Jews and Muslims in Western imagination - APOV30297

• Anglický název: Jews and Muslims in Western imagination
• Zajišťuje: Ústav politologie (21-UPOL)
• Fakulta: Filozofická fakulta
• Platnost: od 2020
• Semestr: letní
• Body: 2
• E-Kredity: 3
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: letní s.:
• Rozsah, examinace: letní s.:0/2, Z [HT]
• Počet míst: neurčen / neurčen (25)
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: nevyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán; povolen pro zápis po webu
• Garant: prof. Dr. Pavel Barša, M.A., Ph.D.

Anotace

Poslední úprava: Mgr. Ing. Adéla Špínová (11.02.2020)

Course Description
The course is based on the thesis that the way we represent the others say more about us than them. The images of the others help us understand and thus constitute ourselves and make sense of the larger world. Drawing on the books of David Nirenberg and Ivan Kalmar the thesis is exemplified by the Western discourses about the Jews and Muslims. The course covers those periods of Western history in which the major stereotypes about Judaism and Islam were forged: it begins in the times of early Christianity which emerged out of the struggle over the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible and ends up in the age of Enlightenment in which Reason tried to free itself from the tutelage of Revelation. The course will show changes but also recurrent patterns in the imagination of the two important “Others of Europe” across several historical eras.

Podmínky zakončení předmětu

Poslední úprava: Mgr. Ing. Adéla Špínová (11.02.2020)

Requirements

Participation in class discussions, one oral presentation of readings and final written examination.

Literatura

Poslední úprava: Mgr. Ing. Adéla Špínová (11.02.2020)

1)               Introduction. David Nirenberg, Anti-Judaism. The Western Tradition, W.W. Norton & Company, New York 2013, pp. 1 – 12.

2)               D. Nirenberg, ibid., Chapter 2, Early Christianity: The Road to Emmaus, The Road to Damascus, pp. 48 – 66.

3)               D. Nirenberg, ibid., Chapter 2, pp. 66 – 86.

4)               D. Nirenberg, ibid., Chapter 3, The Early Church: Making Sense of the World in Jewish Terms, pp. 106 – 134.

5)               D. Nirenberg, ibid., Chapter 5, The Revenge of the Savior”: Jews and Power in Medieval Europe, pp. 183 – 207.

6)               D. Nirenberg, ibid., Chapter 6, The Extinction of Spain’s Jews and the Birth of Its Inquisition, pp. 217 – 237

7)               Ivan Kalmar, Early Orientalism. Imagined Islam and the notion of sublime power, Routledge, London 2012, Introduction, Introduction: the Lord: God, King, Father, pp.  1 – 8; Chapter 1, The Obscene father: Allah, Jehovah, and the oriental despot, pp. 9 – 17.

8)               I. Kalmar, ibid., Chapter 2, Orientalism: what has and what has not been said, pp. 18 – 29; Chapter 3, Proto-orientalism: ancient and medieval views of the East, pp. 30 – 39.

9)               I. Kalmar, ibid., Chapter 4, The abduction from Asia: the fall of Constantinople and the beginning of modern orientalism, pp. 40 – 43; Chapter 5, The Turks of Prague: the mundane and the sublime, pp. 44 – 55.

10)           I. Kalmar, ibid., Chapter 7, The Sublime East: the soft orientalism of Bishop Lowth, pp. 67 – 87.

11)           I. Kalmar, ibid., Chapter 9, Letter and Spirit, pp. 88 – 93; Chapter 10, The Lord’s command is greater than the Lord, pp. 94 – 105.

12)           I. Kalmar, ibid., Chapter 13, Sex in Paradise: what suicide fighters die for, pp. 120 – 134.

13)           I. Kalmar, ibid., Epilogue, pp. 129 – 134.

14)           Closing Discussion