The objective of this course is for students to understand the term European, in order to be introduced to the diachronic representation of the historical and intellectual changes which formed the physiognomy of Europe from the end of the Middle Ages to 20th century.
The course contents:
a) Definition of the term European.
b) Representation of the periods of the European Civilization from the end of the Middle Ages to 20th century.
c) Analysis of the fundamental characteristics of each period:
- The anthropocentric view of the world, the renewal of thinking and arts in the Renaissance.
- Renaissance and Antiquity.
- The philosophic foundations of the intellectual revolution in the 17th and 18th century. The European Enlightenment.
- The classicism in arts and literature.
- The industrial revolution and its consequences for the formation of the ideology of the 19th century.
- French and English liberalism.
- The romanticism movement.
- The modernism and the beginnings of contemporary Europe.