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-342900-9144000002905125Hegel, Marx and Dialectical Thought00Hegel, Marx and Dialectical ThoughtPPE2001Semester 2 (2017/18)Check your timetable for time and room detailsAssessments10 May: EssayModule LeaderDr Marika Rose marika.rose@winchester.ac.ukOffice hours: MC201Tuesday 15:00–17:00With the publication of Phenomenology of Spirit in 1807, Hegel offered the world a radically different image of what was truly at stake in the historical development of philosophical thought, politics, art and religion through enacting a fundamental break with the system of logic first defined by Aristotle. The new understanding of history and progress that dialectical thought offered might seem arcane and mysterious, yet it proved itself incredibly powerful in offering new ways of seeing what was going on in our culture. Perhaps the most famous inheritor of Hegel’s method was Karl Marx, who claimed to be turning the dialectical method on its head with his materialist account of the inevitable coming of communism. In this module we will investigate how dialectical thought works, paying particular attention to those thinkers who have used it to understand political and economic development. LEARNING OUTCOMESBy the conclusion of this two-semester module a student will be expected to be able to: show a critical understanding of what is distinctive about dialectical thought in its idealist and materialist forms;engage with significant primary texts by Hegel, Marx and/or other major figures who made use of the dialectical method;relate philosophical material to political and economic thought.ASSESSMENTSREFERENCES in your Assessments must be formatted in FOOTNOTE format and a BIBLIOGRAPHY must be included. Instructions for this format can be found in the Programme Handbook. This assessment will be supported by formative work in class (in the form of teaching and discussion on key concepts and the assigned reading) and outside of class (in the form of the required reading you will be set for each week of the course).Assessment 1Due: 10/05/18 (Thursday of Assessment Period, Week 1)Assessment Type: EssayWord Length: 4,000Percentage: 100Answer one of the following questions:Is it accurate to describe the difference between Hegel and Marx as the difference between idealism and materialism?Can Marxism and feminism be reconciled? What is the relationship between a society’s culture and its means of production?How can dialectics – as understood by one or more of the thinkers we have studied this semester -- help us to understand the relationship between philosophy and the particular historical context in which it is produced?Can Marxism adequately account for the role of racism in the formation of the modern world?Pick TWO thinkers we have studied during the course. Compare and contrast their discussion of one of the following themes: a) dialectics; b) gender; c) racism; d) history; e) workCHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE. If you would like to write your essay on a topic other than those set out in the questions above, you are free to do so on the condition that you a) pick a topic that will enable to you to meet the learning outcomes and b) get my approval for your chosen essay topic before you submit the essay. I’m really happy to talk over ideas with you and suggest readings etc. but you MUST get in touch with me before you submit your final essay.Due date for assessment to be returned to student with feedback: 02/07/18NB: ALL WRITTEN ASSESSMENTS SHOULD BE SUBMITTED ONLINE VIA THE MODULE PAGE. Instructions on how to submit via the Module Page are available on the TRE/PRE Homepage and in the Programme Handbook. Marking criteria can also be found, listed by level, in the Programme Handbook.LECTURE OVERVIEWWEEK 1: Introducing Hegel and DialecticsWEEK 2: The Master/Slave DialecticWEEK 3: Hegel in ContextWEEK 4: Hegel and RecognitionWEEK 5: Dialectical Materialism?WEEK 6: Marx and AlienationWEEK 7: ENRICHMENT WEEKWEEK 8: Social ReproductionWEEK 9: Critical TheoryWEEK 10: Marxist FeminismWEEK 11: Black MarxismWEEK 12: Essay WorkshopTOPIC LISTWEEK 1: Introducing Hegel and DialecticsIn this session we will introduce Hegel and his central notion of dialectics, via the work of Stephen Houlgate, one of the foremost contemporary scholars of Hegel, and Vladimir Lenin, whose Marxist understanding of dialectics helped him to shape the history of the twentieth century.Required ReadingStephen Houlgate, ‘History and Truth’ in Freedom, Truth and History: An Introduction to Hegel (Malden: Blackwell, 2005), 4-25.Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, ‘Summary of Dialectics’ ReadingBeiser, Frederick C, The Cambridge Companion to Hegel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).WEEK 2: The Master/Slave DialecticIn this session we will explore Hegel’s Master/Slave dialectic through the work of Alexander Kojève, whose work on Hegel was profoundly influential for twentieth century continental philosophy.Required ReadingAlexander Kojève, ‘In Place of an Introduction’ in Introduction to the Reading of Hegel, translated by James H Nichols, Jr (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1969), 1-30.Further ReadingG W F Hegel, ‘Independence and dependence of self-consciousness: lordship and bondage’ in Phenomenology of Spirit (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979), 111-119.Charles Taylor, Hegel and Modern Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.WEEK 3: Hegel in ContextIn this session we will consider the ways in which Hegel’s thought was shaped by his historical context, and specifically by the French and Haitian revolutions. Required ReadingSusan Buck-Morss, ‘Hegel and Haiti’ in Critical Inquiry 26.4 (2000), 821-865.Further ReadingRebecca Comay, Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution (Stanford: Stanford Universiy Press, 2011).Susan Buck-Morss, Hegel, Haiti and Universal History (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009).Domenico Losurdo, Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004).WEEK 4: Hegel and RecognitionIn this session we will explore Hegel’s