COURSE SCHEDULE
April 5
1. Introduction: overview of the course
April 12 [themes .doc]
2. Theory of knowledge (borderland epistemology, subjectivity, standpoint theory)
- Rosi Braidotti, "Feminist Philosophies", in A Concise Companion to Feminist Theory , ed. by Mary Eagleton. Blackwell Publishing, 2003.
- Sandra Harding, Is Science Multicultural? Postcolonialism, Feminism, and Epistemologies . Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 1998 (chapters: 1: "A Role of Postcolonial Histories of Science in Theories of Knowledge? Conceptual Shifts"; 9: "Borderlands Epistemologies")
- Feminist Epistemologies, ed. by Linda Alcoff and Elizabeth Potter. New York and London: Routledge, 1993 (chapters: Linda Alcoff and Elizabeth Potter, "Introduction: When Feminisms Intersects Epistemology"; Lorraine Code "Taking Subjectivity into Account")
- Alison Wylie, "Why Standpoint Matters," in Science and Other Cultures. Issues in Philosophy of Science and Technology, ed. by Robert Figueroa and Sandra Harding. New York and London: Routledge, 2003.
April 19
3. Psychoanalytical approach to the past (reparation)
- Melanie Klein, „Love, Hate and Reparation”, in Melanie Klein and Joan Riviere, Love, Hate and Reparation. New York and London: Norton, 1964.
- C. Fred Alford, Melanie Klein and Critical Social Theory: An Account of Politics, Art, and Reason Based on Her Psychoanalytic Theory. Yale University Press, 1989 (fragments)
- Margaret Urban Walker , “Moral Repair and its Limits,” in Mapping the Ethical Turn: A Reader in Ethics, Culture, and Literary Theory , ed. Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2001.
- Hanna Segal, „Art and Depressive Position”, in her, Dream, Phantasy and Art. London , New York: Routledge, 1991.
- R. D. Hinshelwood, A Dictionary of Kleinian Thought. London : Free Association Books, 1989.
April 26
4. Female subjectivity (abject)
special guest: Hayden White
- Julia Kristeva, “Approaching Abjection,” in her: Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection , trans. Leon S. Roudiez. New York : Columbia University Press, 1982.
- Jack Ben-Levi, Craig Houser, Leslie C. Jones, Simon Taylor, “Introduction,” in: Abject Art. Repulsion and Desire in American Art, exhibit catalog. New York : Whitney Museum of Modern Art, 1993.
- Barbara Creed, “Kristeva, Feminity, Abjection”. Fragments published in: The Horror Reader, ed. by Ken Gelder. London and New York : Routledge, 2000.
- Elizabeth Grosz, “The Body of Signification”, in: Abjection, Melancholia, and Love. The Work of Julia Kristeva, ed. by John Fletcher and Andrew Benjamin. London and New York : Routledge, 1990.
- Bulent Diken and Cartsten Bagge Laustsen, "Becoming Abject: Rape as a Weapon of War." Body & Society, vol. 11, no 1, 2005: 111–128 (.pdf)
May 3
5. Women's writing
- Hélène Cixous, "The Laugh of the Medusa," transl. Keith Cohen and Paula Cohen. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society , vol. 1, no 4, 1976 (in French: "Le rire de la Meduse." L'Arc , no 61, 1975).
- Rainer Mack, "Facing Down Medusa (An Aetiology of the Gaze)." Art History, vol. 25, no 5, November 2002: 571-604 (.pdf)
- Beth J. Seelig, "The rape of Medusa in the Temple of Athena - Aspects of triangulation in the girl." International Journal of Psychoanalysis, vol. 83, no. 4, August 2002: 895-911.
May 10
6-7. Narrating the past (emotive knowledge, empathy, sincerity)
- Kathleen Lundeen, "Who Has the Right to Feel? The Ethics of Literary Empathy," in Mapping the Ethical Turn: A Reader in Ethics, Culture, and Literary Theory , ed. Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2001.
- Alberto López Pulido, „Engraving Emotions. Memory and Identity in the Quest for Emotive Scholarship.” CrossCurrents, Summer 2004 (.pdf)
- Lionel Trilling, Sincerity and Authenticity. Cambridge , Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1972 (fragments).
- Marjorie Becker, „Talking Back to Frida: Houses of Emotional Mestizaje.” History and Theory, vol. 41, December 2002 (.pdf)
May 17
- Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands. The New Mestiza. La Frontiera. The New Mestiza. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1999.
- Debra A. Castillo, "Anzaldúa and Transnational American Studies." PMLA , vol. 121, no 1, January 2006: 260-265.
- Theresa A. Martinez, "Making Oppositional Culture, Making Standpoint: A Journey into Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands." Sociological Spectrum, vol. 25, 2005: 539–570 (.pdf)
- Cindy Cruz, "Toward an epistemology of a brown body." Qualitative Studies in Education, vol. 14, no 5, 2001: 657- 669 (.pdf)
- Richard Shusterman, "Somaesthetics: A Disciplinary Proposal." The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 57, no 3, Summer 1999: 299-313 (.pdf)
May 24
8-9. Materializing the Past
• Bjørnar Olsen, “Material Culture after Text: Re-Membering Things.” Norwegian Archaeological Review , vol. 36, no 3, 2003 (.pdf)
• Bill Brown, "Thing Theory". Critical Inquiry, vol. 28, no 1, Autumn 2001 (published also in: Things, ed. by Bill Brown. Chicago and London : The University of Chicago Press, 2004) (.pdf)
• Silvia Benso, The Face of Things. A Different Side of Ethics. State University of New York Press , 2000 (fragments).
May 31
special guest: Lynn Meskell
June 7
10. Women's ethics (caring and ambiguity)
- Elizabeth Porter, "Feminist Ethics," in her, Feminist Perspectives on Ethics. London and New York : Longman, 1999.
- Daryl Koehn, "An Ethics of Care," in her, Rethinking Feminist Ethics: Care, Trust and Empathy. London and New York: Routledge, 1998.
- Nel Noddings, Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education . University of California Press, 2003 (Introduction, chapter 4: "An Ethic of Caring", chapter 7: "Caring for Animals, Plants, Things and Ideas.")
- Chris Beasley and Carol Bacchi, "The Political Limits of 'Care' in Re-imagining Interconnection/Community and an Ethical Future." Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 20, no 46, March 2005: 49-64.
- Simmone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity , transl. Bernadr Frechtman. Citadel Press, 1948.
- Ruth E. Groenhout, "Levinas and Care Theory," in her, Connected Lives: Human Nature and an Ethics of Care. Lanham, Boulder, etc: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2004.
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