NATIONAL SOCIALISM, MARXISM AND THE END OF THEORY: A GLANCE AT THE FUTURE OF PHILOSOPHY Sarah Jean Margolis ALL REQUIRED READINGS MUST BE READ CAREFULLY AND THOUGHT ABOUT INDEPENDENTLY. ALL FRONT MATTER TO TABLE OF CONTENTS AND BACK COVERS OF EACH BOOK MUST BE READ CAREFULLY. MOVIES WILL BE SHOWN ONCE AT THE MAX PALEVSKY THEATRE. IF YOU MISS THE VIEWING THEY WILL BE AT THE REGENSTEIN ON RESERVE. I MUST WARN YOU THEY ARE SOME OF THE MOST PETRIFYING MOVIES EVER MADE. ALWAYS READ BIBLIOGRAPHIES . GROUPS WILL BE FIGURED OUT AT 5PM AFTER THE SECOND LECTURE AND EMAILED TO YOU. MY EMAIL ADDRESS IS; the.emergency.broadcast.company@gmail.com OFFICE HOURS ARE AT THE MEDICI FROM 46 MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. FEEL FREE TO JOIN AND ARGUE. WEEK 1, LECTURE 1: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN POETRY AND PROSAIC PHILOSOPHY German Poetry from The Beginnings to 1750, All front matter to pp xv, poem on pp 23 German Poetry from 1750 1900, “Novalis,” Hymns to Night pp.109 131 The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends, Madame de Stael, “Essay on Fiction” pp. 278 pp. 285 including Introduction and Bibliography DOCTOR STRANGELOVE OR HOW I LEARNED TO LOVE THE BOMB Go for a 15 minute walk outside and then write a onepage essay on it using the word “I” exactly ten times WEEK 1, LECTURE 2: INTRODUCTION TO POETICS Introduction to Poetics, Tventan Todorov “Introduction” and “Preface,” pp. vii xxxii The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends, Marcel Proust, “The Meditation on Time and Memory,“ pp.472 483, Northrop Frye, “the Archetypes of Literature, pp. 677 685 Nietzsche, “From the Birth of Tragedy,” pp. 403 405 Go for a 15 minute walk outside and then write a onepage essay on it using the word “he,” “she” or “it.” BY DAWN’S EARLY LIGHT, HBO VIDEO, 2004 WEEK 1, LECTURE 3: TEXTUALITY OF NATURE AND THE IDEOLOGICAL FORMATION OF THE THIRD REICH The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends: Immanuel Kant, pp. 244 247 and pp.266 271, Goethe, “Human Limits,” pp.50 53, Lenua, “Loneliness,” pp.198 203, Hebbel, pp. 236 241, Storm, pp. 243 249 Listen to FM 90.1 for one hour. Take a walk with no intentions and write a poem about the experience outside somewhere on campus. Extra Credit: Find a poem in another language and three translations including your own and write a one page paper on “How can history be erased” ON THE BEACH, Echo Bridge Entertainment, 2005 WEEK 2, LECTURE 1: POLITICAL SCIENCE AND THE BIRTH OF GERMAN AND AMERICAN FASCISM
The Scientific Origins of National Socialism, “Introduction to the Transaction Edition,” pp. xi xxxiv, “Ernst Haekel and The German Monist League,” pp. 1 30, “Monism, Imperialism and The First World War,” pp. 126 146, “ Monism and National Socialism,“ pp. 147 182 Issues of The Sixties, “New Views on Automation,” pp. 17 32, “Priorities in Space Exploration,” pp. 43 47, Nikita Khruschev, “Peaceful Coexistence,” pp. 278 281, Senator Barry Goldwater, “We Must Be Sure That Foreign Aid Goes Only to Our Friends,” pp. 385 387 Take a fifteen minute walk imagining that the air raid sirens are going off not on the hour and you don’t know if it’s a test or not. Write a onepage paper about the experience. FAIL SAFE, Warner Brothers, 2000 WEEK 2, LECTURE 2: THE DIALECTIC, THE UNCONCIOUS, AND 1930s GERMANY Spirit and System, “Dialectical Politics of Cultural Redemption in the Third Reich and the GDR,” pp. 99 159 The MarxEngels Reader, “Alienation and Social Classes,” pp. 133 135, “On Social Relations in Russian, pp. 665 675, “The Eighteenth Brumiere of Louis Bonaparte,” pp. 594 617 The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends, Paul de Man, “Semiology of Rhetoric,” pp.1010 1020 Take a fifteen minute walk daydreaming about someone you are in love with or imagining that the perfect person exists. ADVISE AND CONSENT, Warner Brothers, 1990 WEEK 2, LECTURE 3: LOVE, IDEOLOGY AND PROPAGANDA VS. CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY Eros and The Bitersweet, “Bittersweet,”pp. Front Cover “Preface,” pp. 39, “My Page Makes Love,“ 85 90” plus three pieces of your choice The Holy Quran, first page pp. lxii, Surah, pp. 182 241 THE DAY AFTER, Metro Goldwyn Mayer, 1983 (originally released on television) Take a fifteen minute walk watching the movie of the week once and then write a onepage paper about as much of the movie as you can remember. WEEK 3: LECTURE 3: FEMINISM, MATRIATCHY AND UNDERSTANDING AS MODALITIES OF THOUGHT The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends, De Man, “Semiology and Rhetoric,” pp. 1010 1020, Simone de Beauvoir, “Myths of Women in Five Authors,” 1087 1009, Julia Kristeva, “The Bounded Text,” pp.988 1005, Helene Cixous, “The Laugh of the Medusa,” 1090 1102, Elaine Showalter, “The Female Tradition,” pp.1103 1118, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, “The Parables of the Cave,” pp. 1119 1126, Carl Gustav Jung, “On the Relation of Anlytical Psychology to Poetry,” pp. 656 676. TO DIE FOR Take a walk and then write a one twopage paper on what you have learned from the this week’s reading. If you are female write from the perspective of a man. If you are male write from the perspective of a woman. WEEK 3, LECTURE 2: THE LOSS OF CREATIVITY AT FIN DE MILLENIUM Our Lady of The Flowers, Jean Genet, front cover to 49 The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends, De Man, “Semiology and Rhetoric,” pp. Freud: “Creative Writers and Daydreaming,” pp.650 655, Carl Jung, “On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry,” 656 665, Helene Cixious, pp.1090 1102 EYES WIDE OPEN Take a walk and then write a onepage paper on Creativity and Finality. WEEK 3, LECTURE 3: NATIONAL SOCIALISM VS. GERMAN NATIONAL SOCIALISM (NAZI) The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends, De Man, “Semiology and Rhetoric,” pp.
Jacques Derrida, “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences,” pp. 959 971, Michel Foucault, “What is an Author?” pp. 978 988, Roland Barthes, “From Work to Text,” pp.1005 1010, Niall Ferguson, “Decline and Fall” Roland Barthes, “Death of the Author” Look up “Nazi” in three dictionaries including the OED. Send me your definitions via email with a one to five sentence commentary on each. PLATOON Write a ten to twentypage paper on the topic of your choice based on the titles of the lectures making reference to at least five articles on the reading list and one movie.