Capitalism and Other Beasts 3700-ISSC-COB23-OG
Konwersatorium (KON) Semestr zimowy 2023/24

- History, long duration, development and progress.

- The issue of East and West.

- Theory of world-systems.

- The emergence of one, interconnected world-system in the thirteenth century and the of pre-European expansions.

- The origins of European civilization. Expansion phase.

- A new form of European civilization (15th-16th c.), The emergence of capitalism.

- The success and failure of European civilization. Enlightenment and science.

- The nineteenth century. Revolutions as a process of civilizational change.

- Colonialism. The new form of interpersonal relations in the conditions of domination. Colonial heritage.

- Late-modernity capitalism.

- Cultures of capitalism. Case studies.

- Alternatives to capitalism.

Individual topics can be discussed on more than one class.

Class discussions, lecturing, student presentations