2010 Spring HISTORY 272S-01
Bulletin Course Description Advanced undergraduate and graduate colloquium and research seminar focusing on the cultural milieu of fin-de-si<138>cle and interwar Vienna. Readings in the Austro-Marxists, the Austrian School of Economics, Freud, Kraus, the Logical Positivists, Musil, Popper, and Wittgenstein. Monographs on the Habsburg Empire, Fin-de-si<138>cle culture and technology, Viennese feminism, Austrian socialism, philosophy of science, literature and ethics, and the culture of the Central European émigrés. Instructor: Hacohen
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Title FIN-DE-SIECLE/VIENNA Department HISTORY Course Number 2010 Spring 272S Section Number 01 Primary Instructor Hacohen,Malachi H Prerequisites
Synopsis of course content
An advanced undergraduate and graduate colloquium and seminar focusing on the Habsburg Monarchy and the cultural milieu of fin-de-siecle and interwar Vienna. The brilliant world of the assimilated cosmopolitan Jews, which anished with the Nazis, is the over-arching theme. Readings in Freud, Kraus, the Logical Positivits, Musil, Popper, Wittenstein, the Austro-Marxists, and the Austrian School of Economics. Monographs on the Habsburg Empire, Fin-de-siecle culture, Viennese Jewry, anti-Semitism, feminism, socialism, philosophers, and writers.
Assignments
Approximately 200 pages per-week (less if the material is difficult. We closely read the thinkers and use some historical and interpretive works to help us understand them.
Exams
None
Term Papers
Either one 25 page research paper or two major reviews of weekly readings 12 page each.
Grade to be based on
Paper(s) and class participation
Additional Information
blackboard correspondence and active and informed class-participation encouraged.
AREA: EUR
PRE-1800: No
