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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