Účelem kurzu je seznámit posluchače s kulturními dějinami Evropy v
širším historickém, intelektuálním a sociálním kontextu. Důraz bude kladen
na setkávání a střetávání evropské civilizace s jinými kulturními
okruhy.
Course has neither
prerequisite
nor
preclusive
nor
recommended (for your information)
courses...
Course annotation
KHV/KDE1
-IS/STAG
The main aim of the course will be survey, description and analysis of the emergence and development of the Western civilization as a specific social and cultural phenomenon in a broader historical, political, religious, economical, intellectual and environmental context. Special attention will be paid to the period of Antiquity, Middle Ages and Early Modern Age. The attention will be paid to the works of the great thinkers having tried to encapsulate the understanding of special European cultural identity and creativity (Oswald Spengler, Arnold Toynbee, William McNeill, Jacques Barzun, Christopher Dawson, Fernand Braudel).