AMER 393 Intellectuals and Public Culture
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This course examines significant figures in American intellectual life and their role in shaping public sphere controversies and debates. It will examine debates on
topics such as slavery, citizenship, women's rights, and the role of education and responsibility in a democracy, in the context of the radical social and economic transformations in American society at the turn of the century. The works of Tocqueville, Turner, H. James, Dewey, Walzer and C. Taylor are studied with the aim of observing the inscriptions of democracy, multiculturalism, tolerance, equality as the regulatory terms of American public culture. Post WWII universalization of these idioms is juxtaposed to the argument that the public sphere is eroding in the US.
Credit units: 3 ECTS Credit units: 6.
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