State, Intelligentsia, and Women’s Writing in the 20th century (604)
ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΑ ΙΩΑΝΝΙΔΟΥ
The course focuses on the response of intellectuals to the political developments of the 20th century with an emphasis on the thought and writings of women who lived and wrote before and after the major events in Europe. Interest will be paid to the way in which female intellectuals approached the Russian revolution, the World War II, and the transition from socialism to capitalism after the fall of the Berlin Wall. What are the most important issues that women intellectuals from all over Europe dealt with? How did they combine their political thinking with reflection on the place of women in the world? How did their thinking diverge from that of their male companions?
The weekly meetings will be based on (a) discussion on the texts which will be given by the tutor through the open e-class platform (b) presentations by the students on subjects which will be arranged with the tutor.
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The course focuses on the response of intellectuals to the political developments of the 20th century with an emphasis on the thought and writings of women who lived and wrote before and after the major events in Europe. Interest will be paid to the way in which female intellectuals approached the Russian revolution, the World War II, and the transition from socialism to capitalism after the fall of the Berlin Wall. What are the most important issues that women intellectuals from all over Europe dealt with? How did they combine their political thinking with reflection on the place of women in the world? How did their thinking diverge from that of their male companions?
The weekly meetings will be based on (a) discussion on the texts which will be given by the tutor through the open e-class platform (b) presentations by the students on subjects which will be arranged with the tutor.
The course focuses on the response of intellectuals to the political developments of the 20th century with an emphasis on the thought and writings of women who lived and wrote before and after the major events in Europe. Interest will be paid to the way in which female intellectuals approached the Russian revolution, the World War II, and the transition from socialism to capitalism after the fall of the Berlin Wall. What are the most important issues that women intellectuals from all over Europe dealt with? How did they combine their political thinking with reflection on the place of women in the world? How did their thinking diverge from that of their male companions?
The weekly meetings will be based on (a) discussion on the texts which will be given by the tutor through the open e-class platform (b) presentations by the students on subjects which will be arranged with the tutor.
Weekly discussions:
Introduction
Socialism and the Russian Revolution.
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Emma Goldman
- Alexandra Kollontai
- Stalinism
- Anna Akhmatova
- Emma Gerstein
- Nadezhda Mandel'shtam
- Nina Berberova
- World War 2 and Nazism
- Hannah Arendt
- Hannah Arendt
- Soviet and post-Soviet era
- Svetlana Alexievich
- Svetlana Alexievich
- Dubravka Ugresic
- Conclusion
