the historical perspective.
- to gain the knowledge of broad literature around the theme, including most recent publications
- To be able to trace the provision of enlightenment and its critique in the contemporary critical theory
Expected Learning Outcomes
- To be able to analyze contemporary problems of the art as ideology.
- Know how to study modernity through philosophy
- - Students understand various theoretical approaches to the study of culture.
- Application of theories of modernity and contemporaneity to present cultural politics
- Analyze the relationships between leasure and culture
Course Contents
- Genealogy of Cultural Iconoclasm
- Сrisis of the Institutional Power in the Production of Art History.
- Four Phases in the Cultural Politics of Post-Soviet Russia in Appropriating Contemporaneity.
- Performative turn and subversive methodologies in post-war French philosophy and gender-theory.
- Art as the Institute of Global Contemporaneity. Part 1. From the Lexicons of avant-garde to Institutional totality.Part 2. Bureaucratic genesis of Contemporary Art.
- Between Culture and Techno-Sciences.
- Biopolitical and Clinical Dimension of Contemporary Sociality.
- Apology of Culture vs its Modernist Critique
- The Negative Genealogy of Modernity.
