January 9: What is Modernity?
Eisenstadt, S.N., “Multiple modernities” Daedalus Vol. 129, No: 1 (Winter 2000), 1-29.
Jürgen Habermas, “Modernity: An Unfinished Project” Habermas And the Unfinished Project of Modernity. Edited by Maurizio Passerin d'Entrèves and Seyla Benhabib. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997, 38-55.
Dussel, E. “Modernity, European Empires, Colonialism and Capitalism: Towards an Understanding of the Trans-modernity Process.” Theologies and Cultures. Rethinking Globalization, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2004), 24-50.
Jürgen Habermas, “Modernity: An Unfinished Project” Habermas And the Unfinished Project of Modernity. Edited by Maurizio Passerin d'Entrèves and Seyla Benhabib. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997, 38-55.
Dussel, E. “Modernity, European Empires, Colonialism and Capitalism: Towards an Understanding of the Trans-modernity Process.” Theologies and Cultures. Rethinking Globalization, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2004), 24-50.
January 16: Postmodern / Metamodern
Lyotard, Jean-François excerpt from The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge” From Modernism to Postmodernism: Anthology. Edited by Lawrence Cahoone. London: Blackwell 2012, 259- 277.
Vermeulen, Timotheus; van den Akker, Robin. "Notes on Metamodernism". Journal of Aesthetics and Culture, Vol. 2 (2010). 1–14.
Vermeulen, Timotheus; van den Akker, Robin. "Notes on Metamodernism". Journal of Aesthetics and Culture, Vol. 2 (2010). 1–14.
January 23: Enlightenment and the Modern Individual I
Kant, Immanuel, “An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?” translated by James Schmidt What Is Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions edited by James Schmidt. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996, 58-64.
Foucault, Michel, "What is Enlightenment?" in The Foucault Reader. Edited by Paul Rabinow New York: Pantheon Books, 1984, 32-50.
reading response 1
January 30: Enlightenment and the Modern Individual II
Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, "Excursus One: Odysseus or Myth and Enlightenment"Dialectic of Enlightenment. Translated by John Cumming, New York: Continuum, 1998, 43-80.
optional
optional
Amy Allen, "The Dialectic of Progress: Adorno and the Philosophy of History" in The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory, New York: Columbia University Press, 2016, 166-176.
reading response 2
February 6: Enlightenment and the Modern Individual III: Contemporary Neo-liberalism
Guest lecture: Samir Gandesha, location TBA
Theodor Adorno, "Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda" The Essential Frankfurt School Reader, New York: Continuum, 1982, 118-137.
Samir Gandesha, "A Period of Enormous Opportunity": the crisis of 'critique'" Open Democracy, Dec. 20, 2019.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/a-period-of-enormous-opportunity-the-crisis-of-critique/
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/a-period-of-enormous-opportunity-the-crisis-of-critique/
February 13: Mid-term and screening
Mid-term exam
Film Screening: Adam Curtis' "Episode One" Century of the Self
Film Screening: Adam Curtis' "Episode One" Century of the Self
February 20: No Class — Study Break
February 27: Hegel’s Master Slave Dialectic and the New World
Paul Gilroy, "Masters, Mistresses, Slaves, and the Antinomies of Modernity" The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. London: Verso Books, 1993, 41-71.
Buck-Morss, Susan, excerpt from “Hegel and Haiti” in Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009, 21-35.
due: research question and bibliography
March 5: Colonialism, Domination and the Nation State
Naoki Sakai, "Modernity and its Critique: The Problem of Universalism and Particularism" in Postmodernism and Japan. Edited by Masao Miyoshi and H.D. Harootunian, Durham: Duke University Press, 1989, 93-122.
Elizabeth A. Povinelli "Settler Modernity and the Quest for an Indigenous Tradition" Alternative Modernities. Edited by Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Durham: Duke University Press, 2001, 24- 57.
group work
March 12: Walking The Modern City
Walter Benjamin "Paris: Capital of the Nineteenth Century" in Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings. Edited by Peter Demetz. Translated by Edmund Jephcott, New York: Schocken Books, 1978, 146-162.
Screening: Cléo cinq à sept, Agnes Varda, 1961.optional: excerpts from Charles Baudelaire, “Painter of Modern Life” in From Modernism to Postmodernism: Anthology. Edited by Lawrence Cahoone. London: Blackwell 2012, 96-101.
due: outline
March 19: Design for a new world
Rahul Mehrotra, "Simultaneous Modernity: Negotiations and Resistances in Urban India" Ruins of Modernity. Edited by Julia Hell and Andreas Schönle. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010, 245-249.
Charles Jencks, excerpts from "The Death of Modern Architecture" and from "What is Post- Modernism?" in From Modernism to Postmodernism: Anthology. Edited by Lawrence Cahoone, London: Blackwell 2012, 457-463.
group work
March 26: Modernity in Ruins?
Latour, Bruno, “Crisis” We Have Never Been Modern trans. Catherine Porter, (Cambridge: Harvard UP), 1993. 💀
Lisa Rofel, "Modernity's Masculine Fantasies" Critically Modern: Alternatives, Alterities, Anthropologies, edited by Bruce M. Knauft. Indianapolis: University of Indiana Press, 2002, pp. 175-193 (optional)
reading response 3
April 2: Final Exam Planning and Review
no readings assigned for this week
now go get a fucking job
now go get a fucking job
