The Age of Ideologies: Europe 1789-1917 2900-MK1-WIE-KL
1. French Revolution as a traumatic experience.
2. The founding fathers of conservatism: Edmund Burke and Joseph de Maistre.
3. The ideological significance of the Napoleonic period.
4. Liberalism: Jeremy Bentham and Benjamin Constant.
5. The origins of nationalism: Johann Gottlieb Fichte.
6. The Springtime of the Peoples: political conflicts and ideological controversies.
7. Otto von Bismarck, Benjamin Disraeli and a transformation of conservatism.
8. John Stuart Mill and the dilemmas of liberalism.
9. „Utopians”: Saint-Simon, Fourier, Owen.
10. Karl Marx: socialism as emancipation and as science.
11. Marxism: orthodoxy and heresy.
12. Nationalism, racism and „the crisis of European culture”.
13. Leninism.
14. Bolsheviks and the Russian Revolutions.
15. The First World War as a traumatic experience.
Course coordinators
Type of course
elective courses
Learning outcomes
Students should improve their knowledge of 19th-century European culture, identify ideological conditions of politics and analyse sociocultural conditions of ideology.
Bibliography
J. Jedlicki, A Degenerate World, Rankfurt am Main 2016;
L. Kołakowski, Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth, and Dissolution, Oxford 1978;
G. L. Mosse, The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich, New York 1964.