Lecture and Seminar Programme
| Autumn Term | 2 |
In Search of Human Nature: Why History is So Vital for Our Understanding of What |
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Famous Stories We Tell Ourselves (II): The ‘Scientific Revolution’ |
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Discovering Human Nature? The Case of Sixteenth–Century Anatomy |
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Man Possessed: How to Become Holy or Demoniac in the Early Modern World | |
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Of Monsters and Cannibals: Europeans Encounter the New World ‘Other’ |
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Challenging God’s Power? The ‘Invention’ of a 'Curious' Human Nature in the Seventeenth Century |
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| Spring term | 1 |
Who is 'Man'? The Quest for Human Nature and the ‘Science of Man’ in the Enlightenment |
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The ‘Invention’ of Pornography: Exploring Man’s Sexual Fantasies |
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READING WEEK |
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| 7 | Bringing the Psyche into Focus (I) – an Introduction | |
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‘Penis Envy’, ‘Castration Anxiety’, ‘Oedipus Complex’ and ‘Perversion’: the Invention of an Unconscious Human Nature in 19th-Century Vienna |
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Week 1: NO LECTURE -- VIDEO NIGHT Adam Curtis documentary 'The Century of the Self' (2002) How Freud's theories on the unconscious led to the development of public relations by his nephew Edward Bernays. How human desire came to trump human need and 'the dream' of self-actualisation became a means of achieving economic growth and the political control of populations. Reading: Ewen, Stuart, PR! A Social History of Spin New York, Basic Books, 1996. fantastic book on Bernays! Bernays, Edward L, 'The Engineering of Consent', in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 03/1947, Volume 250, Issue 1 (online library). Bernays, Edward L., Propaganda. The Public Mind in the Making (1928). Reprint 2005. Week 1: Revision of Term I (lecture and seminar) Week 2: Revision of Term II (lecture and seminar) |
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