Philosophy 820:    Syllabus
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Richard Peterson                                                                                                                                                                530 S. Kedzie Hall


                                                             Seminar in Contiental Philosophy

                                       History and the Formation of Individuals

  
Required Texts

Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its Discontents
Robert Tucker, ed., Marx/Engels Reader, 2nd ed.
Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization
Michael Kelly, ed., Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate
Louis Althusser, Lenin and Philosophy
Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy
Slavoj Zizek,   The Sublime Object of Ideology
Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau, and Slavoj Zizek, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality

Course Outline

August 28    Course Introduction     
      
Sept. 4    Freud, Civilization and its Discontents
       Hegel, “Dialectic of Lordship and Bondage”

Sept. 11    Marx, “Preface” to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, pp. 3-6; “Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: Introduction,” pp. 53-65; Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, pp. 70-105;
       “Theses on Feuerbach,” pp. 143-45;
      
Sept. 18    Marx, “The German Ideology: Part I,” pp. 146-200; 
       Capital, from Vol. I,  ch.1, pp. 302-29; ch. 6, 336-43; ch. 7, pp. 344-61; ch 13, pp. 384-88; ch. 14, p. 388-403;  ch 15, 403-17; ch. 32, pp. 436-38; from Vol. III, pp. 439-41; 
       “Manifesto of the Communist Party,” parts I and II, pp. 473-91

Sept. 25    Marcuse, Eros and Civilization, part I

Oct. 2        Marcuse, Eros and Civilization, part II, “Epilogue”
       Foucault, “Two Lectures” (in Critique and Power)


Oct. 9        Habermas, “The Critique of Reason as an Unmasking of the Human Sciences: Michel Foucault”;   “Some questions Concerning the Theory of Power: Foucault Again”

Oct. 16    Foucault, “Critical Theory/Intellectual History”; “The Art of Telling the Truth”;
       Habermas, “Taking Aim at the Heart of the Present: On Foucault’s Lecture on Kant’s What is Enlightenment?”

Oct. 23    Althusser, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” and “Freud and Lacan” (from Lenin and Philosophy)

Oct. 30    Laclau and Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, parts one and two

Nov. 6        Laclau and Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, parts three and four

Nov. 13    Zizek, The Sublime Object of Ideology, parts one and two
      
Nov. 20    Zizek, The Sublime Object of Ideology, part three
       Butler, Laclau, and Zizek, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality, pp. 1-135


Nov. 27    Butler, Laclau, and Zizek, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality, pp. 136-262

Dec. 4        Butler, Laclau, and Zizek, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality, pp. 263-329

Course Requirements:   

   Everyone should come to class with some questions or comments on the readings.  I will hand out study questions each week and each member of the seminar should write up a page or so on a couple of these for at least seven sessions of the term.   Of course, I’ll be happy to look at more if you want to do the additional writing.  Everyone will do a short (15-20 minute) oral report on some part of the readings or on a related text we agree would be helpful for the group.  We’ll work out a schedule for these reports after the first couple of sessions.
   The other main requirement is a substantial term paper that makes use of some of our authors and goes into a course problem in depth.  This paper should include a relatively extensive bibliography that indicates the breadth of literature you have found on the topic, but the paper need not survey the literature.  I would like to see a paper proposal and serious outline or summary of problems to be developed by Nov. 6.   Feel free to consult with me about your paper or other course work.

The term paper is due December 11 by 5 pm in the Philosophy Department office, 503 S.Kedzie. 
               Office Hours:     Mondays, 2:15 to 3:30 and Tuesdays, 1:30 to 3:00 or by appointment
512 S. Kedzie Hall
353-9378                                       e-mail:  PetrsnRT@pilot.msu.edu
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Course Web page:  www.msu.edu/course/phl/820/phl820/fall2002/peterson_1/phl820.html

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