(in Polish) Tożsamości w Europie (do wyboru I)

The content of the subject includes both the characteristics and evolution of the concept of identity (individual and collective), strictly European roots of this structure and its subsequent deconstruction, analysis of significant collective identities relating to racial, class, ethnic, national, religious, gender, etc. similarities. The problem of creating / building a European identity, EU actions in this matter (stimulating territorial identities - e.g. the principle of subsidiarity).

During the course, the following issues will be discussed:

The distinction between subjectivity, self-identity, and social identity; Personality as a cultural product (identity as a construct, the meaning of acculturation); assumptions of this concept; Self-awareness as a modern Western concept arising from science and the "era of reason" (Norbert Elias); The issues of similarity and difference in approaches to the problem of identity.

Essentialism and Anti-Essentialism; The model of mechanical solidarity and the collective consciousness that guides it as a theory of the permanence of collective identity; The anti-essentialist concept of identity plasticity and its anti-universalism

Identity as a project (constructing a coherent narrative - A. Giddens); the importance of linguistic articulation; resources constituting the material for the identity project and different access to them.

Stuart Hall's fragmentary identity; enlightenment subject (Cartesian model of the human person; identity as the "center" - the inner core of the individual); a sociological subject ("I" socialized, "significant others"); postmodern (fragmentary) subject; the decentralized self of the individual.

Five "cracks" in the discourses of modern knowledge that led to the "decentralization" of identity: the Marxist historical subject (Althusser's approach), psychoanalysis and subjectivity, feminism and difference, the theory of the central role of language, the theory of Michel Foucault.

"I" articulated "; partial return to essentialism (Ernesto Laclan), the importance of places of interaction; the modern increase in their number (Anthony Giddens).

The causative activity and politics of identity (in Foucault's "agency", "structuring in Giddens): types of causative activities, choice and determination, originality, innovation and change, strategic essentialism.

Collective identities: ethnicity, race, nation, race ("racialization), various racisms (stereotyping), from racialization to ethnicization, ethnicity and power (Frederic Barth).

Religious identities in contemporary Europe. Secularization, extra-church religiosity (characteristics), possibilities of new identities emerging conditioned by changes: detraditionalization, disidentification, autonomy, little transcendence.

Gender and identity: various feminisms and gender studies; from biological reductionism to full plasticity of biological and cultural sex; sex entities; "Betrayed modern man" - problems of male identity.

Territorial identities in the EU: research on the identification of Basque and Catalan people versus declarations of other Europeans; conditions for the emergence of strong territorial identities (culture, coercive conflict, socioeconomic interaction, political institutions).

Models of European identity: the entity legitimizing the New Europe - demos; principles of European identity (primordialism and the narrative construction of Giddens); constructionism versus substantialism; models of European identity (Delanty); European heritage, universalist post-nationality, European pragmatism.

The obligatory element of the lecture is reading the indicated literature in a foreign language.

the graduate knows and deeply understands the social and cultural problems of contemporary Europe,

the graduate knows and understands the social, economic and cultural changes taking place in Europe,

the graduate is ready to consciously and critically participate in European culture,

the graduate is able to prepare an oral presentation that meets academic standards and undertakes a critical analysis of selected problems in European studies,

the graduate is able to take part in and lead a discussion, using the views of other people and their own.

Teacher's presentations.

Discussion.

Working in groups on selected topics from recommended reading.

Presentations of students from the above groups.

The attendance is compulsory.

The course ends with a written essay on the topic discussed with the teacher.