Course: Nationalism: The Contition of a Democratic Emantipation of a Nation

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Course title Nationalism: The Contition of a Democratic Emantipation of a Nation
Course code KPF/B093
Organizational form of instruction Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Štern Ivan, Ing.
Course content
Topics I: (winter term) 1. Hussitism and reformation as a prologue of the birth of the modern nation (Four Articles of Prague, translations of the Bible into national languages - Christian God understands the Christian language, the emergence of national reformed churches across Europe.) 2. 1848 - civic emancipation is impossible without national emancipation, dialectical unity of both processes (Havlíček Borovský). 3. 1848 - the indivisibility of freedom, not only in civil, but also in the national sense (Engels). 4. 1848 - A critical national defense politics of Slavic lime tree (Palacký, Rieger, Sabina) 5. Manifest of Czech Liberals in 1861 and The National Newspaper 6. Tears of the Czech crown and critical years 1866 and 1867 (Austro-Prussia War, Austro- Hungarian settlement, leaving Czech politicians of Provincial Assembly in the spring 1867) 7. 1890s - decades culminating Czech civic and national emancipation (Czech Progressive Party, Omladina, political stories - Karel Kramář and Alois Rašín) 8. The discord of international proletarian emancipation and national emancipation within social democracy in the late 19th century and Congress in Brno in1899, focused on the question of nationality within Austrian Empire 9. Specifics of Czech anti-Semitism (Neruda, Polenský Hilsner Affair, T.G. Masaryk versus Karel Baxa)

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The target of the first part of the course is to get students acquainted with the birth and development of national community and national identity as a community of free-thinking. The aim of the course is to explain by way on an example that the intention of the national emancipation is like any other human emancipation to achieve man's responsible freedom, and that through national emancipation the path leads to civic and social emancipation.
Learning outcomes: students will acquire the following academic knowledge: - a critical analysis of the development of Czech - German contacts and conflicts on the territory of the Czech Republic - a critical analysis of the national question in Austria (hence in Czechoslovakia) active political movements and their ideas of solutions - before World War I, during the interwar period, in the period after World War II - an overview of the birth and development of ideas of European unity as a way of democratization of Europe and the final ethnic conflict resolution- in the period before World War I, during the interwar period, in the period after World War II
Prerequisites
None.

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Attendance 80%.
Recommended literature
  • Štern, Ivan. Ošidnosti odpovědné svobody I. Ústí nad Labem, 2013.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Social Sciences (Two-Subject Combination) (A14) Category: Philosophy, theology - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Political Science (Two-Subject Combination) (A8) Category: Social sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Social Sciences (A14) Category: Philosophy, theology - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Political Science (Two-Subject Combination) (A14) Category: Social sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Social Sciences (Two-Subject Combination) (A14) Category: Philosophy, theology - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Social Sciences (A14) Category: Philosophy, theology - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Social Sciences (Two-Subject Combination) (A14) Category: Philosophy, theology - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Social Sciences (Two-Subject Combination) (A14) Category: Philosophy, theology - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Social Sciences (A14) Category: Philosophy, theology - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -