2017/18
28151 - Modern European Cultures
Optional
5.3. Syllabus
1. Cultural History. Theorists of Cultural History. A Few Cultural Concepts.
2. Cultural Messages. Popular Culture, and Elite Culture.
3. Everyday Life. Stages of Life. The Body. Sex and Transgressions. Death.
4. The Self and the Other. Europe and Europeans. Racism and Xenophobia.
5. Fear. To Guard and to Punish. Witchcraft.
6. Reading, Readers, Books, and Libraries.
7. The Feast.
8. Religion, Religious Speeches, and Tolerance(s). Sin and Confessional. Paradises and Hells.
9. The World Turned Upside Down: Revolutionaries, Millenarians, and Radicals.
5.4. Course planning and calendar
See the academic calendar of the University of Zaragoza (http://academico.unizar.es/calendario-academico/calendario) and the website of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts (Schedule of classes: https://fyl.unizar.es/horario-de-clases#overlay-context=horario-de-clases; Examination schedule: https://fyl.unizar.es/calendario-de-examenes#overlay-context=)
More information will be provided on the first day of class.