Great Books and Debates

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Great Books and Debates

Full course description

‘Great Books and Debates’ comprises a series of sessions in which key readings of Western culture will be read, thoroughly contextualised, and discussed in depth. You will read (excerpts from) highly influential books, such as Karl Marx’s Capital, Darwin’s Origin of Species, Nietzsche’s Antichrist, and Franz Boas’s The Mind of Primitive Man.

Course objectives

You will

  • recognise the background of some of the major controversies in contemporary Western culture, such as inequality versus social justice, darwinism versus religion, vitalism versus nihilism, Western versus Non-Western views.
  • learn how to analyse, evaluate, and reflect upon the complex arguments featuring in the controversies studied in this course.

Prerequisites

None

MGT3002
Period 3
9 Jan 2023
3 Feb 2023
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ECTS credits: 
6.0
Instruction language: 
English
Coordinator:
Teaching methods: 
PBL, Lecture(s)
Assessment methods: 
Participation, Presentation, Written exam
Keywords: 
Marxism, Darwinism, Religion, Atheism, Imperialism, Racism, Western versus Non-Western World Views