HIST3400 Modern European Intellectual History: Ideas and Society

This course examines the relationship between ideas and social changes in modern Europe. It will also explore the impact of modern European thoughts on contemporary culture in a cross-cultural perspective.

Teaching Plan for online and for possible in person classes

My goals for fall semester 2020 are: to create possibilities for student participation and interaction; and to put in place an approach that will smooth and transition(s) between on-line and face-to-face teaching.

In order to achieve this, I am hoping to take the following steps:

-There will be a participation element to this course, but that participation will be via an on-line discussion board. In the event that face-to-face teaching resumes, the discussion board will still be a part of the course, though students would then be able to supplement their participation grades by contributing to in-class discussions.

-I am planning on teaching all of the classes in the classroom while using zoom to make them accessible on-line. (Note that I say “planning” because I have never done this, and do not know what exactly this will entail. But, that’s the plan). By teaching in the classroom even when there are no students in attendance, and by making them available on zoom if they are face-to-face, I am hoping that this will make any transitions smoother.

Week 1: From Traditional Europe to Enlightenment Europe

Week 2: Europe and slavery

Texts: The Encylopedie entries on Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Negroes [note: do not use the term “negro” when speaking]

Links: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=did;cc=did;rgn=main;view=text;idno=did2222.0000.114

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=did;cc=did;rgn=main;view=text;idno=did2222.0000.667
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/did/did2222.0000.028/–negroes?rgn=main;view=fulltext;q1=slavery

Week 3: Europe’s Internal Others

Texts: Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women (Selections); Zalkid-Hourwitz, Vindication of the Jews

Links: http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3420/pg3420-images.html – introduction, chapters 1 & 4

https://revolution.chnm.org/exhibits/show/liberty–equality–fraternity/item/573

Week 4: Post-Revolution Europe: proletariats and liberals

Texts: Blake, London, Jerusalem; Mill, On Liberty

Links: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Blake_London.jpg

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54684/jerusalem-and-did-those-feet-in-ancient-time
https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/mill/liberty.pdf – Intro, chapters 2 & 4

Week 5: Darwin and the British Empire

Text: Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle

Link: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/944/944-h/944-h.htm – Preface, Chapters I V, XVIII, XIX

Week 6: Socialism and Communism

Text: Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto; Engels, The Principles of Communism
Links: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm

Week 7: Nationalism and Colonialism
Text: Ernest Renan, The Intellectual and Moral Reform of France
Link:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/16Fhg5Dw9lGtsRT8ia3cO4cNoYcBreUR6/view?usp=sharing

Week 8: Freud

Text: Sigmund Freud, Introductory Lectures
Link: https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.273302/2015.273302.Introductory-Lectures_djvu.txt or https://freudianassociation.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Sigmund_Freud_1920_Introductory.pdf
Chapters 7, 11, 16-20

Week 9: Socialist Revolutions

Texts: Lenin and Luxemburg, selections ( The text for Lenin could be seen on Blackboard)
Links:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1918/russian-revolution/ch05.htm

https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1918/russian-revolution/ch06.htm

https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1918/russian-revolution/ch08.htm

Week 10: Totalitarianism
Text: Hannah Arendt, On the Nature of Totalitarianism: An Essay in Understanding
Link: http://hs.umt.edu/ghr/documents/152ArendtOnTheNatureofTotalitarianismAnEssayinUnderstanding-Copy.pdf

Week 11: Feminism, Existentialism
Text: Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
Link: https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir/2nd-sex/introduction.htm (introduction)

Week 12: Stalinism and Post-Stalinism
Text: Havel, The Power of the Powerless
Link: https://web.archive.org/web/20120107141633/http://www.vaclavhavel.cz/showtrans.php?cat=clanky&val=72_aj_clanky.html&typ=HTML

Week 13: Anticolonialism
Text: Amee Cesaire, Discourse on Colonialism
Link: https://libcom.org/files/zz_aime_cesaire_robin_d.g._kelley_discourse_on_colbook4me.org_.pdf

1. Time : Wednesday 12:30 -13:30 (after each lecture / after add-drop period)

2. On each tutorial, we will read and discuss course reading materials together.

3. No need to form groups. Everything can be done individually.

4. Each student need to choose 1 material and make a 10-minute presentation on that material. After the presentation, write a review on that material no longer than 500 words. (20%)

5. No attendance will be taken. However, students are encouraged to attend as many tutorials as possible. After presentation(s), the remaining time will be discussion. Students are welcome to give comments to presenting student(s) or discuss freely about the topic of each week. (5%)

20% + 5% = 25%

請注意大學有關學術著作誠信的政策和規則，及適用於犯規事例的紀律指引和程序。詳情可瀏覽網址：http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/。

學生遞交作業時，必須連同已簽署的聲明一併提交，表示他們知道有關政策、規則、指引及程序。

• 如屬小組習作，則所有組員均須簽署聲明；所有組員（不論有否簽署聲明及不論有否直接或間接撰寫有問題的內容）均須負上集體責任及受到懲處。
• 如作業以電腦製作、內容以文字為主，並經由大學「維誠」系統 (VeriGuide) 提交者，學生將作業的電子檔案上載到系統後，便會獲得收據，收據上已列明有關聲明。

未有夾附簽署妥當的聲明的作業，老師將不予批閱。

學生只須提交作業的最終版本。

學生將作業或作業的一部份用於超過一個用途（例如：同時符合兩科的要求）而沒有作出聲明會被視為未有聲明重覆使用作業。學生重覆使用其著作的措辭或某一、二句句子很常見，並可以接受，惟重覆使用全部內容則構成問題。在任何情況下，須先獲得相關老師同意方可提交作業。