Universität Wien

070085 GR Guided Reading - What became of the history of ideas, 1 (2018W)

"Human rights" in context (Scholasticism to Enlightenment)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Monday 01.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 6 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Monday 08.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 6 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Monday 15.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 6 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Monday 22.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 6 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Monday 29.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 6 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Monday 05.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 6 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Monday 12.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 6 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Monday 19.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 6 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Monday 26.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 6 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Monday 03.12. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 6 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Monday 10.12. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 6 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Monday 07.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 6 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Monday 14.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 6 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Monday 21.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 6 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Monday 28.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 6 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The Rights of the Man and the Citizen, as “declared” for the first time in France, 1789, did not fall from the sky. As much as they (should) inform our values and legal practices to this day, they also are a product of the European and extra-European pre-modern age, of secular and ecclesiastical law, of philosophy and theology: you would not have guessed how fascinating Spanish Scholasticism can be. – The Guided Reading course is conceived according to the respective guidelines (http://www.univie.ac.at/geschichte/lehrerhebung/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GR-Info.pdf). It is designed for those who would like to attend to contemporary sources (from Thomas Aquinas to the Encyclopédie) and their respective contextualization in a well-supervised environment, and in a low-threshold mode. – Please expect to prepare (in a written way) one or more texts every week (to be uploaded on moodle; on the overall requisites: please see the above guidelines). This will be the basis for collective discussion and group work during the course.

Assessment and permitted materials

Each participant will be summing up / preparing in a written way at least one piece of text each week. This (80%) together with active participation in the course discussions will sum up to the final mark.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

To be announced at the beginning of the Course.

Examination topics

Reading list

Renate BLICKLE, Politische Streitkultur in Altbayern. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Grundrechte in der Frühen Neuzeit, hg. von Andrea GRIESEBNER–Michaela HOHKAMP–Claudia ULBRICH (München–Wien 2017).
Dan EDELSTEIN, The Terror of Natural Right. Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution (Chicago 2009).
Samuel MOYN, The Last Utopia. Human Rights in History (Cambridge/Mass–London 2010).
Wolfgang SCHMALE, Archäologie der Grund- und Menschenrechte in der Frühen Neuzeit: ein deutsch-französisches Paradigma (Wien 1997).

Association in the course directory

BA 12: Mittelalter, Neuzeit (4 ECTS); BEd: Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte (4 ECTS); Dipl. LA : Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte (4 ECTS)
MA HPS: M1.2, M1.3

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