Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of French Language and Literature
- Code
- BMI-FRAD-252F
- Title
- 18th Century French Cultural History
- Usual semester
- Spring
- Published semester
- 2025/26/2
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- fr
- Learning outcomes
- A) Knowledge He/she gets to know the ideas on aliens during the 18th century, as it was treated in literary and philosophical works. He/she completes his/her knowledge on the most important authors of the 18th century (Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, etc.). B) Skills Able to easily understand and analyze 18th century texts with their specific vocabulary and stylistic features. Able to place 18th century texts within the framework of the history of French literature and ideas, and to evaluate their characteristics in the light of the works of previous and future ages. C) Attitudes Interested in the literature of the country (France) associated with the language he/she chose to study. Wishes to be acquainted with this literature as thoroughly as possible. D) Autonomy and responsibility Seeks to acquire knowledge beyond the material of the seminar in addition to the obligatory texts, to get to know other works of the authors as well as the works of other authors. When interpreting texts in the history of ideas, he/she treats the sensitivity of a bygone era, which is reflected in his literary works and often differs from ours, with appropriate empathy and objectivity. At the same time, he/she uses the lessons of these works that are still valid today in shaping his own thinking and views.
- Course content
- The East The Americas. The myth of the « noble savage » A new Paradise on Earth : Tahiti Africans and Afro-Americans. Texts on slavery
- Assessment method
- Final grade based a term-paper and an oral exam.
- Bibliography
- CARDINI, Franco, Europe et Islam. Histoire d’un malentendu, Paris, Seuil, 2000. (Chap. XI, « Siècle de fer et siècle des Lumières ») CORNEVIN, Robert et Marianne, La France et les Français outre-mer. De la première croisade à la fin du Second Empire, Paris, Tallandier, 1990. DELON, Michel (dir.), Dictionnaire européen des Lumières, Paris, PUF, 1997. DUCHET, Michèle, Anthropologie et histoire au siècle des Lumières, Paris, Albin Michel, 1995. (1re éd. : Maspero, 1971) HAVARD, Gilles – VIDAL, Cécile, Histoire de l’Amérique française, Paris, Flammarion, coll. « Champs Histoire », 2008. HAZARD, Paul, La crise de la conscience européenne, 1680-1715, Paris, Fayard, 1961. SAID, Edward W., L’orientalisme. L’Orient créé par l’Occident, Paris, Seuil, 2005. (1re éd. : 1980) TODOROV, Tzvetan, La conquête de l’Amérique. La question de l’autre, Paris, Seuil, 1982. TODOROV, Tzvetan, Nous et les autres. La réflexion française sur la diversité humaine, Paris, Seuil, 1989. VIBART, Éric, Tahiti. Naissance d’un paradis au siècle des Lumières, Bruxelles, Éd. Complexes, 1987.