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| 0662-2054-01 | To the West: Society, Economy, Science | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| FACULTY OF HUMANITIES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
The course provides a conceptually critical and interdisciplinary examination of the core constituents of the cultural evolution that lead to the revolution of modernity in the West. Modernity is in fact a series of revolutions that gradually began to take place about 500 years ago in every domain of human life, at both the material and intellectual level, and is considered to be the great achievement of the West and its identifying mark as a cultural paradigm.
This second part of the course will examine the development axis of the social constituent (the individual and society, social ties), the economic constituent (commerce and capital market), and the scientific constituent (the domination of nature), and the ways they combine and mutually effect each other in the process of forging the modern cultural identity against the background of the great ideological feuds in the 19th and 20th centuries, the scientific and philosophical breakthrough of the 16th and 17th centuries, the consolidation of the capitalist system, and the emergence of industrial revolution. By scrutinizing the meanings and implications of these developments, we will attempt to produce basic observations regarding the characteristics of Modernity and Modernism, as well as the Post-modernist reactions they induced.
This second part of the course will examine the development axis of the social constituent (the individual and society, social ties), the economic constituent (commerce and capital market), and the scientific constituent (the domination of nature), and the ways they combine and mutually effect each other in the process of forging the modern cultural identity against the background of the great ideological feuds in the 19th and 20th centuries, the scientific and philosophical breakthrough of the 16th and 17th centuries, the consolidation of the capitalist system, and the emergence of industrial revolution. By scrutinizing the meanings and implications of these developments, we will attempt to produce basic observations regarding the characteristics of Modernity and Modernism, as well as the Post-modernist reactions they induced.