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Fall '00 Key Concepts | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Texts
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| Key Concepts |
| Part I: Classical Texts, Modern Contexts | ||
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I: Aug 28-30
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| 1 | Introduction to Karl Marx: Culture and Society | |
| 2 | From Philosophy to the Materiality of Institutions and Economics | |
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II: Sept 4-6
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| 3 | From the Division of Labour to Philosophy | |
| 4 | Cinematic Interlude and Quiz 1 | |
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Week III: Sept 11-13
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"The
Grundrisse" |
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| 5 | Marx, Marxism, Marxisms : On Thoery and Practice | |
| 6 | Theories of History and Theory of Intellectuals | |
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IV: Sep 18-20
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| R | Reading:
From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology (1910‑20) "Science as Vocation" "Chinese Literati" "Structures of Power" "The Social Psychology of the World Religions" |
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| 7 | Intellectuals
and Politics |
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| 8 | Religion,
and Geography |
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V: Sept 25-27
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"Class, Status, Party" |
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| 9 | Modernity, Christianity, and Protestantism | |
| 10 | Capitalism and the World System | |
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Week VI: Oct 2-4
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| R | Reading:
Durkheim, Handouts-- Webpage (1910-20) "The Study of Philosophy" "The Modern Prince" “Civil and Political Society” “The Southern Question” |
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| 11 | Weber, Durkheim, Gramsci: On Religion and Modernity | |
| 12 | Sociology, Marxism, and Science | |
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VII: Oct 9-11
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| R | Reading:
Horkheimer, Critical Theory (1940's) "Notes on Science and the Crisis" "Materialism and Metaphysics" "Authority and the Family" "Traditional and Critical Theory" Rereading: Marx, Grundrisse, the German Ideology, |
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| 13 | The Crisis of Modernity: Adorno and Marcuse | |
| 14 | The Culture Industry in the Industrial Age (1950's, 1960's) | |
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VIII: Preparation for Midterm
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| Oct 16: Review of Methodologies and Key Concepts | ||
| Oct 18: Midterm Exam | ||
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| Part II: Perspectives from Centers, Peropheries and Questions of Translatability | ||
| Week
IX: Oct 23-25
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| R | Simone
de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1940's - 1970's) |
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| 15 | Secularism, Intellectuals, and the Materiality of Institutions | |
| 16 | Western
Intellectuality and the Absence of Women: Niko Poulantzas and Institutional
Materiality (1970'ies) Giddens, Touraine, Habermas, Bobbio, Beck |
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X: Oct 30 - Nov 1
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| R | Patricia Collins: Black Feminist Thought (1990'ies) | |
| 17 | Epistemology, Feminist Intellectuals, and Race | |
| 18 | West Meets East, North Meets South | |
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XI: Nov 6-8
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| R | Frantz
Fanon: Black Skin, White Masks (1950-1960) The Wretched of the Earth |
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| 19 | Colonial Tyranny and the Power of the Unconscious | |
| 20 | Resistance to Domination | |
| Week
XII: Nov 13-15
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| R | Amartya
Sen: Inequality Reconsidered (1990) |
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| 21 | Philosophical Economics | |
| 22 | Alternative Modernities and Neo-Colonialism | |
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| Part IV: The New Economy and Cultures of Globalization | ||
| Week
XIII: Nov 20-22
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| R | Gustavo
Gutierrez, Liberation Theology |
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| 23 | 1989 - From a World System Perspective | |
| Nov 22: Thanksgiving | ||
| Week
XIV: Dec 4-6
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| R | Vandana
Shiva, Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
(2000) |
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| 24 | Information
Technology, the Network
Society |
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| 25 | The Political Economy of Hunger | |
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XV: Dec 11-13
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| 26 | Intellectuals and the Political Economy of Technology | |
| 27 | Western Modernity, Alternative Modernities, One World | |
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Final Exam |
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The
Marx Engels Reader |
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