The Subversion of Political and Cultural Authority in U.S. Culture - AAALB031A

• Title: The Subversion of Political and Cultural Authority in U.S. Culture
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2019
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: David Lee Robbins, Ph.D.

Annotation

The Subversion of Political and Cultural Authority in U.S. Culture
An examination of the historical and contemporary cultural dynamics that have worked effectively to devalorize
deference and to subvert both political and cultural authority in the U.S. Readings will include selections from
Emerson, Washington, Whitman, Tocqueville, Thoreau, Melville, William James, Henry James, John Dewey,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Benjamin Tucker, Emma Goldman, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich von Hayek, Michel
Foucault, Richard Poirier, Richard Rorty, Thomas Pynchon, Tom Robbins, Malcolm X, Ayn Rand, Robert Nozick,
Noam Chomsky, and Herbert Marcuse.

Last update: Znojemská Helena, Mgr., Ph.D. (21.06.2016)