WGS Foundations I: Introduction to Women's Studies



GER 382N Intellectual History: Syllabus

"Fins de siècle 1800, 1900, 2000: 3 Modern Turns in Mythic National Cultures"

Fall, 2006 Unique #38965 TTH 1230 to 2p EPS 4.108

Week 1: 31 August

TH Introduction to the Course:

The Role of the Scholar in Cultural Studies

How to Work in Cultural Studies

Preliminary Lecture: The case of 2000 -- the historical moment in which you work

CASE I: 2000: Identity Politics, the Death of Nationalism, Globalization

Themes: post-reunification Germany, EU Europe, post-national subject

Sites for Examples: Berlin and reunified Germany's/unified Europe's public media sphere

WEEK 2: 5, 7 September

TU Huyssen, Presents Past, Chaps. 1-4, 8, 9

TH Boym, The Future of Nostalgia, Part 1, Part 2: Chaps. 7 & 10, Conclusion

WEEK 3: 12, 14 September

TU THEME: The New Identity Politics, and Nomad Feminism

Rosi Braidotti, Nomadic Subjects, Intro., Chaps. 1, 2, 4, 8

Précis due: Pick any chapter form the last two weeks

TH KATIE OUT OF TOWN: FILM SHOWING: Mostly Martha

WEEK 4: 19, 21 September

TU THEME: Globalization

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire, Parts 1 & 2, Intermezzo, and 4.3

---. Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire, Parts 1 & 2, 3.3

REC: Passavant and Dean, eds., Empire's New Clothes

-Passavant, "Introduction," 1-20

-Laclau, "Can Immanence Explain Social Struggle?," 21-30

-Fitzpatrick, "The Immanence of Empire, " 31-56

-Sassen, "The Repositioning of Citizenship,"175-198

-Zizek, "The Ideology of the Empire and Its Traps," 253-64

TH KATIE OUT OF TOWN: WORKING ON YOUR OWN PROJECTS AS GROUPS; email consultation

WEEK 5: 26, 28 September

TU EXAMPLE of National/Postnational discussion: Class Discussions on what there is to do in cultural studies in the 2000 contexts (we model the class presentations)

Mostly Martha

Christo, Wrapped Reichstag

also check news coverage on LEXIS-NEXIS

TH THEME: Death of Nationalism

Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Nomadology: The War Machine (all)

REC (but not to discuss): Kristeva, Nations without Nationalism

Précis due: Deleuze or Hardt/Negri (any chapter)

WEEK 6: 3, 5 October

TU Group Presentations

TH Group Presentations

CASE 2: 1900: Modernization, Industrialization, and the Rationalization of the Subject

WEEK 7: 10, 12 October

TU LECTURE INTRODUCTION:

The Case of Vienna and the Loss of Traditional Language

Freud, "The Dream-Work" from Interpretation of Dreams

---. Introduction to Psycho-Analysis (all)

Lacan, "Mirror Stage "

TH Theory for analysis (excerpts):

Benjamin, "Das Kunstwerk . . . / The Work of Art . . . " from Illuminations

---, "Exposés"

WEEK 8: 17, 19 October

TU KATIE OUT OF TOWN:

Film showing: Eyes Wide Shut

TH KATIE OUT OF TOWN:

Film showing: EWS, part II

WEEK 9: 24, 26 October

TU Agamben, State of Exception (all)

---, Homo Sacer (passim)

Précis due: Freud, Lacan, or Benjamin

TH Class Example:

Eyes Wide Shut and "Traumnovelle"/"Dream Story"

WEEK 10: 31 October, 2 November

TU Contemporaneous Archive: Sample Analyses

Schorske, "The Ringstrasse, Its Critics, and the Birth of Urban Modernism"

Hofmannsthal, "Ein Brief/ Letter of Lord Chandos" (note the mp3 on cd)

Arens, "Hofmannsthal's Essays: Conservation as Revolution"

TH Group Presentations

WEEK 11: 7, 9 November

TU Group Presentations

Case 3: The Problem of 1800: Weimar, Königsberg, Jena, and Heidelberg

TH Themes for lecture: historical reconstruction, understanding, Napoleon as world-historical individual, Volksgeist, Nationalgeist, Bildung

Abstract and Research Plan due

WEEK 12: 14, 16 November

TU Theme: Performing the Nation

Marchand, Down from Olympus, Chapters 1, 2, 3

Sheehan, Museums in the German Art World, Chapters 1, 2

TH Schama, Landscape and Memory, Part 1: Wood, Chapters 1 & 2

Kenneth E. Foote, Shadowed Ground, Chaps. 1, 7, 8, 9, and new afterword

WEEK 13: 21 November (23 = Thanksgiving)

TU Hobsbawm and Ranger, Invention of Tradition (kilt essay)

Williamson, The Longing for Myth in Germany, Introduction, Chaps. 1, 2, & 6

Said, "Introduction" to Orientalism

Précis due: any chapter in the section

WEEK 14: 28, 30 November

TU GROUP PROJECT: Carlyle, Sartor Resartus

TH Group Project, continued.

WEEK 15: 5, 7 December

TU Class Symposium

TH Class Symposium, continued

Final Paper Due: Sat. 16 Dec., 5pm (official exam date)

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