Modern Liberal Arts
Semester 1 Sep 2014
Thursdays 9.30
Room: MB 1
University of Winchester
Freedom (is to Learn)
(LA 2001)
Week 1
Aristotle on masters and slaves
Readings:
Aristotle, The Politics, pp. 63-9, 94-97, 451-471.
Plato, The Laws, 713-14
Seneca, The Letters, letter XLVII, pp. 90-6.
St Augustine, City of God, pp. 874-6, 893.
St Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Q21, art. 1 (vol. 1); Q96,
art 4 (vol. 4)
Epictetus, Discourses, book IV, chapter 1
Wider reading:
Life of Diogenes the Cynic, in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent
Philosophers, Book VI, chapter 2.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lives_of_the_Eminent_Philosophers/Book_VI#Diogenes
St Augustine, City of God, Book XIX
St Thomas Aquinas, Q105, art. 4 (vol. 8)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
Aquinas, Commentary on Aristotle’s Politics,
Plato, (1971) Gorgias, 483-5.
Smith, A. (1986) Wealth of Nations, pp. 488-9.
Ward, ‘Ethnos in the Politics: Aristotle and Race,’ in Ward and
Lott (2002).
Neill, R. (2011) ‘Slavery in the Writings of Thomas Aquinas,’
http://www.sju.ca/library/Headley%20Ralph%20Neill.pdf
Clarence-Smith, Islam and the Abolition of Slavery
(Library)
Week 2
Hegel on master and slave
Reading:
Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, §178-196
du Bois, The Education of Black People, 106-8, 128.
Maya Angelou ’Still I rise’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqOqo50LSZ0
Maya Angelou ‘The Mask’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT9y9HFHpU0&feature=youtu.be
Wider reading:
Sartre, Being and Nothingness, pp. 235-245.
Adler, The Idea of Freedom, Book 2, Part I, chapter 1.
Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, part 2.
Taylor, Hegel, pp. 148-57.
Lacan, The Other Side of Psychoanalysis pp. 20-36, 148-9, 169-72.
Browning, Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Reappraisal,
chapter 12.
Harris, H.S. (1995) Hegel: Phenomenology and System, pp. 35-40.
Rose, Mourning Becomes the Law, chapter 3.
Norman, Hegel's Phenomenology
Rockmore, Before and After Hegel, pp. 103-107.
Tubbs Philosophy’s Higher Education, pp. 28-39.
Week 3
Kant and Dostoevsky
Readings:
Kant, ‘What is Enlightenment’.
Kant, (2012) On the feeling of the beautiful and the sublime, p.
33-4
Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, ‘The Grand Inquisitor’, pp.
283-304. http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dostoyevsky/d72b/chapter36.html
and pp. 360-6, chapter 41
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dostoyevsky/d72b/chapter41.html
Wider reading:
Kant, Political Writings, pp. 64 & 69.
Kant, (2007) ‘Conjectural beginning of human history’
Williams, Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction, pp. 27-34.
Week 4
of the slave
Readings:
Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, Intro 171-3
Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, conclusion
Ansbro, J.J. (1982/4) Martin Luther King, The Making of a Mind,
119-128, 214-15, 298.
ML King Jnr, Stride Toward Freedom, 88-9.
Tutu, No Future Without Forgiveness, 34-6, 40, 154-5, 212-19.
du Bois, The Souls of Black Folks, chapter 1.
Wider reading:
du Bois The Souls of Black Folks, chapter 11
du Bois, ‘du Bois Speaks to Africa,’
http://www.nathanielturner.com/duboisspeakstoafrica1958.htm
du Bois, The Education of Black People
Tutu, No Future Without Forgiveness
Diop, C.A, (1991) Civilization or Barbarism, chapter 17.
Krog, Country of my Skull,
ML King Jnr, (1956) ‘Facing the Challenge of a new age’
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/primarydocuments/Vol3/3-Dec-1956_FacingtheChallenge.pdf
ML King Jnr, ‘Introduction’ to The Papers of ML King Jnr, vol. II
Rediscovering Precious Values, Berkley, University of California
Press http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/primarydocuments/Vol2Intro.pdf
ML King Jnr, The Papers of ML King Jnr, vol. II Rediscovering
Precious Values, Berkley, University of California Press, (on
Maritain, pp. 119-24; on Hegel, pp. 154, 196-201).
ML King Jnr, Stride Toward Freedom
Bernasconi, R, (2009) ‘Our Duty to Conserve: W. E. B. Du Bois's
Philosophy of History in Context’ South Atlantic Quarterly
Summer2009, Vol. 108 Issue 3, p. 519-540.
Bernasconi, R. (2011) ‘The Impossible Logic of Assimilation,’
Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, vol. 19. No. 2
http://jffp.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jffp/article/view/490
Ellison, R. (1952/2001) Invisible Man.
Genet, J. (1960) The Blacks: a clown show.
Morrison, T. (2005) Song of Solomon.
James Meredith http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19734976
of the master
Reading:
Lecture notes from Tubbs, Contradiction of Enlightenment,
chapter 5
Horkheimer and Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment, pp. ix-xvii;
3-17; 167.
Jarvis, Adorno, pp. 13-14; 20-7.
Adorno, Minima Moralia, pp. 102-3.
Adorno, Negative Dialectics, pp. 4-6, 17, 144-7, 152-3, 406
Adorno, The Positivist Dispute in German Sociology, p. 24.
Rose, The Melancholy Science, pp. 19-20, 138,
Adorno, ‘Cultural Criticism and Society’ in Prisms, pp. 19-21.
