Kurzus nemzetközi vendég- és részidős hallgatóknak
- Kar
- Bölcsészettudományi Kar
- Szervezet
- BTK Történeti Intézet
- Kód
- MA-ERA-IHS-L-3
- Cím
- The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and Its Heritage
- Tervezett félév
- Őszi
- Meghirdetve
- 2024/25/1
- ECTS
- 8
- Nyelv
- en
- Oktatás célja
- The course provides students with a comprehensive knowledge of a period without which today’s Central Europe is impossible to understand. The system of political and cultural institutions which characterize today’s Central European states in many ways took shape under the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, and they bear the marks of the Monarchy’s legacy even today. The period, especially the fin de siècle which brought about an unprecedented cultural boom all around the region, had a lasting impact on later traditions of Central European countries. The beginnings of modern literature, music, art, and architecture can unquestionably be associated with the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries in Central Europe. Besides getting familiar with the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy’s political, economic, and social conditions, students will also learn about significant intellectual communities, artists, scholars and politicians – together with their works and networks –, who had a decisive impact on the 20th century in their own fields, not only in Central Europe but also beyond; and whose oeuvres influence public thinking, cultural, scientific, and political traditions to this day. The culture of the fin de siècle is a definitive part of the Central European region’s visual world as well as of its artistic, musical, literary and architectural heritage; during the semester students will become familiarize themselves with all the essentials of that heritage. By completing the course, students will be able to mediate this important part of Central European cultural heritage to the greater public on a high level, working later for public collections, in academia, or in the field of cultural diplomacy. Having become acquainted with the historiography, research methodology and main analytical categories of the field, they will be able to produce up-to-date scholarly works, research papers, conduct applied research and prepare exhibition material for museums or various cultural institutions.
- Tantárgy tartalma
- 1. Introduction: a short history of the Habsburg Monarchy to 1867. The making of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy 2. The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy: political structure, economy, and society. Common elements and territorial differences. 3. The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and its evaluation in 20th-century historical writing. Cental questions, problems and paradigm changes in post-Habsburg historiography 4. Political currents of the Austrian fin de siècle and their legacy 5. Intellectual currents and emblematic figures of fin-de-siècle Vienna. Karl Kraus, Arthur Schnitzler, Otto Weininger 6. Freud, Vienna, and the birth of psychoanalysis 7. Art and architecture in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Historicism, Art Nouveau and Early Modernism. Parallels in music 8. Competing traditions: intellectual centers all around the Monarchy. The case of the German-language literature of Prague 9. „The crisis of the dualist system”: political, social, and cultural tensions in early 20th century Hungary and in other lands 10. „The first Hungarian workshop of sociology”: the journal Twentieth Century and Oscar (Oszkár) Jászi 11. The Galilei Circle and Karl (Károly) Polányi 12. The literary journal Nyugat and Endre Ady. The Sunday Circle and Georg (György) Lukács. The ideology of racial purity; the journal Aim and Lajos Méhelӱ. 13. Summary: The intellectual, political and societal legacy of the turn-of-the-century
- Számonkérés és értékelés
- Students will take a written exam. They must choose and elaborate two out of four essay questions.
- Irodalomjegyzék
- Judson, Pieter M.: The Habsburg Empire: A New History. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016. 1-15. és 218-441. Hanák, Péter: The Garden and the Workshop: Essays on the Cultural History of Vienna and Budapest. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1998. Schorske, Carl E. Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture, New York: Vintage Books, 1981. Sármány-Parsons, Ilona. Viennese Painting at the Turn of the Century. Budapest: Corvina, c1991. Brandstätter, Christian (ed.) Vienna 1900 and the Heroes of Modernism. London: Thames & Hudson, 2006.