2017 - 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
0621-7043-01 | Beyond Reason: Baroque. Counter-Enlightenment and Romanticism | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FACULTY OF HUMANITIES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The main aim of the seminar is to examine critically three major periods or movements in early modern European history. Common to them all are the conservative, even reactionary, opposition to the general historical process of progress by means of scientific rationality and technological innovations. By comparing the three cultures we shall thus try to understand the very notion and historical manifestations of "reactionary revolution" in history.