Wider readings.
Tubbs, ‘Becoming Critical of Critical Theory of Education’
Jay, The Dialectical Imagination
Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School,
Muller-Doohm, Adorno, a biography
Claussen, Adorno, one last genius
Buck-Morss, The Origin of Negative Dialectics
Eagleton, Figures of Dissent
Magritte – messing with identity
Readings:
Gablik, (1985) magritte, chapter 7, pp. 124-135, 168-172.
Torczyner (1979) Magritte: The True Art of Painting, pp. 28, 71, &
118-25.
Weber – Capitalism, Protestantism and Reason
Readings:
Weber, M. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, pp.
91, 60-3, 80-1, 108-9, 117-121, 152-8, 162, 169-75.
Weber, Economy and Society, pp. 223-4.
Weber, M. From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, pp. 214-6.
Weber, M. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, pp
180-3.
Handout
Vincent van Gogh
Reading:
letters from De Leeuw, The Letters of Van Gogh
http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/
http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters.html
Wider reading:
Wyschogrod, ‘Disrupting Reason: Art and Madness in Hegel and
van Gogh’, in Zizek et al. Hegel and the Infinite.
Bataille, Visions of Excess, pp. 61-72.
Heidegger, ‘The Origin of the Work of Art’ in Basic Writings, pp.
158-162.
McQuillan, Van Gogh.
Walther, Van Gogh.
Uhde, Van Gogh.
Bruce, Van Gogh.
Bonafoux, Van Gogh: the passionate eye
‘Philosophers Rumble Over Van Gogh’s Shoes’
http://harpers.org/archive/2009/10/hbc-90005828
Dante and Beatrice
Reading:
Dante, Vita Nuova at
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41085
Auerbach, Dante Poet of the Secular World, pp. 60-8.
Dante, Convivio, (trans. Lansing), chapter 12 at
http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/books/convivi/convivio02.html#12
Wider reading:
Gilson, Dante and Philosophy
TS Eliot, Dante (from The Sacred Wood) at
http://www.bartleby.com/200/sw14.html
TS Eliot, Dante (1929)
Lewis, Dante, A Life
Ryan, Dante and Aquinas
Boccaccio, Life of Dante
Sayers, Introductory Papers on Dante
Jacoff, Cambridge Companion to Dante
Nietzsche’s Zarathustra
Reading:
Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, in The Portable Nietzsche, pp.
121-39, 225-8, 267-71, 342-3.
Wider reading:
Tolstoy, My Religion: What I Believe, chapter 1.
Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy
Allison (ed.) The New Nietzsche.
Rosen, The Mask of Enlightenment.
Ansell-Pearson, An Introduction to Nietzsche as Political Thinker.
Agamben, The Man Without Content, pp. 85-93.
Tubbs, Contradiction of Enlightenment, chapter 8.
Tubbs, ‘The Return of the Teacher’, Educational Philosophy and
Theory, 35: 1.
Tubbs, Philosophy of the Teacher, chapter 7.
Tubbs, Philosophy’s Higher Education, chapter 5.
Kierkegaard and the Seducer
Reading:
Kierkegaard, Johannes Climacus, 118-125, 166-72.
Kierkegaard, Either/Or (1) pp. 38-43,71-80, 89-119, 123, 141,
147-8, 156-7, 166-7, 376, 390, 423, 445, 501, 555, 558.
Kierkegaard, Papers and Journals, 412-22, 430-2, 138-46.
Lowrie, A Short Life of Kierkegaard, 135-43.
Kierkegaard, Stages on Life’s Way, (Quidam’s Diary) 226, 231,236,
241, 244.
Rose, Love’s Work, chapter 8.
Wider reading:
Kierkegaard, Either/Or (1 & 2)
Rousseau, Emile, book 5.
Hegel, Philosophy of Right, ‘The Family’ (and Addition, §166).
Kierkegaard, Stages on Life’s Way, 329-35, and 195-397 (or, 209,
211, 215, 216, 222, 225, 239, 241, 260, 305, 315, 320, 330-1, 3757, 395-6).
Tubbs, Philosophy’s Higher Education, chapter 4.
McDonald, ‘Love in Kierkegaard’s Symposia’
http://www.minerva.mic.ul.ie//vol7/kierkegaard.html
Kafka and Felice
Reading:
Kafka, Letters to Felice, May 1913-June 1913 (pp. 289-313); July
1913 (pp. 320-5); Aug-Sep 1913 (pp. 328-9; 339-47; 351-60); Dec
1913-Jan 1914 (pp. 373-9); various (pp. 183-4; 396-7; 428-9; 472
474-9, 508, 566-8).
Brod (ed.) The Diaries of Franz Kafka, July 1913 (p. 225); Aug
1913 (p227-8, 230); Dec 1913 (p. 243); Feb 1914 (p. 259); March
1914 (pp. 262-3); various (pp. 275; 293-4; 328, 330, 385, 387, 393,
410).
Canetti, Kafka’s Other Trial, pp. 37-8, 43-53, 60-5, 69-78; 88-91.
Wider Reading:
Sartre, Existentialism and Humanism.
Kafka, The Trial.
Hegel, (1975) Love
Hegel, The Letters, pp. 234-52.
Assessments
Essay 1: Using texts from weeks 1-3 describe different perspectives on the master/slave
relationship (2,000 words; deadline Thursday week 5, 23rd October to Catherine, by
3.30)
Essay 2: from a list that grows week by week…
(2,000 words; deadline Thursday week 12, December 11th to Catherine, by 3.30)
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