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Lecturer(s)
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Fafejta Martin, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Origins of capitalism. Weber: Protestant ethics and the spirit of capitalism. Simmel - money and the metropolis in the modern society. 2. Origins of public and private sphere. Habermas, Sennett. Fraser - subaltern counterpublic. 3. Nationalism. Nationalism and origins of modern state - Gellner. Biological and political model of nation - Finkielkraut. 4. Bureaucracy. Weber - bureaucracy as rational authority. Criticism of bureaucratism ? Merton. 5. Modern power. Foucault - classical and modern power. Panoptikon - the power of discipline and the Norm. Pastoral state. 6. Democracy. Pure or representative? Inglehart: demos or eros? Tyranny of majority (de Tocqueville). 7. Constitutionalism and modern state. The idea of the US Constitution - Madison, Hamilton. The division of power - Montesquieu. The idea of human rights - The Federalist. 8. Totalitarianism and its critics - Nazism. Arendt - totalitarianism and public/private sphere. Bauman: Modernity and Holocaust. 9. Totalitarianism and its critics - communism. Hayek - criticism of planned economy, Havel: The power of powerless. 10. Idea of welfare state. Origins and development of welfare state. Welfare state in ?postmodernity? - Konopásek. New challenges of welfare state - Nicholson. Criticism of welfare state and the Third Way - Giddens. 11. Crisis of modern state. Habermas - crisis of legitimacy. Giddens, Bauman - crisis of nation-state. Beck - from the society of catastrophe to the risk society. Globalisation. 12. Transformation of politics. Micropolitics - Foucault. Social movements - "thanatos" vs. "eros", legislators vs. interpreters - Bauman. Deliberative democracy - Habermas.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
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Learning outcomes
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The goal of the course is to introduce students with the conditions of the development of the modern state and politics, both democratic and totalitarian. The main topics are bureaucracy (Weber's concept and its Merton's and Bauman's criticism), nationalism (comparison of political and biological construction of nation), totalitarianism (fascism, nazism and communism in the work of Arendt, Hayek, Bauman and Havel), public and private sphere (liberal concept of two separate spheres and its feminist criticism), modern power and Foucauldian "micropower", and the current crisis of modern national welfare state and globalization of the world.
To define, describe, explain and interpret basic terms of sociology of politics and to be able to question them. To discuss basic theses of sociology of politics in the context of contemporary politics, to analyse the in this context and to apply them into this context.
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Prerequisites
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No prior requirements.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Oral exam, Written exam, Written exam
Based on taught subject matter - see Content and Literature
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Recommended literature
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ARENDT, H. (1995). Eichmann v Jeruzalémě: zpráva o banalitě zla.. Praha.
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Bauman, Z.:. Globalizace. Praha: Mladá fronta 1999..
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Bauman, Z.:. Modernita a holocaust. Praha: SLON 2003..
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Beck, U.:. Riziková společnost. Praha: SLON 2005..
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Foucault, M.:. Dohlížet a trestat. Praha: Dauphin, 2000..
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HABERMAS, Jürgen. Problémy legitimity v pozdním kapitalismu. Praha, Filosofia 2000..
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Hayek, F. A. (2004). Cesta do otroctví. Barrister & Principal.
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Merton, R.K.:. Studie ze sociologické teorie. Praha: SLON 2007..
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Tocqueville, A. (2000). Demokracie v Americe.. Praha: Academia.
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Weber, M.:. Metodologie, sociologie a politika. Praha: Oikoymenh 1998.
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