account of recognition through two responses to his work: that of Judith Butler, a founding figure of queer theory, who takes Hegel’s work as a useful resource for thinking about gender and sexuality; and Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist and revolutionary who explores Hegel’s Master/Slave dialectic in the context of colonial Algeria.Required ReadingJudith Butler, ‘Bodily Paradoxes: Lordship and Bondage’ in Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987), 43-59.Frantz Fanon, ‘The Negro and Recognition’ in Black Skin, White Masks (New York: Grove Press, 1967), 210-222.Further ReadingRobert R Williams, Recognition: Fichte and Hegel on the Other (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992). Jeffrey A Gauthier, Hegel and feminist social criticism: justice, recognition and the feminine (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997).Rocío Zambrana, ‘Hegel, History and Race’ in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race edited by Naomi Zack (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), 251-260.WEEK 5: Dialectical Materialism?In this session we will explore the work of Slavoj ?i?ek, ‘the Elvis of cultural theory’, who reads of Hegel alongside the psychoanalyst Lacan in order to provide a philosophical account of pretty much everything from the basic structure of reality as such to Kung Fu Panda. Required ReadingSlavoj ?i?ek, ‘Hegel’s “Logic of Essence” as a Theory of Ideology’ in Tarrying With the Negative: Kant, Hegel and the Critique of Ideology (Durham: Duke University Press, 1993), 125-160.Further ReadingSarah Kay, ?i?ek: A Critical Introduction (Cambridge: Polity, 2003).Kelsey Wood, ?i?ek: A Reader’s Guide (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).WEEK 6: Marx and AlienationIn this session we will explore Marx’s concept of ‘alienation’. Why do so many workers hate the work they do? Why have more recent capitalist societies come to focus on the idea that when you work you should be able to ‘do what you love’? Required ReadingKarl Marx, ‘Estranged Labour’ from Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, ‘Bifo’ Berardi, ‘The Soul at Work’ in Soul At Work: From Alienation to Autonomy, translated by Francesca Cadel and Giuseppina Mecchia (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2009), 92-105.Further ReadingSean Sayers, Marx and Alienation: Essays on Hegelian Themes (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2001).Bertell Ollman, Alienation: Marx’s Conception of Man in Capitalist Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976).Emma Dowling, ‘What a Way to Make a Living’ in New Humanist, 2015, Emma Dowling, ‘Love’s Labour’s Cost: The Political Economy of Intimacy’, Verso Books Blog, 13 February 2016, WEEK 7: ENRICHMENT WEEK: No LectureWEEK 8: Social ReproductionIn this session we will explore the concept of ‘social reproduction’. How are the existing social, cultural, human and financial arrangements of society transmitted from one generation to the next? Required ReadingKarl Marx, ‘Simple Reproduction’ in Capital Volume 2 (London: Penguin, 1978), 468-497.Nancy Fraser, ‘Contradictions of Capital and Care’ in New Left Review 100 (2016), ReadingSophie Lewis, ‘On the Future Genealogy of the Date’ in Blind Field Journal 2.1 (2016), Tithi Bhattacharya, Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentring Oppression (London: Pluto Press, 2017).WEEK 9: Critical TheoryIn this session we will look at some of the key thinkers of the neo-Marxist Frankfurt School of thought, which emerged in Germany in the 1930s. How can Marx’s thought help to make sense of the world in the second half of the twentieth century, after the rise of Nazism and the Soviet Union? Why does capitalism persist?Required ReadingHerbert Marcuse, ‘The New Forms of Control’ in One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (London: Routledge, 2002), 3-20.Max Horkheimer, ‘Means and Ends’ in Eclipse of Reason (London: Bloomsbury, 2013), 1-40.Further ReadingDavid Held, Introduction to Critical Theory: Horkheimer to Habermas (Cambridge: Polity, 1980).Fred Rush, The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).WEEK 10: Marxist FeminismIn this session we will explore some key thinkers who have discussed the relationship between Marxism and feminism. What is the relationship between class oppression and the subordination of women, and how might Marxist and feminist thought be brought together?Required ReadingHeidi I Hartmann, ‘The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More Progressive Union’ in Capital & Class 3.2 (1979), 1-33.Iris Marion Young, ‘Beyond the Unhappy Marriage: A Critique of Dual Systems Theory’ in L Sargent (ed), Women and Revolution: A Discussion of the Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism (Boston: South End Press, 1981), 43-69.Further ReadingCinzia Arruzza, Dangerous Liaisons: The Marriages and Divorces of Marxism and Feminism (Merlin Press, 2013).Heather Brown, Marx on Gender and the Family: A Critical Study (Haymarket Books, 2013).WEEK 11: Black MarxismIn this session we will explore some debates about the relationship between Marxism and questions of race, exploring some key black thinkers who have argued that Marxist analyses of capitalism have failed to take seriously the role and significance of racism, slavery, colonialism and antiblackness in shaping the modern world.Required ReadingCedric Williams, ‘Introduction’ and ‘An Ending’ in Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000), 1-5, 307-318.Frank Wilderson, ‘Afro-pessimism and the End of Redemption’ in base publication, 30 March 2016, Further ReadingFrank Wilderson, ‘Gramsci’s Black Marx: Whither the Slave in Civil Society?’ in Social Identities 9.2 (2003), 225-240.Cedric Robinson, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000).Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1944).WEEK 12: Essay WorkshopIn this session we will focus on developing and discussing your ideas for your summative essays, and will discuss some strategies for planning, writing, and editing your essays. ................
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