General information

Course type AMUPIE
Module title Philosophy and Culture
Language English
Module lecturer Prof. UAM dr hab. Sławomir Sztajer
Lecturer's email sztajers@amu.edu.pl
Lecturer position
Faculty Faculty of Anthropology and Cultural Studies
Semester 2025/2026 (winter)
Duration 30
ECTS 4
USOS code 20-S2KLka01-P04424

Timetable

To be announced. 

Module aim (aims)

The aim of the course is to introduce students to the issues related to the relationship between the history of ideas (including philosophical doctrines) and the history of culture consisting of events either inspired by these ideas or being the cause (inspiration) for their creators.

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)

Syllabus

Key concepts for the philosophy of culture

Premodern philosophy and culture

Philosophy of the Enlightenment (D. Hume, Ch. L. Montesquieu, J-J. Rousseau, I. Kant);

Philosophy at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries (K. Marx, F. Nietzsche, S. Freud);

Contemporary philosophy (phenomenology, existentialism, postmodernism, performance studies);

Znaniecki - culture as a world of heterogeneous values;

Psychoanalysis as a theory of culture (S. Freud, J. Lacan, G. Deleuze, F. Guattari, S. Žižek);

Contemporary hermeneutics (H.-G. Gadamer, G. Vattimo, St. Fish etc.);

Poznan methodological school.

Reading list

  1. B. Russell, A History of Western Philosophy. Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1972
  2. Journal of Applied Cultural Studies. The Institute of Cultural Studies UAM Poznań vol.1-4
  3. the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; https://plato.sydney.edu.au/index.html
  4. J. G. Fichte, Addresses to the German Nation, Cambridge University Press 2009
  5. J. McKenzie, Perform Or Else: From Discipline to Performance. Routledge, 2001
  6. V. Turner, The Ritual Process. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press 1969
  7. R. Schechner, Performance Studies. An Introduction. Routledge, London and New York 2002
  8. J. Habermas, Modernity: An Unfinished Project. Ed. In Craig J. Calhoun, Blackwell 2007
  9. R. Rorty, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989
  10. P. Rotengruber, J. Tyszka (eds.), Cultural Course Correction of Back to the Past. Kontekst Publishing House, Poznań 2021
  11. P. Rotengruber, J. Tyszka (eds.), In the Maze of Culture. Kontekst Publishing House, Poznań 2021