HIST3400 歐洲近代思想史：觀念和社會

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.

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://www.gutenberg.org/files/34901/34901-h/34901-h.htm – Intro, chapters 2 & 4

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: Nietzsche & Freud

Texts: Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals, 1:10-13, 16. Link: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/52319/52319-h/52319-h.htm 
Beyond Good and Evil, 2:44; 5:202-203; 9:257, 260. Link: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4363/4363-h/4363-h.htm 

Twilight of the Idols, “Maxims and Missiles”. Link: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/52263/52263-h/52263-h.htm#MAXIMS_AND_MISSILES

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 8: 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: Uploaded on Blackboard

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

The HIST 3400 tutorial will be held on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 12:30 to 14:15, with two sections available: one on Wednesday and one on Thursday. You will be assigned to only one of these two sections. The tutorial will take place over four sessions throughout the semester, and the exact dates and locations will be announced later.

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。