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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Political Science
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Efraim Podoksik
Coordinator Office Hours:
Thursday, 15:00 - 16:00
Teaching Staff:
Prof. Efraim Podoksik
Course/Module description:
From the Renaissance onwards, if not earlier, individuality is one of the most central issues in European social and political thought. In this course we will examine various European intellectual traditions that deal with the question of individuality.
Course/Module aims:
To outline the history of modern European thought in all its variety by following the development of one of its central notions - that of individuality.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. To recollect the philosophical texts presented during the course.
2. To identify the thinkers and their ideas.
3. To discriminate between different approaches towards the notion of individuality in the history of European thought.
4. To initiate oneself into a peculiar ethos and approach towards 'learning outcomes' in the field of humanities.
Attendance requirements(%):
80%
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Frontal lectures
Course/Module Content:
1 - Introduction
2 - Two theologies of man
3 - Scepticism, friendship, privacy
4 - The individual, contract, and right
5 - Human nature and modern civilisation
6 - Kant
7 - Neo-humanist individuality (1)
8 - Neo-humanist individuality (2)
9 - French liberals and individualism
10 - Utilitarian individuality
11 - British individualist sociology
12 - Hegelianism and individuality
13 - Durkheim
14 - Nietzsche
Required Reading:
2.
a) Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man
b) St. Augustine, The City of God
3.
Michel de Montaigne, Essays
4.
a) Thomas Hobbes, On the Citizen
b) Samuel Pufendorf, On the Duty of Man and Citizen According to Natural Law
5.
a) Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Second Discourse
b) Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Émile
c) Voltaire, The A B C
6.
a) Immanuel Kant, Idea for a Universal History
b) Immanuel Kant, What Is Enlightenment?
7.
Wilhelm von Humboldt, The Limits of the State Action
8.
Friedrich Schleiermacher, Soliloquies
9.
a) Benjamin Constant, The Spirit of Conquest and Usurpation
b) Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
10.
a) Jeremy Bentham, Principles of Morals and Legislation
b) James Mill, Government
c) John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism
11.
a) Henry Sumner Maine, Ancient Law
b) Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Sociology
12.
a) G.W.F. Hegel, Philosophy of Right
b) Bernard Bosanquet, The Philosophical Theory of the State
13.
a) Émile Durkheim, Individualism and the Intellectuals
b) Émile Durkheim, The Division of Labour in Society
14.
Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality
Additional Reading Material:
1. Bellah, Robert N., et al. Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.
2. Coleman, Janet (ed.). The Individual in Political Theory and Practice. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.
3. Dumont, Louis. Essays on Individualism: Modern Ideology in Anthropological Perspective. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
4. Elias, Norbert. The Society of Individuals. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991.
5. Gurevich, Aron. The Origins of European Individualism. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.
6. Izenberg, Gerald. Impossible Individuality: Romanticism, Revolution and the Origins of Modern Selfhood, 1787-1802. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.
7. Lukes, Steven. Individualism. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1973.
8. Oakeshott, Michael. Morality and Politics in Modern Europe: The Harvard Lectures. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
9. Swart, Koenraad W. ‘“Individualism” in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (1826-1860)’, Journal of the History of Ideas, 23(1), 1962, pp. 77-90.
10. Ullmann, Walter. The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1966.
Grading Scheme :
Essay / Project / Final Assignment / Referat 100 %
Additional information:
1) The use of laptops or other electronic devices is not permitted.
2) Cellular phones should be switched off.
3) During the course the teacher may for academic reasons introduce changes into the course programme, including the assignments.
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