ECTS:

5

Code:

ΚΥ0303

Cycle / Level:

Undergraduate

Compulsory / Optional:

Compulsory

Teaching Period:

Winter

Course Content:

Lesson I. The basic notions of our course. Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment. Ideology. The birth of the Greek state. Patriarchy. Capitalist mode of production and capitalist world system. Nationalism and national movements. Imperialism and colonialism. Racism and orientalism. Conservatism, liberalism, radicalism.
Lesson IΙ. Capitalist mode of production and capitalist world system.
Lesson IIΙ. The European Ancien Regime and the Ottoman system
Lesson ΙV. Enlightenment: Foyers and Peripheries. The Counter-Enlightenment.
Lesson V. Τhe matrix of the Greek political ideologies. Hellenic-speaking Balkan Enlightenment. The Enlightenment as social criticism.
Lesson VΙ. Romanticism and the crystallization of Greek national ideology.
Lesson VΙΙ. Social history of the nineteenth century in Europe.
Lesson VIII. Ideological lineaments of the nineteenth century.
Lesson IX. The development of conservatism and liberalism.
Lesson IX. Appearence and development of socialism.
Lesson X. Constructing sexual consciousness.
Lesson XI. Constructing and articulating feminist discourses.
Lesson XΙΙ. Aspects of Counter-Revolution
Lesson XΙΙΙ. Recapitulation

On successfully completing this course, students will know the basic conceptualisations of the essentially contested concept of ideology, and why this concept is necessary for understanding our world. Also, tre intellectual currents of Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment, and beyond them the successive appearence, at about the time of the French Revolution, of the three fundamental ideologies of our time -conservatism, liberalism, and radicalism- as well as of their constitutive elements. The characteristics of the Ottoman social formation and the ruptures in the history of the Near East connected to the Greek-speaking Balkan Enlightenment. The main aspects of the social history of the Greek kingdom in the nineteenth century, the heritage of the Orthodox Counter-Enlightenment, as well as the reasons for which nationalism, liberalism, and feminism, but not socialism, spread in the Hellenic culture. Emphasis will be placed on the position of women in the Greek kingdom, and on the early development of the feminist movement. Finally we will discuss the work and the reception of important public intellectuals such as Iossipos Moisiodax, Adamantios Coray and Rigas Feraios, Constantine and Demetrio Paparrigopoulos, Calliroe Parren and the women editors of The Ladies’ Journal published in Athens, Georghios Scliros and Ion Dragoumis.