1. The Shock of the New Introductory Lecture

2. Course Introduction Organisational Matters Organisational Matters General Survey General Survey

3. Organisation Seminar Groups (allocation) & Timing Seminar Groups (allocation) & Timing Module Description (Handout) Module Description (Handout) “Set Texts” (Handout) “Set Texts” (Handout) Assessment (Handout) Assessment (Handout) Schedule (sequence of lectures & seminars) Schedule (sequence of lectures & seminars)

4. Survey Theme: The Shock of the New Theme: The Shock of the New Approach (“texts” and “contexts”) Approach (“texts” and “contexts”) Website Website Website

5. Definining the “New”=Modern Until 19thC Until 19thC Ancient >Medieval> Modern Ancient >Medieval> Modern Modernize (17-19thC) Modernize (17-19thC) Contemporary Comparative Sense mostly unfavourable; An alteration requiring justification

6. Modern as Positive 19 th -20 th Centuries A virtual equivalent to “Improved” A virtual equivalent to “Improved” Modernization Modernization Alteration of something old Alteration of something old Something entirely “new” Something entirely “new” Modernity Modernity Modernism (experimental style) Modernism (experimental style)

7. Defining the “Shock” of “the New” In … Politics (e.g. state organisation) Politics (e.g. state organisation) Economics Economics Geistesgeschichte (intellectual developments) Geistesgeschichte (intellectual developments) “Culture” & the “Arts” “Culture” & the “Arts” Technology (utopian & dystopian) Technology (utopian & dystopian) Social Relations (urban life, gender) Social Relations (urban life, gender) Mass Movements Mass Movements

8. Approach Texts & Contexts Texts & Contexts Website Website Website