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Lecturer(s)
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Kleprlík Michal, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Cultural Studies - consise history and purpose of study, terms Dichotomy between Culture and Civilization (S. T. Coleridge) Cultura animi: traditional concept of culture and its limits (M. Arnold, T. S. Eliot, E. Pound) Kulturpessimismus; the culture industry: enlightenment as mass deception? (T. Adorno, M. Horkheimer) Great Tradition versus Culture Is Ordinary (F. R. Leavis, R. Williams) In a Post-culture (G. Steiner) Kennedy versus Nixon: Understanding Media (M. McLuhan, S. Hall) The Jeaning of America: Understanding Popular Culture (J. Fiske, H. Jenkins, F. Jameson) Culture in a Liquid Modern World: cultural tendencies in the 21st century (cultural pluralism, multiculturalism, culture wars, etc.)
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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- Independent critical reading
- 70 hours per semester
- Contact teaching
- 26 hours per semester
- Preparation for an exam
- 25 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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Few concepts have undergone such a great shift in meaning and significance over the course of several centuries as the notion of culture. Within the modern and post-modern framework, we follow the shift from the cultivation and education of the human spirit, through its elevation and immortalization, to the connection of culture and the market, for which the term culture industry has become common. The aim of the course, which builds on the compulsory subjects of British and American Cultural Studies taught within the Bachelor type of study, is to follow and evaluate the transformations of the notion of culture in modern Western world. In particular, attention is paid to the "traditional" understanding of the concept of culture in the British and American contexts and its reaction to mass culture/society, popular culture, post-culture. Students will be acquainted with the ideas of fundamental thinkers, such as S. T. Coleridge, M. Arnold, J. H. Newman, J. Ruskin, J. S. Mill, T. S. Eliot, I. Babbitt, E. Pound, L. Trilling, R. Williams, G. Steiner, H. Broch, F. R. Leavis, Ch. Dawson, R. Scruton, Z. Bauman, S. Sontag, Q. D. Leavis, M. McLuhan, F. Jameson, J. Fiske, S. Hall, B. Anderson etc.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
1. Close reading of assigned texts, 2. In-class essay, 3. Test.
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Recommended literature
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Adorno, Theodor; Horkheimer, Max. Dialektik der Aufklärung. Fisher, 1988.
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Arnold, Matthew. Culture and Anarchy. Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Bauman, Zygmunt. Culture in a Liquid Modern World. Polity, 2011.
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De Man, Paul. Allegories of Reading. Yale University Press, 1982.
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Eliot, T. S. Christianity and Culture. Mariner Books, 2014.
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Eliot, T. S. Notes Towards the Definition of Culture. Gardners books, 1972.
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Goodhart, David. The Road to Somewhere: The New Tribes Shaping British Politicss. Penguin, 2017.
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Guziur, Jakub. Slepnoucí Apollon, kastrovaný Dionysos: pohledy na kulturu v moderní době. Pulchra, 2010.
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Kallen, Horace Meyer. Culture and Democracy in the United States. Transaction Publishers, 1989.
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McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media. Taylor and Francis, 2006.
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Ordine, Nuccio. The Usefulness of the Useless. Paul Dry Books, 2017.
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Patočka, Jan. Kacířské eseje o filosofii dějin. OYKOIMENH, 2007.
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Pound, Ezra. Guide to Kulchur. Peter Owen, 1978.
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Riemen, Rob. To Fight Against This Age: On Fascism and Humanism. W. W. Norton and Company, 2018.
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Singer, Peter. Practical Ethics. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Sontag, Susan. A Susan Sontag Reader. Farrar: Straus and Giroux, 1982.
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Steiner, George. In Bluebeard's castle: Some Notes towards the Redefinition of Culture. Faber and Faber, 1971.
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Steiner, George. Language and Silence. Yale University Press, 1998.
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Steiner, George. My Unwritten Books. New Directions, 2013.
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Steiner, George. Real Presences. University of Chicago Press, 1991.
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Williams, Raymond. The Raymond Williams Reader. John Wiley and Sons, 2001.
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