Week 1:
Introductions: The principles of fascism and National Socialism
Reading/Wider Reading:
Cole, O. D. H. (1965) Socialist Thought, Socialism and Fascism 1931-1939, London: MacMillan
Murphy, R., Stevens, F., Trivers, H., & Roland, J. Elements of Nazi Ideology, in Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy University of Colorado, Filiquarian Publishing
Mussolini, B. (1933) The Doctrine of Fascism, in Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy University of Colorado, Filiquarian Publishing
Rocco, A. The Political Doctrine of Fascism, in Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy University of Colorado, Filiquarian Publishing
Week 2:
The Fuhrer, the Will and the Nation
Reading/Wider Reading:
Hitler, A. Speeches and Quotes in Halasz, J. (Ed.) (2008) Hitler Speeches and Quotes, London: World Propaganda Classics Hitler, A. (1924) The Mission of the Nazi Movement, in Griffin, R (Ed) (1995) Fascism, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Hitler, A. (1983) Mein Kampf, London: Hurst and Blackett Ltd
Murphy, R., Stevens, F., Trivers, H., & Roland, J. Elements of Nazi Ideology, in Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy University of Colorado, Filiquarian Publishing
Steiner, G. (Ed). (1971) Roots of the Right, London:Jonathan Cape Ltd.
Week 3:
Nazism – Culture and propaganda
Reading/Wider reading:
Brady, R. A. (1937) The Spirit and Structure of German Fascism, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd.
Goebbels, J. in Griffin, R. (Ed) (1995) Fascism, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Goebbels J. (1944) Immortal German Culture, www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/goeb43.htm
Hitler, A. in Griffin, R. (1995) Fascism, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Hitler, A. Speeches and Quotes in Halasz, J. (Ed.) (2008) Hitler Speeches and Quotes, London: World Propaganda Classics
Week 4:
Alfred Rosenberg – Myth and the Race Soul
Reading:
Rosenberg, A. (2004) The Myth of the Twentieth Century, Sussex: Historical Review Press
Whisker, J. B. (1980) in Rosenberg, A. (2004) The Myth of the Twentieth Century, Sussex: Historical Review Press
Wider Reading:
Cecil, R. (1972) The Myth of the Master Race: Alfred Rosenberg and Nazi Ideology, London: Batsford
Rosenberg, A. (1974) Race and Race History: and other essays, Harper (note: the library does not list a place of publication for this text and therefore it will be acceptable to reference it without a place of publication)
Rosenberg, A. (2004) Political Essays: selected and translated with an introduction by Alexander Jacob, Uckfield: Historical Review Press
Week 5:
Carl Schmitt – the Political
Reading:
Schmitt, C. (2005) Political Theology, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Schmitt, C. (2007) The Concept of the Political, Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press
Schmitt, C. (2008) The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes: meaning and failure of a political symbol, Chicago, III.; London: University of Chicago Press
Wider Reading:
Schmitt, C. (2005) Political Theology, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Schmitt, C. (2004) Legality and Legitimacy, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press
Schmitt, C. (2007) The Concept of the Political, Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press
Schmitt, C. (2008) The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes: meaning and failure of a political symbol, Chicago, III.; London: University of Chicago Press
Schmitt, C. (2011) Writings on War, Cambridge: Polity Press
Week 6:
Martin Heidegger – The Philosophical
Readings:
Faye, E. (2009) Heidegger: the introduction of Nazism into philosophy in light of the unpublished seminars of 1933-35, New Haven, Conn; London: Yale University Press
Heidegger, M. in Wolin, R. (1993) The Heidegger Controversy Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press
Rorty, R. (1999) Philosophy and Social Hope, London: Penguin
Sluga, H. (1993) Heidegger’s Crisis, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press
Wider Readings:
Adorno, T. (2002) The Jargon of Authenticity, London: Routledge
Farias, V. (1989) Heidegger and Nazism, Philadelphia : Temple University Press
Lang, B. (1996) Heidegger’s Silence, London: Athlone
Faye, E. (2009) Heidegger: the introduction of Nazism into philosophy in light of the unpublished seminars of 1933-35, New Haven, Conn; London: Yale University Press
Heidegger, M (1962) Being and Time, Oxford: Blackwell
Heidegger, M. (1993) Basic Writings, London: Routledge (Ed. Krell, D.)
Lyotard, J-F. (1990) Heidegger and “the jews”, Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press
Sluga, H. (1993) Heidegger’s Crisis: philosophy and politics in Nazi Germany, Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press
Wolin, R. (1993) The Heidegger Controversy Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press
Young, J. (1998) Heidegger, Philosophy, Nazism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Week 7:
Reason
Reading:
Bauman, Z. (2002) Modernity and the Holocaust, Cambridge: Polity
Wider Reading:
Adorno, T. (1990) Negative Dialectics, London: Routledge
Adorno, T. (1967) Prisms, London: Spearman
Adorno, T. (2003) Can one live after Auschwitz? A Philosophical Reader, Stanford California: Stanford University Press
Adorno, T. and Horkheimer, M. (1970) Dialectic of Enlgithenment, London: Verso
Bauman, Z. (1991) Modernity and Ambivalence, Oxford: Polity
Beilharz, P. (2001) The Bauman Reader, London: Blackwell
Bauman, Z. (2002) Modernity and the Holocaust, Cambridge: Polity
Week 8:
Responsibility
Reading:
Arendt, H. (2005) Responsibility and Judgement, Schocken Books Goldhagen, D. (2002) A Moral Reckoning, London: Time Warner Books
Wider Reading:
Antaki, M., Baehr, P. Benhabib, S. and Berkowitz, R. (2009) Thinking in Dark Times, Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics, Fordham University Press
Arendt, H. (2004) The Origins of Totalitarianism, New York: Harcourt
Arendt, H. (2005) Responsibility and Judgement, Schocken Books
Villa, D. (1999) Politics, Philosophy, Terror: Essays on the Thought of Hannah Arendt, New Jersey: Princeton
Week 9:
Responses and Remorse
Reading:
Amery, J. (1980) At the Mind’s Limits, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press
Fackenheim, E. (1994) To Mend the World: Foundations of Post
Holocaust Jewish Thought, Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Patterson, D. (2008) Emil L. Fackenheim: A Jewish Philosopher’s Response to the Holocaust, Syracuse University Press
Williams, R. (2000) Lost Icons, Edinburgh, T & T Clark
Wider Reading:
Bauer, Y. (2001) Rethinking the Holocaust, London: Yale University Press
Fackenheim, E. (1994) To Mend the World: Foundations of Post
Holocaust Jewish Thought, Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Fackenheim, E. (1994) Encounters between Judaism and Modern Philosophy Northvale, N.J. : Jason Aronson
Patterson, D. (2008) Emil L. Fackenheim: A Jewish Philosopher’s Response to the Holocaust, Syracuse University Press
Rose, (1997) Mourning Becomes the Law, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Williams, R. (2000) Lost Icons, Edinburgh, T & T Clark
Weeks, 10, 11 and 12: Student Presentations