Historical Distinctiveness of Central Europe 08-FLFA-HDI

Week 1: On Metanarrative in Philosophy of History and its critics (Berlin, Popper, Lyotard, Tucker)

Week 2: On concepts of Central Europe

Week 3: Conceptualizations of developmental distinctiveness of Central Europe (Marian Małowist, Immanuel Wallerstein, Robert Brenner, Jerzy Topolski)

Week 4: Conceptualizations of developmental distinctiveness of Central Europe (Daniel Chirot, Władysław Rusiński, Jeremy Blum, Jan Rutkowski, Benedykt Zientara)

Week 5: Methodological assumptions: On modelling in history
Week 6: Methodological assumptions: The cascade process and theory of chaos

Week 7: Theoretical assumptions: main ideas of Non-Marxian historical materialism

Week 8: Theoretical assumptions: theory of power

Week 9: Theoretical assumptions: on two kinds of economic revolution

Week 10: The peculiarities of social structure of Teutonic Knight Order

Week 11: The development of feudalism in Central Europe

Week 12: The genesis of second serfdom: the main trends in development of Polish society (X-XVII)

Week 13: The genesis of second serfdom: the development of Czech society (X-XVII)

Week 14: The genesis of second serfdom: the development of Hungarian society (X-XVII)

Week 15: The consequences of historical differentiation of Central Europe

Module learning aims

The aim of the course is to familiarize the students with: - the notions of Western, Eastern and Central Europe and the ways of regionalizing of European continent; - The sources of economical dualism (XVI century) as the main factor of differentiation of historical development of the Western and Central Europe; - Overview of explanations of developmental distinctiveness of Central-European societies - The methodological assumptions: the modelling method in historical sciences; - The theoretical assumptions: the main models of non-Marxian historical materialism; - The development of Polish, Czech and Hungarian societies from X to XVIII centuries; - The consequences of second serfdom and economical dualism (economic, politic and cultural) in the further development of Central European societies

Major

Philosophy

Methods of teaching for learning outcomes achievement

lecture and elements of discussion

Course module conducted remotely (e-learning)

Not relevant

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences

Not relevant

Course coordinators

Krzysztof Brzechczyn

Assessment criteria

5 – excellent knowledge and ability of independent analysis, capability of formulation of problems and their solution with an application of notion apparatus
4.5 – very good knowledge although there are some mistakes; an ability of independent analysis, capability of formulation of problems and their solutions;
4.0 – good knowledge; an ability of formulation of problems and their solutions requires some aid
3.5 – satisfactory knowledge and formulation of problems and their solutions requires a control of the lecturer
3.0 – satisfactory knowledge but there are numerous mistakes, the lack of independent analysis and inability of formulation of problems and their solutions
2.0 – unsatisfactory knowledge

Practical placement

not relevant

Additional information

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