ITB 020 - Formations of Modernity

Course Objectives

The aims of the course are to introduce the experience of modernity that reveals today's world with the industrial revolution, scientific revolution, modern state, democracy and modern urbanization, to understand the basic processes of modernity and to explain the conflict areas inherent in modernity. The forms of modernity in different geographies will be discussed and the criticisms of modernity will be evaluated with its basic aspects.

Course Description

In the course of the formations of modernity, the basic issues that reveal and develop modernity will be discussed. Basic concepts such as freedom, individual, society, class, status, public sphere, bourgeoisie, capital, culture and labor will be introduced.