Recognition, and the life & death struggle
Reading:
Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
Property, Civil Society & the State
Reading:
Hegel, Philosophy of Right
Cosmopolitanism: ancient and modern
Readings
Cicero, On Duties
Seneca, (1995) On The Private Life
Seneca, Letters from a Stoic.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations.
Kant, (1983) Perpetual Peace.
Kant, (2012) Idea for a universal history with a cosmopolitan aim.
Kant, (2012) Lectures on Pedagogy.
Kant, (2012) Anthropology from a pragmatic point of view.
Nussbaum, Cultivating Humanity.
Nussbaum, ‘Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism’, Boston Review.
Wider reading:
Papastephanou, ‘Hesiod the cosmopolitan’.
Erasmus, (1964), Querela Pacis, The Complaint of Peace (1517)
End of History
Readings:
Kant, (2012) ‘On the use of teleological principles in philosophy.’.
Kant, (2012) ‘Conjectural beginning of human history’
Hegel, (1984) Lectures on the Philosophy of World History.
Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man.
Fukuyama, F. (1989) ‘The End of History?’ The National Interest, Summer.
Zizek, Less Than Nothing.
Wider reading.
Browning, Lyotard and the end of Grand Narratives
Sim, Derrida and the End of History.
Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Prologue.
Lyotard, The Postmodern Explained to Children.
Tubbs, History of Western Philosophy.
Philosophers and Race
Readings:
Bernosconi ‘Kant as an unfamiliar source of racism,’ in Ward and Lott (2002)
Kant, (2012) Anthropology, History and Education.
Kant, (2012) ‘Observations of the feeling of the beautiful and the sublime,’
Kant, (2012) Anthropology, History and Education.
Kant, (2012) ‘Of the different races of human beings,’
Hegel, Philosophy of Mind.
Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of World History.
Hegel, Early Theological Writings.
Bernasconi and Lott (2000) The Idea of Race.
Wider reading
Kain, Hegel and the Other.
Bernasconi and Lott, The Idea of Race
Ward and Lott, Philosophers on Race.
Bürger, The Thinking of the Master.
Bernasconi, R. (2000) ‘With What Must the Philosophy of World History Begin? On the Racial Basis of Hegel’s Eurocentrism?’ Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Sep. Vol. 22 Issue 2.
Zizek, S. (1993) Tarrying With the Negative.
Camara, (2005), ‘The Falsity Of Hegel’s Theses On Africa’, .
mutual recognition: Kojeve
Readings:
Kojeve, Introduction to the Reading of Hegel, ‘In Place of an Introduction’.
Wider reading:
Sartre, Being and Nothingness
Rousseau, (1973) Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Taylor, Hegel.
Lacan, The Other Side of Psychoanalysis.
Browning, Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: A Reappraisal.
Harris, H.S. (1995) Hegel: Phenomenology and System.
Rose, Mourning Becomes the Law.
Dawkins, The Selfish Gene.
mutual recognition: Hyppolite
Readings:
Hyppolite, Genesis and Structure...
Williams, Hegel’s Ethics of Recognition.
Butler, Subjects of Desire.
Habermas, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity.
Wider Reading.
Williams, Hegel’s Ethics of Recognition.
Butler, Subjects of Desire.
Hyppolite, Logic and Existence.
Fanon and Said: masters and slaves
Readings:
Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth.
Spivak, Can the Subaltern Speak?
Maggio, Can the Subaltern be Heard?
Bhabha, The Location of Culture.
Said, Culture and Imperialism.
Hallward, Absolutely Postcolonial.
Wider reading:
Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks.
Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
Zizek, The Ticklish Subject.
Sartre, Existentialism and Humanism
Bernasconi, R. (2004) ‘Identity and Agency in Frantz Fanon’ Sartre Studies International. 2004, Vol. 10 Issue 2.
Bernasconi, R. (2010) ‘Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth as the Fulfillment of Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason’ Sartre Studies International. 2010, Vol. 16 Issue 2, p36-47.
Maggio, Can the Subaltern be Heard?
Asgharzadeh, The Return of the Subaltern
Williams and Chrisman, Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory
Davidson, Let Freedom Come
Dawkins, The God Delusion.
Achebe, “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ http://kirbyk.net/hod/image.of.africa.html
Hulme, Colonial Encounters
Shakespeare, The Tempest
Ngugi, Decolonising the Mind
Novels:
Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
Naipaul, A Bend in the River
Conrad, Nostromo, & Heart of Darkness
Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Ngugi, The River Between
Soyinka, The Lion and the Jewel
Winkler, Going Home to Teach
Chamoiseau, School Days
Black slavery
Readings:
du Bois, The Souls of Black Folks.
du Bois, The Conservation of the Races.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31254
du Bois, The Education of Black People.
Fanon, black skin white mask, ‘The Fact of Blackness’
Diop, Civilization of Barbarism.
Tutu, No Future Without Forgiveness.
Ansbro, Martin Luther King, The Making of a Mind.
Wider reading:
du Bois The Souls of Black Folks
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.
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.
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
Orientalism
Readings:
Said, Orientalism
Corbin, Avicenna and the Visionary Recital
Wider Reading
Corrado, Orientalism in Reverse: Henry Corbin, Iranian Philosophy, and the Critique of the West, at summit.sfu.ca/system/files/iritems1/9613/etd0507.pdf
The Daily Star, (Bangladesh) at
http://www.thedailystar.net/2003/10/04/d31004210289.htm
Said, ‘Zionism from the Standpoint of its Victims’
Porter, ‘Orientalism and its Problems’ in Williams, P. and Chrisman, L. (1993)
Ahmad, ‘Orientalism and After’ in Williams, P. and Chrisman, L.
Animals
Readings:
Bataille, Theory of Religion.
Bentham, The Principles of Morals and Legislation, 1789
http://www.econlib.org/library/Bentham/bnthPML18.html#a122
Derrida, The Animal That Therefore I am.
Zizek, (2012) Less Than Nothing.
Hegel, (1984) Lectures on the Philosophy of World History.
Descartes, (1985), Discourse on the Method.
Adorno, Beethoven, p.80.
Levinas, (1990) ‘The Name of a Dog, or Natural Rights’.
Wider reading:
Animals additional reading list (including bees)
Noys, George Bataille, a critical introduction.
Canetti, Kafka’s Other Trial.
Montaigne, Apology for Raymond Sebond.
Hume, A Treatise on Human Nature.
Locke, J. (2004) An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
Kant, (1996) or (2012) ‘Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View,’.
Kant, (2012) Lectures on Pedagogy.
Kant, (2012) ‘Conjectural beginning of human history’
Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of World History: Introduction, p. 133.
Leibniz, ‘Principles of Nature and Grace, Based on Reason,’ (1714) in Leibniz, 1998.
Plato, Timaeus,
Republic,
Laws,
Theaetetus,
Aristotle, On the Soul.
Metaphysics
History of Animals
Politics
Women
Readings:
Butler, Gender Trouble
Hooks, Feminist Theory
Beauvoir, The Second Sex
Hutchins, Hegel and Feminist Philosophy
Zizek, The Ticklish Subject
Hegel, Philosophy of Right
Wider reading
Riley, Am I That Name
Irigaray, Speculum of the Other Woman
Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Rousseau, Emile, book 5.
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