Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Contemporary Thought
Other languages of instruction: Catalan, English
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Introduction
The course presents the study of man as a person with the aim of inviting students to reflect on their own condition and existential meaning, guided by the great authors in the history of thought. In this way, it is hoped that students will be able to understand the meaning of personal dignity and begin a path of integration into their own lives and their own science.
Pre-course requirements
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Objectives
Syllabus
1. The prelude: Ancien Régime and Enlightenment.
2. The foundations: Classical political liberalism.
3. The deployment of freedom: Economic and social liberalism.
4. Romantic passion: Keys to the romantic movement.
5. The meaning and transformation of history: From Hegel to Marx.
6. The conquest of equality: Social democracy and Eurocommunism.
7. The Triumph of Experimental Science: Evolution of Science and Positivism.
8. The philosophers of suspicion: Nietzsche, Freud and the transmutation of values.
9. The crisis of Modernity: War, artistic avant-garde and totalitarian temptation.
10. The existentialist turn: anguish and meaning of human life.
11. The personalist proposal: the notion of the person as a way out of contemporary labyrinths.
12. Contemporary religious thought: twentieth-century Catholic theology and the Second Vatican Council.
13. The City and Utopia: Urbanism, Architecture and Political-Social Models.
14. The feminine revolution: the multiple faces of feminism.
15. Social criticism and postmodern earthquake: the Frankfurt School, the end of grand narratives, decolonization and the woke movement.
16. The New Conservatism: Conservative Thought in the Twentieth Century.
17. The ecological perspective: The currents of environmentalism.
18. Thinking about the digital revolution: from Bauman to Byung-Chul Han.
19. A new humanity?: The dilemmas of transhumanism.
20. The paradigm of care: a social and political alternative.