Reflections on Totalitarianism - YBF400

• Title: Reflections on Totalitarianism
• Guaranteed by: Programme Liberal Arts and Humanities (24-SHVAJ)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2018
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, MC [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (20)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. Milan Hanyš, Ph.D.

Annotation

English

Last update: Mgr. Milan Hanyš, Ph.D. (19.02.2018)

During the seminar, we will read and discuss some of the major texts reflecting the experience of totalitarianism (and post-totalitarianism), particularly the texts of Hannah Arendt (Origins of Totalitarianism; Responsibility under Dictatorship), Václav Havel (Power of the Powerless; An Open Letter to Dr Husák), and Milan Kundera (The Book on Laughter and Forgetting).

Czech

Last update: Mgr. Eva Beranová (15.02.2018)

During the seminar, we will read and discuss some of the major texts reflecting the experience of totalitarianism (and post-totalitarianism), particularly the texts of Hannah Arendt (Origins of Totalitarianism; Responsibility under Dictatorship), Czeslaw Milosz (The Captive Mind) Václav Havel (Power of the Powerless; An Open Letter to Dr Husák).