Vocabulary: indices of advancement, inner zone, outer zone, the Second Industrial Revolution, balance of payments: imports vs. exports, invisible exports, the gold standard, a true global market, free trade, economic nationalism (neo-mercantilism), the limited liability corporation, vertical and horizontal integration, democratization, suffrage, and its limits, the rise of the Labour Party.
- How did indices of advancement and materialism lead Europeans to think themselves superior to the rest of the world?
- In what sense had a true world market been created? Why then did neo-mercantilism, or economic nationalism, rear its head?
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Gerst Audio Clips Only
Gerst Audio Clips Only
(5 minutes: Feel free to skip the first minute)
This is long at 22 minutes. Interesting for those scientifically minded, but totally optional.
II. Week Two: Late Modernity Irrationalism
Vocabulary: early modernity vs. late modernity, irrationalism, nihilism, superman, Nietzsche's conception of God, good vs. bad, good vs. evil, the annihilator, the dancer, and the child, Dostoyevsky's concept of freedom, Bergson's intuitive experience, Sorel's myth of the general strike, Freud's psychoanalysis, the id, the ego, and civilization
- How does Early Modernity differ from Late Modernity? What is the intellectual reaction to the political, economic and technological developments of the day?
Dostoyevsky
Schopenhauer (Optional)
- What does Nietzsche mean when he says that, “God is Dead”? What does he mean when he writes that, “The you is older than the I”? Finally, what does Nietzsche suggest when he says, “Truths are illusions that we have forgotten are illusions”?
- What does Nietzsche mean when he says that Europe must move beyond "good and evil?" How do the three figures of "the annihilator," "the dancer," and "the child" illuminate what Nietzsche means by "the superman?"
Nietzsche: Irrationalism and Christianity
Nietzsche: Superman
- Using the skill of CONTEXTUALIZATION, is Freud a creature of his environment, i.e., 19th century Victorian bourgeoisie society? How did Zweig's youthful contemporaries react to customs and attitudes regarding sex?
Freud
III. Week Three: Sociological Critique of Late Modernity
Vocabulary: the urban-industrial-capitalist society, the meaning/purpose of life, Durkheim's solution to anomie, Pareto's distinction between the elite vs. the masses and the role of propaganda, Le Bon's concept of the crowd, and Weber's concept of "steel cages." (Note to self: why did he pick "steel" for the cages? Return to the top. Get it: Second Industrial Revolution.)
- If tradition and custom have been ruthlessly dissolved by the rapidly developing industrial-urban-capitalist order, what is the impact on individuals and society? How does the "crowd" change the individual? What is the solution to "non-rational" thinking in political life? How can people preserve their individuality in a society that is becoming increasingly regimented?
Durkheim
Le Bon
Weber
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