Checking date: 15/05/2024


Course: 2024/2025

Theories of cultural crises
(15414)
Master in Cultural Theory and Critique (Plan: 356 - Estudio: 253)
EPH


Coordinating teacher: ALONSO PUELLES, ANTONIO

Department assigned to the subject: Humanities: Philosophy, Language, Literature Theory Department

Type: Electives
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course:
Semester:




Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
No special requirements.
Objectives
Knowledge of the main theories of the cultural crisis. Ability to define the central problems in contemporary cultural crises. Specifically, the following competencies will be developed: Know the main theories of the cultural crisis. Acquire the conceptual and methodological tools necessary for the study of relevant texts in the analysis of mass culture. To be able to define the central problems in contemporary cultural crises. Know and understand the main methods and fields of work of the disciplines present in the study of the cultural crisis. To be able to critically analyze and judge the debates present in the studies on the subject. Know the relevant bibliography. Be able to employ oral and written methods of study and criticism. Be able to elaborate academic texts, oral and written, related to the subject.
Skills and learning outcomes
Description of contents: programme
The course addresses the notion of culture in its contemporary condition of crisis both ecological and social. The subject will be how those crises affect the onw dynamics of culture and how utopian thinking can give answers
Learning activities and methodology
Discussion of relevant texts on the contents of the subject. Presentations by the teacher of the general contents and of the texts indicated and discussion with the students to verify their understanding and for the indication of the fields of problems that involve, as well as of the instruments that can be used in it. Oral presentations of the students and debates.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 60
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 40

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Basic Bibliography
  • Blaise Pascal. Discours sur la religion et sur quelques autres sujets. Fayard/Colin. 1992
  • Daniel Arasse. El detalle. Para una historia cercana de la pintura. Abada. 2006
  • Georg Lukács. El alma y las formas. PUV. 2013
  • Georges Didi-Huberman. La pintura encarnada, seguido de «La obra maestra desconocida» de Honoré de Balzac. Pre-Textos. 2006
  • Hugo Friedrich. Montaigne. Galimard. 1968
  • Hugo Friedrich. Montaigne. Galimard. 1968
  • José Luis Pardo. Nunca fue tan hermosa la basura. Galaxia Gutenberg. 2010
  • Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe & Jean-Luc Nancy. El absoluto literario. Teoría de la literatura del romanticismo alemán,. Eterna Cadencia. 2012

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.