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Terminated in academic year 2008/2009

Postmodern Philosophy

Type of study -
Language of instruction Czech
Code 711-0106/02
Abbreviation POSTF
Course title Postmodern Philosophy
Credits 2
Coordinating department Department of Social Sciences
Course coordinator prof. Dr. Mgr. Tomáš Hauer

Subject syllabus

Much is said about postmodernity nowodays. Postmodernism has a fundamental
meaning, that the society in which we live is a society of generalized
communication, the society of mass media. Modernity, as the epoch in which
simply being moder became a decisive value in itself, is over. Conception of
postmodernity, has been introduced here with a questions. 1)Play a mass media
a decisive role in birth of postmodernity. 2)Is postmodern society more
transparent or more complex, even chaotic. 3) It is precisely this relative
chaosin which our hopes for emancipation lie?

Literature

Lyotard, J.F.: Postmoderní situace, Praha 1993
Welsch, W.: Naše Postmoderní Moderna, Praha 1994
Bělohradský, V.: Mezi Světy a Mezisvěty, Praha 1997
Derrida, J.: Texty k Dekonsturkci, Bratislava 1993
Za Zrdaklom Moderny, Bratislava 1991

Advised literature

J. Appleby, E. Covington: Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective, Routledge 1996
L. Cahoone: From Modernism to Postmodernism: An Antology, Blackwell Publishers 1996
R. Bogue: Deleuze and Guattari, Routledge 1989