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History of Knowledge or History of Science?

Wissensgeschichte oder Wissenschaftsgeschichte?

862-0117-00L 2023W 3 Credits MSC D-GESS

What is knowledge? What is scientific knowledge? How can knowledge be examined historically and epistemologically in order to achieve something like knowledge justice? These questions have recently triggered debates about the contemporary status of knowledge, especially in the context of ideological strategies of manipulation. These questions will be discussed on the basis of relevant texts.

Vodou in the Imaginary of Haitian Writers

Le vodou dans l’imaginaire des écrivains haïtiens

851-0359-00L 2024S 3 Credits DS , MSC D-GESS

Vodou is elusive, fascinating, disturbing and threatening, but it inhabits the soul of the Haitian people. It is said that Haitians are 60% Catholic, 40% Protestant and 100% Vodou. Far from Hollywood clichés, Vodou is a spiritual system and a way of life that permeates the social exchanges, medicine, agriculture, cosmology and, above all, the arts of the Haitian people.