LA 3012
Modern Liberal Arts
University of Winchester
Semester 1
September 2014-15
Room MC107
Rebekah Howes
Spirit: life and death
Week 1 Life and Death
Reading
Hawthorne, N. (1967) ‘The Minister’s Black Veil’ in Great Short Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, New
York: Harper & Row
Wider reading
Saitya Brata Das (2008) ‘To Philosophize is to Learn How to Die?’ in KRITIKE Vol two Number 131-49
Cohen, J. (2005) How to read Freud, London: Granta
Harris, H.S. (1995) Phenomenology and System Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc
Hegel, G.W.F. (1977) Phenomenology of Spirit, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Hyppolite, J. (1974) Genesis and Structure of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, Evanston:
Northwestern University Press
James, K. (2009) The deaths of Seneca, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Lee, A.R. (1982) Nathaniel Hawthorne: new critical essays, London: Vision
Plato, (1997) Republic in Plato Complete Works, Indiana: Hackett Publishing Company The myth of Er
Plato (1997) ‘Phaedo’ in Plato Complete Works, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc
Marcus Aurelius (2006) Meditations, London: Penguin
Millington, R.H. (ed) (2004) The Cambridge companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne, Cambridge:
Cambridge Uni Press
Seneca (1974) Letters from a stoic: epistulae morales ad Lucilium, Harmondsworth: Penguin
Seneca (1997) On the Shortness of Life, London: Penguin
Steiner, G. (1971) In Bluebeard's castle: some notes towards the re-definition of culture, London:
Faber & Faber
Tubbs, N. (2009) History of Western Philosophy, London: Palgrave macmillan
Tubbs, N. (2008) Education in Hegel, London: Continuum
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/montaigne/montaigne-essays--5.html no XVII
Week 2 The right to die
Week 3 Spirit
Reading
Hegel, G.W.F. (1977) Phenomenology of Spirit, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Harris, H.S. (1995) Phenomenology and System Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc
Wyschogrod, E. (1985) Spirit in Ashes, New Have & London: Yale University Press pp 67-69
Wider reading
Houlgate, S. (1991) Freedom, truth and history: an introduction to Hegel's philosophy, London:
Routledge
Hyppolite, J. (1974) Genesis and Structure of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, Evanston:
Northwestern University Press
Tubbs, N. (2008) Education in Hegel, London: Continuum pp 35-39
Williams, R. (2007) ‘Logic and Spirit in Hegel’ in Wrestling with Angels, Conversations in Modern
Theology, London: SCM Press
Yovel, Y. (2005) Hegel’s Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit, New Jersey: Princeton University
Press
Week 4 French revolution ‘That which produces the general good is always terrible’ (Saint-Just)
Reading
Burke, E. (2001) Reflections on the Revolution in France, California: Stanford University Press pp 183192
Comay, R. (2010) Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution (Cultural Memory in the
Present) Stanford University Press
Robespierre, M. ‘On the Principles of Revolutionary Government’; ‘On the Principles of Political
Morality that should guide the National Convention in the Domestic Administration of the Republic’;
‘Extracts from Speech of 8 Thermidor Year II’; ‘On the Trial of the King’ p59 in Zizek, S. (2007) Virtue
and Terror: Maximilien Robespierre, London: Verso
Zizek, S. ‘The Dark Matter of Violence, or, Putting Terror in Perspective’ in Wahnick, S. (2012) In
Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution, London: Verso
http://youtu.be/knDe_EZSxTw - documentary
James Gillray and the French revolution: http://guliverlooks.wordpress.com/2014/03/31/the-workof-james-gillray
Wider Reading
Arendt, H. (1963) On Revolution, London: Faber pp.13-52
Andress, D. ‘Liberty, Unanimity, and the Paradoxes of Subjectivity and Citizenship in the French
Revolution’ in Halfin, I. (ed) (2002) Language and Revolution: Making Modern Political Identities,
London: Frank Cass Publishers, pp 27-46
Fanon, F. (1990) The Wretched of the Earth, London: Penguin pp.35-95
Furet, F. (1981) Interpreting the French Revolution, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Freeman, M. “Revolution as a Subject of Science,” in O’Sullivan, N. (1983) Revolutionary Theory and
Political Reality, St. Martins Press, pp.23-40
Harris, H.S. (1995) Phenomenology and System Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc
Israel, J. (2001) Radical enlightenment: philosophy and the making of modernity, 1650-1750, Oxford:
Oxford University Press
Marx, K. ‘The Class Struggles in France, 1848-1850’ in Tucker, R.C. (1978) The Marx-Engels Reader,
W. W. Norton & Company 2nd Edition
Marx Class struggle in France: The Paris Commune ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ in Tucker, R.C.
