ENG3014 | Summer Calendar 2007-C

Acronyms of Books:

Classic and Medieval Origins

Week One: June 26[top]

Week 1, Tuesday (June 26 - 28)

General Introduction: What is Critical Theory?
Texts and Contexts, Chapters 1-4

Supplementary Text: Introduction to Everyday Theory, Chapter 1 Introduction to Class Policies and Requirements for the Course
Plato, "The Republic" (IP, pp. 21-35) and "The Ion" (CTSP, pp. 12-17) (CTSP 3rd Ed. pp. 10-16),
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).

Suggested Films: Troy, 300 Week 1, Thursday (June 28)
Plato, "The Republic," Books II, III, X (CTSP, pp. 18-37)(CTSP 3rd Ed. pp. 16-36), Quiz on Plato
Aristotle, "Poetics" (CTSP, pp. 50-66) (CTSP 3rd Ed. pp. 52-69).

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

Week Two: July 3 - 5[top]

Week 2, Tuesday (July 3)
St. Augustine, "Confessions" (IP, pp. 49-54),
Quiz on St. Augustine

St. Augustine, "Books One and Two" (CTSP, pp. 108-113) (CTSP 3rd Ed. pp. 141-146)
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

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)(CTSP 3rd Ed. pp. 154-156)

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

Week 2, Thursday (July 5)
Any Catching Up, Review and Exam
Viewing of the Matrix or Mindwalk to be arranged; you may make alternative arrangements to view these films.

Week Three: July 10 - 12 [top]

Week 3, Tuesday (July 10)

Faces of the Modern

Student Reports Begin.
Final Paper Questions Made Available.

Bacon, "Aphorisms: Book I" (IP, pp. 72-79)
Bacon, "The Advancement of Learning," (CTSP, pp. 183-184) (CTSP 3rd Ed. pp. 235-236),
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

Week 3, Thursday (July 12)
Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method, and Meditations on First Philosophy, Trans. Donald Cress (Hackett, 1999). >> See resources

Burke, "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful," (CTSP, pp. 299-306) (CTSP 3rd Ed. pp. 333-346) Quiz on Burke


Kant, "Critique of Judgment" (CTSP, pp. 376-393) (CTSP 3rd Ed. pp. 419-440), 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 Four: July 17 - 19 [top]

Week 4, Tuesday (July 17)
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

Wollestonecraft, "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman," Quiz on Wollestonecraft
(CTSP, pp. 395-399) (CTSP 3rd. Ed pp. 442-446)


Schopenhauer, "The World as Will and Idea,"
(CTSP, pp. 496-507) (Not in CTSP 3rd Ed. Posted on Blackboard, under Course Library) 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).

Drafts are due on July 19; (possible bonus activity)

Week 4, Thursday (July 19)
Hegel, "The Philosophy of Fine Art," (CTSP, pp. 534-545) (CTSP 3rd Ed. pp. 553-561)

Marx, "The German Ideology" and "Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy" (CTSP, pp. 624-627) (CTSP 3rd Ed. pp. 614-616)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 Five: July 24 - 26 [top]

Week 5, Tuesday (July 24)
Nietzsche, "The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music"
and "Truth and Falsity in an Ultramoral Sense" (CTSP, pp. 629-639) (CTSP 3rd Ed. pp. 687-697)
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 5, Thursday (July 26)
Freud, "Creative Writers and Daydreaming" (CTSP, p. 717) (Not in CTSP 3rd Ed. Posted on Blackboard) and "Psychoanalysis in Culture" (IP, pp. 90-98)

de Beauvoir, "The Second Sex" (CTSP, pp. 994-1000) (Not in CTSP 3rd Ed. Posted on Blackboard), 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).

Texts and Contexts, Chapter 7

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

Week 5B, Thursday (July 26)

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

Picart, "The Zarathustran Phase: The Phallic Mother" (RFNPA, pp. 83-101; available on reserve and also on Blackboard), 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 Six: July 31 - August 2 [top]

Week 6, Tuesday (July 31)
Picart, "The Post-Zarathustran Phase: Emasculate Conception" (RFNPA, pp. 125-130; 139-142; available on reserve and also on Blackboard), Last Threaded Conversation

Foucault, "Truth and Power" (CTSP, pp. 1135-1145) (CTSP 3rd Ed. pp. 1269-1279)

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

Possible Film: Derrida

Bonus Threaded Conversation on Any of these Two, due by July 31, 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.)

Week 6: Thursday (August 2)
Barthes, "Death of the Author" (CTSP, pp. 1127-1133) (CTSP 3rd Ed. pp. 1256-1258)

Derrida, "Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" (CTSP, pp. 1117-1126) (CTSP 3rd Ed. pp. 1206-1215)

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).

Texts and Contexts, Chapters 5-6

Introduction to Everyday Theory, sections on Derrida and Foucault

Last Day of Class (August 2): SPOT evaluations and Self-Evaluations for Attendance and Participation; Class Party and final papers are due on the last day we meet. 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.