Slide 1Slide 2Slide 3Slide 4Slide 5Slide 6Slide 7Slide 8Slide 9Slide 10Slide 11Slide 12Slide 13Slide 14Slide 15Slide 16Slide 17Slide 18Slide 19Slide 20Slide 21Terms March 20, 2013ModernityIndividualismCapitalismThe Challenge of ModernityThe Course of Empire, 1833-36 Liberals & Conservatives Utopianism (ou topos)Shakers, Oneida, MormonsUtopian Socialists: Fourier, Saint-Simon, Blanc GF HegelScientific Socialism: Marx & Engels1848: The Manifestoalienationbourgeoisie, proletariatDarwin & WallaceSocial DarwinismNietzscheModernism…Music: “Work of the Weavers” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwwWKIXVlGQ 2:04“The Collier‘s’ March” 1782 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuBgeGKPGZI 4:34-6:42 sung by Chumbawamba“The Row between the Cages” http://www.randynissen.net/industrial-revolution-songs.html 1:51 sung by E. McCollFilm: Koyaanisqatsi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PirH8PADDgQ 0:53-2:02ModernityoScientific advancesoShedding traditional sources of authorityoSolving ProblemsoProgressoIndividualism oCapitalism………………Meaning: Constant changeThomas Cole, Course of Empire I: The Savage StateCole, CoE II, The Pastoral StateCole CoE III, ConsummationCole, CoE IV, DestructionCole, CoE V, DesolationChallenges of ModernityoProgress – or cyclesoRelentless change oHaste oLoss of religious valuesoThe spread of nihilismoExploitation (of workers, of colonies)oWinners and Losers………Responses?Western Responses to the Challenge of ModernityLiberals: step-by-step progress Conservatives: traditionReligion: Evangelicalism, the Catholic ResponseOR SOLVE EVERYTHING: UtopiaAnswers or new problems?American UtopiasShaker, Mormon & Fourierist UtopiasGaius Gracchus BabeufComte de Ste-SimonLouis Blanc & State SocialismJune Days 1848Karl MarxHegelian dialectic & Marxian dial. mat. Class interest and class conflict as the “engine of history”Young Charles Darwin and Alfred WallaceOlder Darwinand, of course, WallaceBiology and evolutionoNatural Selection oSurvival of the fittestoLeads to new speciesoConfirmed by geneticsoFoundation of modern biologyoApplied to human societies:oSocial DarwinismoEugenicsoWhat is “fit”? Who decides? oIs there a racial destiny to rule or to die off?Stephen Jay Gould (punctuated equilibria)Richard Dawkins (gene-level
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