(1978) The Marx-Engels Reader, New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2nd Edition
Marquis de Condorcet “On the Meaning of the Word “Revolutionary.” (2 pages -extract from his
Oeuvres, 1847-49)
Scurr, R. (2006) Fatal purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution, London: Chatto & Windus
Tilly, C. (1993) European revolutions, 1492-1992, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing chapter 1
Tocqueville, Alexis de, (2008) The Ancien Régime and the Revolution, London: Penguin Classics
http://www.marxists.org/history/france/revolution/robespierre/ excerpts from some of
Robespierre’s speeches
Vaclav Havel, The Power of the Powerless, pp.43-63, pp.110-127
About James Gillray http://guliverlooks.wordpress.com/2014/03/31/the-work-of-james-gillray
Week 5 The Guillotine
Reading
Comay, R. (2010) Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution (Cultural Memory in the
Present) Stanford University Press
Foucault, M. (1977) Discipline and Punish, London: Penguin, chapter 1, also pp 13, 15, 16
Outram, D. (1989) The Body and the French Revolution, New Haven and London: Yale University
Press
Wider reading
Hegel, G.W.F. (1977) Phenomenology of Spirit, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Harris, H.S. (1995) Phenomenology and System Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc
http://boisdejustice.com/History/History.html - an interesting and photographic history of the
guillotine
Week 6 Victor Hugo: ‘93
Reading
Hugo, V. (1976) Les Misérables, London: Penguin Books
Hugo, V. (2011) Ninety-three, S.I. Merchant Books
Wider Reading
Grossman, K. M. (2012) The later novels of Victor Hugo: variations on the politics and poetics of
transcendence, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Maurois, A. (1956) Victor Hugo, London: Jonathan Cape
Week 7 ‘half in love with easeful death’
Reading
Dostoevsky, F. (1992) Devils, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Eagleton, T. (2005) Holy Terror, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Fernie, E. (2013) The Demonic: Literature and Experience, London: Routledge
Williams, R. (2008) Dostoevsky, Language Faith and Fiction, London: Continuum
Wider reading
Bakhtin, M. (1984) Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
Bakhtin, M. (1981) The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays, Austin: University of Texas Press
Banjerjee, M.N. (2006) Dostoevsky: The Scandal of Reason: Great Barrington, Mass: Lindisfarne
Books
Bernstein, R.J. (2002) Radical evil: a philosophical interrogation, Cambridge: Polity Press
Blake, C. & Banham, G. (2000) Evil Spirits: Nihilim and the Fate of Modernity, Manchester:
Manchester University Press
Eagleton, T. (2005) Holy Terror, Oxford: Oxford University Press chapter 4 ‘saints and suicides’
Harper, R. (1967) The Seventh Solitude: Metaphysical Homelessness in Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, and
Nietzsche, John Hopkins University Press
Leatherbarrow, W.J. (ed) (2002) The Cambridge Companion to Dostoevsky, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press
Russell, J.B. (1986) Mephistopheles: the Devil in the Modern World, New York: Cornell University
Press
Russell, J.B. (1977) The Devil: perceptions of evil from antiquity to primitive Christianity, New York:
Cornell University Press
Week 8 Demonic dialectic
Dostoevsky, F. (1958) The Brothers Karamazov, London: Penguin Books
Williams, R. (2008) Dostoevsky, Language Faith and Fiction, London: Continuum
Wider reading
Blake, C. & Banham, G. (2000) Evil Spirits: Nihilim and the Fate of Modernity, Manchester:
Manchester University Press
Fernie, E. (2013) The Demonic: Literature and Experience, London: Routledge
Harper, R. (1967) The Seventh Solitude: Metaphysical Homelessness in Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, and
Nietzsche, John Hopkins University Press
Hegel, G.W.F. (1977) Phenomenology of Spirit, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Kaufmann, W. (1980) From Shakespeare to Existentialism, New Jersey: Princeton University Press
Leatherbarrow, W.J. (ed) (2002) The Cambridge Companion to Dostoevsky, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press
Russell, J.B. (1986) Mephistopheles: the Devil in the Modern World, New York: Cornell University
Press
Russell, J.B. (1977) The Devil: perceptions of evil from antiquity to primitive Christianity, New York:
Cornell University Press
Sayers, D.L. (1963) The Poetry of Search and the Poetry of Statement, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd
chapter x
Steiner, G. (1980) Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: an essay in contrast, London: Faber
Terras, V. (2002) A Karamazov Companion, Wisconsin, The University of Wisconsin Press
Wellek, R. (ed) (1962) Dostoevsky, A collection of Critical Essays, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Week 9 What’s the point?
Reading
Sartre, J.P. (2007) Existentialism and Humanism, London, Methuen.
