ENG3014 | Spring Calendar 2006

Classic and Medieval Origins

Week One: January 9 - 13[top]

General Introduction: What is Critical Theory?
Introduction to Class Policies and Requirements for the Course
Plato, "The Republic" (IP, pp. 21-35) and "The Ion" (CTSP, pp. 12-17),
Quiz 1

Supplementary Texts:
Plato, The Republic, Desmond Lee, Trans. (Viking Press, 1955), 2nd revised edition. >> See resources

R. Kraut, The Cambridge Companion to Plato (Cambridge University Press, 1992).

Week Two: January 16 - 20 [top]

Plato, "The Republic," Books II, III, X (CTSP, pp. 18-37), Quiz on Plato
Aristotle, "Poetics" (CTSP, pp. 50-66).

Supplementary Text:
Aristotle, Aristotle’s Poetics, S. H. Butcher, Trans. (Hill and Wang Publications, 1989). >> See resources

Dr. Picart's students are invited to Transcendence and Transience, a One woman show featuring mixed media paintings, prints and postcards by Dr. Picart.
The show runs from Jan. 16-30 at Tallahassee Little Theater. See http://www.carolinekaypicart.com/transcendence.htm for more information.

Week Three: January 23- 27[top]

St. Augustine, "Confessions" (IP, pp. 49-54), Quiz on St. Augustine
St. Augustine, "Books One and Two" (CTSP, pp. 108-113)
Film Viewing of Seven to be Arranged; you may watch this film on your own.

Supplementary Text:
Augustine, Confessions, Henry Chadwick, Trans. (Oxford University Press, 1998). >> See resources

Week Four: January 30 - February 3[top]

Required Film: Se7en; Supplementary Film: What Dreams May Come
Dante Alighieri, "The Inferno" (IP, pp. 55-64)
Dante Alighieri, "The Banquet" and "Letter to Can Grande Della Scala"
(CTSP, pp. 120-122)

Supplementary Text:
Dante Alighieri, The Inferno, Trans. John Ciardi (Signet, 2001).
>> See resources

Dr. Picart's students are invited to Bodyworks: Landscapes of Desire, a One woman show featuring mixed media paintings, prints and postcards by Dr. Picart.
The show runs from Jan. 30-Feb. 10 at Oglesby Gallery on FSU Campus.
See http://www.carolinekaypicart.com/landscapesOfDesire.htm for more information.

From February 1-5, Dr. Picart, who is co-organizing the 2006 FSU Film and Literature Conference, will not be as available as usual. Go to: http://english3.fsu.edu/~filmlit2006/ for details. However, classes will go on as usual and alternative activities have been designed. Graduate students are highly encouraged to attend the conference, as it is free for FSU students and faculty, and features some of the best conference papers on the topic of "Documenting Trauma, Documenting Terror" not only nationally but also internationally. Plenary speakers include: Keith Beauchamp, Dominick LaCapra, Brian Winston and Janet Walker.

Week Five: February 6 - February 10 [top]

Any Catching Up, Review and Exam
Viewing of the Matrix or Mindwalk to be arranged; you may make alternative arrangements to view these films.

Faces of the Modern

Student Reports Begin.
Final Paper Questions Made Available.

Week Six: February 13 - 17 [top]

Bacon, "Aphorisms: Book I" (IP, pp. 72-79)
Bacon, "The Advancement of Learning," (CTSP, pp. 183-184),
Quiz on Bacon

Required Movie: The Matrix OR Mindwalk
Descartes, "Philosophical Works" (IP, pp. 80-85), Quiz on Descartes

Supplementary Texts:
Francis Bacon, The New Organon, Eds. Lisa Jardine and Michael Silverthorne (Cambridge University Press, 2000). >> See resources

Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method, and Meditations on First Philosophy, Trans. Donald Cress (Hackett, 1999). >> See resources

Week Seven: February 20 - 24 [top]

Burke, "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful," (CTSP, pp. 299-306) Quiz on Burke


Kant, "Critique of Judgment" (CTSP, pp. 376-393), Quiz on Kant

Supplementary Texts:
Edmund Burke, The Portable Edmund Burke, Trans. Isaac Kramnick (Penguin, 1999). >> See resources

Paul Guyer, The Cambridge Companion to Kant (Cambridge University Press, 1992).

Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Judgment (Great Books in Philosophy), Trans. J.H. Bernard (Prometheus, 2000). >> See resources

Week Eight: February 27 - March 3 [top]

Wollestonecraft, "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman," Quiz on Wollestonecraft
(CTSP, pp. 395-399)


Schopenhauer, "The World as Will and Idea,"
(CTSP, pp. 496-507) Quiz on Schopenhauer

Supplementary Texts:
Mary Wallstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: An Authoritative Text; Background; The Wollstonecraft Debate; Criticism (Norton, 1988). >> See resources

Bryan Magee, The Philosophy of Schopenhauer (Oxford, 1997).

Week 9 (March 6-10): SPRING BREAK NO CLASSES [top]

Week Ten: March 13 - 14 [top]

Drafts are due on March 13; (possible bonus activity)

Hegel, "The Philosophy of Fine Art," (CTSP, pp. 534-545)


Marx, "The German Ideology" and "Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy" (CTSP, pp. 624-627) Quiz on Marx

Supplementary Texts:
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, Trans. A.V. Miller and J.N. Findlay (Oxford University Press, 1979). >> See resources

Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (Penguin Classics), Trans. Ben Fowles (Penguin, 1992). >> See resources

Transitioning into the Contemporary Period

Week Eleven: March 20 - 24 [top]

Nietzsche, "The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music"
and "Truth and Falsity in an Ultramoral Sense" (CTSP, pp. 629-639)
Quiz 1 on Nietzsche

Nietzsche, "Towards a Genealogy of Morals" and "Thus Spoke
Zarathustra" (IP, pp. 101-108), Quiz 2 on Nietzche

Supplementary Texts:
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy and the Genealogy of Morals (Anchor, 1956). >> See resources

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and for None, Trans. Walter Kaufmann (Modern Library, 1995)

Week Twelve: March 27 - 31 [top]

Freud, "Creative Writers and Daydreaming" (CTSP, p. 717) and "Psychoanalysis in Culture" (IP, pp. 90-98)


de Beauvoir, "The Second Sex" (CTSP, pp. 994-1000), Threaded Conversation 1

Supplementary Texts:
Sigmund Freud, Interpretation of Dreams, Ed. James Strachey (Avon, 1983). >> See resources

Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, Eds. James Strachey and Peter Gay (W.W. Norton & Company, 1989).

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, Trans. H.M. Parshley (Vintage, 1989). >> See resources

Week Thirteen: April 1 - April 7 [top]

Picart, "The Pre-Zarathustran Phase: Exca/Elevating the Mother," (RFNPA, pp. 41-48; 64-70)


Picart, "The Zarathustran Phase: The Phallic Mother" (RFNPA, pp. 83-101), Threaded Conversation 2

Supplementary Texts:
Debra Bergoffen, Review of Kay Picart’s Resentment and the Feminine in Nietzsche’sPolitico-Aesthetics, Hypatia 17:3 (2002): 268-270.

Larry Peer, Books Reviewed, Prism(s) 8 (2000).

Week Fourteen: April 10 - 14 [top]

Picart, "The Post-Zarathustran Phase: Emasculate Conception" (RFNPA, pp. 125-130; 139-142), Last Threaded Conversation


Foucault, "Truth and Power" (CTSP, pp. 1135-1145)

Supplementary Texts:
Kelly Oliver, Womanizing Nietzsche: Philosophy’s Relation to the Feminine (Routledge, 1995).

Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Trans. Alan Sheridan (Vintage, 1995). >> See resources

Week Fifteen: April 17 - 21 [top]

Bonus Threaded Conversation on Any of these Two, due by April 18, midnight (If you get a high score here, then your next lowest score will be dropped from the powerpoint quizzes or threaded conversations, since your lowest score is already going to be automatically dropped.)

Barthes, "Death of the Author" (CTSP, pp. 1127-1133)

Derrida, "Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" (CTSP, pp. 1117-1126)

Supplementary Texts:
Roland Barthes, S/Z, Trans. Richard Miller (Noonday Press, 1991).
>> See resources

Roland Barthes, Image, Music, Text, Trans. Stephen Heath (Noonday Press, 1978).

Jacques Derrida, Writing and Difference, Trans. Alan Bass (University of Chicago Press,1980). >> See resources

Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology, Trans. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Johns Hopkins, 1998).

Week Sixteen: April 24 - 28 [top]

Last Day of Class (April 27): SIRS/SUSSAI Evaluations and Self-Evaluations for Attendance and Participation; Class Party on the 25th; final papers are due by Friday, April 27th, 12 noon at Williams 405, the English department office. NO late papers will be accepted. Drafts must be returned together with the revised versions, with a cover page indicating a bibliography or "new" and "old" texts, and an abstract; changes made must be indicated using both boldfaced and underlined text.

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