Culture in its Historical Dimension History, Politics & International Studies Program Spring 2022 Semester - Madrid

This course aims to raise students' awareness of the diachronic aspect of culture. As a historical phenomenon, it is the result of a distillation process in which the intellectual operatives have exercised a selection of those issues that have proved to be appropriate for ideological and political legitimation. By analyzing culture at the service of the dominant, one acquires a critical perception of what appears to constitute an immovable block, that is, culture as the repository of everything worth knowing, disseminating and enjoying. From this perspective, it is possible to understand the reasons why the foundations of culture and its contents are some and not its opposites, or others forgotten. The knowledge of cultural references throughout history contributes to understanding why the awareness that culture has been the repository of legitimisation of the oligarchies generates a reaction of opposition to this formalised and closed baggage, giving rise to the emergence of cultural procedures that are the object of this degree.