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/works/exist/sartre.htm
Camus, A. (1989) The Stranger, London: Vintage
http://www.macobo.com/essays/epdf/CAMUS,%20Albert%20-%20The%20Stranger.pdf
Wider reading
Crosby, D. (1988) The Spectre of the Absurd, New York: State University of New York Press
Daigle, C. (2004) ‘Sartre and Nietzsche’ in Sartre Studies International, Vol. 10, No. 2 pp. 195-210
Howells, C. (1992) The Cambridge Companion to Sartre, Cambridge: Cambridge Uni Press
Hughes, E.J. (2007) The Cambridge Companion to Camus, Cambridge: Cambridge Uni Press
Lightbody, B. (2009) ‘Death and Liberation: A Critical Investigation of Death in Sartre’s
Being and Nothingness’ in Minerva - An Internet Journal of Philosophy 13 (2009): 85-98
Marcuse, H. (1948) ‘Existentialism: Remarks on Jean-Paul Sartre’s L’etre et le Neant’ in
PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH Volume VIII, No.3
Nietzsche, F. (1992) On the Genealogy of Morals in Basic Writings of Nietzsche, New York: Modern
Library
Gillespie, J.H. (2013) ‘Sartre and God: A Spiritual Odyssey?: Part 1’ in Sartre Studies International,
Vol. 19, No. 1 pp. 71-90
Sartre, J.P. (1969) The Wall, New York: New Directions
http://faculty.risd.edu/dkeefer/pod/wall.pdf
Soloman, R.C. (2006) Dark feelings, grim thoughts: experience and reflection in Camus and Sartre,
Oxford: Oxfrod Uni press
Thody, P. (1989) Albert Camus, Basingstoke: Macmillan
Week 10 The Great souled man
Reading
Kaufmann, W. (1959) The Owl and the Nightingale, London: Faber and Faber: chapter 1
Wider reading
Aristotle (1984) Nicomachean Ethics in The Complete Works of Aristotle, New Jersey: Princeton Uni
Press
Holloway, C. (2007) Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" and Aristotle's Great-Souled Man in The Review of
Politics, Vol. 69, No. 3, Special Issue on Politics and Literature pp. 353-374
Howland, J. (2002) ‘Aristotle's Great-Souled Man’ The Review of Politics, Vol. 64, No. 1 pp. 27-56
Blake, C. & Banham, G. (2000) Evil Spirits: Nihilim and the Fate of Modernity, Manchester:
Manchester University Press
Kaufmann, W. (1980) From Shakespeare to Existentialism, New Jersey: Princeton University Press
Kaufmann, W. (1979) Tragedy and philosophy, New York: Princeton University Press
Kaufmann, W. (1976) Existentialism, religion and death: thirteen essays, New York: New American
Library
Week 11 Gillian Rose
Reading
The first six essays in Women: a cultural review, Spring 1998, vol. 9, no. 1.
Caygill, H. (1996) ‘Gillian Rose Obituary’ Radical Philosophy, Vol. 77
Rose, G. (1995) Love’s Work, London, Chatto and Windus, pp. 113-115
Wider reading
(There aren’t as yet that many works available about Rose, but there is a full bibliography at
http://www2.gsu.edu/~phlvwl/rose-bibliography.htm).
Lloyd, V. (2009) Law and Transcendence: On the Unfinished Project of Gillian Rose, Palgrave
Macmillan
Lloyd, V (2012) ‘Gillian Rose: making Things Difficult Again’ in Stewart, J. (ed) (2012) Volume 11,
Tome I: Kierkegaard's Influence on Philosophy - German and Scandinavian Philosophy, Surrey:
Ashgate Also to be found online at http://vwlloyd.mysite.syr.edu/rose-kierkegaard.pdf
Tubbs, N. (1998) ‘What is Love’s Work’, Women: A Cultural Review, Vol. 9, no. 1.
Tubbs, N. (2000) ‘Mind the Gap: The Philosophy of Gillian Rose’, Thesis Eleven, no. 60.
Rose, G. (1993) Judaism and Modernity, Philosophical Essays, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers
Rose, G. (1996) Mourning Becomes the Law, Cambridge University Press, introduction and
Shanks, A. (2008) Against Innocence: Gillian Rose’s Reception and Gift of Faith, London: SCM Press
Schick, K. (2012) Gillian Rose: ‘A Good Enough Justice’, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
Williams, R. (2007)’ Between Politics and Metaphysics: Reflections in the Wake of Gillian Rose’ in
Wrestling with Angels, London: SCM Press
Williams, R. (2000) Lost Icons, London: Morehouse Publishing
Assignment 1
‘We have a right to own our own death’ Critically discuss. (words 2500)
OR
What is the Spirit of the Guillotine? (words 2500)
Due in to Catherine Monday 3rd November Week 7