COURSE SCHEDULE
1. Introduction: overview of the course
2. The Other (Emmanuel Lévinas)
- Emmanuel Lévinas, Totality and Infinity: an Essay on Exteriority. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1979 (fragments)
- ---, Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence . The Hague : Nijhoff, 1981 (fragments)
- ---, “The Trace of the Other,” in Deconstruction in Context. Literature and Philosophy, ed. by Mark C. Taylor. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1986: 345-359.
- Johannes Fabian, “The Other Revisited. Critical Afterthoughts.” Anthropological Theory , vol. 6, no 2, 2006: 139-152.
3. Counter-History as a Space of the Oppressed (Michel Foucault)
- Michel Foucault, “Seminar: 28 January 1976”, in his, Society Must Be Defended. Lectures at the College de France, 1975-1976 , transl. by David Macey. New York: Picador, 2003: 65-85.
- ---, “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History”, in his, Language, Counter-Memory, Practice. Selected Essays and Interviews, transl. by Donald F. Bouchard and Sherry Simon. Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 1977: 139-164.
- Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: the Birth of the Prison, transl. by Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage Books, 1995: 25-31 and chapter 1: “Docile Bodies”: 135-169.
- Charles Lamert and Gerth Gillan, Michel Foucault: Social Theory and Transgression. Columbia University Press, 1982 (chapter 3: “Power-Knowledge”: 57-91; chapter 4: “Limits and Social Theory”: 93-125 and “Appendix: Concepts Used by Foucault”: 128-138).
4. Locating the Other
- 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: 26-48.
- Donna Haraway, “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective.” Feminist Studies, vol. 14, no 3, 1988: 575-599.
- Marianne Janack, "Standpoint Epistemology Without the ' Standpoint'? An Examination of Epistemic Privilege and Epistemic Authority." Hypatia, vol. 12, no 2, Spring 1997: 125-139.
- bell hooks, "Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness," in The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader. Intellectual and Politics Conversations, ed. by Sandra Harding. New York and London: Routledge, 2004: 153-159.
- Jayati Lal, “Situating Locations: The Politics of Self, Identity and ‘Other' in Living and Writing the Text”, in Feminist Approach to Theory and Methodology. An Interdisciplinary Reader , ed. by Sharlene Hesse-Biber, Christina Gilmartin, Robin Lydenberg. New York, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999: 100-137.
- Rosi Braidotti, "Feminist Philosophies," in A Concise Companion to Feminist Theory , ed. by Mary Eagleton. Blackwell Publishing, 2003: 195-214.
- Sandra Harding, "Borderlands Epistemologies," in her, Is Science Multicultural? Postcolonialism, Feminism, and Epistemologies. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1998: 146-164.
5. The Face of the Other
- Silvia Benso, The Face of Things. A Different Side of Ethics . State University of New York Press , 2000 (fragments). [fragments published as: “Of Things Face-to Face with Levinas Face-to-Face with Heidegger. Prolegomena to a Metaphysical Ethics of Things”. Philosophy Today , vol. 40, no 1, Spring 1996.]
- Robert Burggraeve, "Violence and the Vulnerable Face of the Other." Journal of Social Philosophy , vol. 30, no 1, Spring 1999: 29-45.
- Renee van de Vall, “Touching the Face: The Ethics of Visuality between Levinas and a Rembrandt Self-Portraits,” in Compelling Visuality. The Work of Art in and out of History, ed. by Claire Farago and Robert Zwijnenberg. Minneapolis , London : University of Minnesota Press, 2003:
93-111.
- Ronald Bogue, "Faces," in his, Deleuze on Music, Painting, and the Arts. New York and London: Routledge, 2003: 79-110.
- David A. Barrowclough, “How Little Does it To Represent a Face?” Archaeological Review from Cambridge, vol. 19, no 1, 2004: 99-113.
6. Things as Others (Jean Baudrillard)
special guest: Ian Hodder
- Jean Baudrillard, The System of Objects. London, New York: Verso, 1996 (part B: "The Non-Functional System, or Subjective Discourse": 77-114).
- Ewa Domanska, "The Return to Things.” Archaeologia Polona, vol. 44, 2006: 17-31.
- Alex Preda, “The Turn to Things. Arguments for a Sociological Theory of Things.” The Sociological Quarterly , vol. 40, no 2, 1999: 347–366.
- Bjørnar Olsen, “Material Culture after Text: Re-Membering Things.” Norwegian Archaeological Review , vol. 36, no 3, 2003: 87-104.
- Gísli Pálsson, “Human-Environmental Relations: Orientalism, Paternalism and Communalism,” in Nature and Society , ed. by Philippe Descola and Gisli Pálsson. London and New York: Routledge, 1996: 65-81.
7. Agency of Things (Bruno Latour; Alfred Gell)
- Janet Hoskins, “Agency, Biography and Objects,” in Handbook of Material Culture, ed. by Christopher Tilley, Webb Keane, Susanne Küchler, Michael Rowlands and Patricia Spyer. London: Sage, 2006: 75-84.
- Bruno Latour, Reassembling the Social. An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory . Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005 (“Introduction” and “Third Source of Uncertainty: Objects too Have Agency”: 1-17; 63-86).
- Alfred Gell, Art and Agency. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998 (
chapters: 1, 2, 3 and 7: 1-50; 96-154).
- James G. Carrier, “Exchange,” in Handbook of Material Culture : 374-383.
- Lynn Meskell, Object Worlds in Ancient Egypt . Material Biographies Past and Present. Oxford, New York: Berg, 2004 (chapter 1 and 2: 13 -58).
8. A Gaze of Things (Jacques Lacan)
- Peter Schwenger, The Tears of Things, Melancholy and Physical Objects. Minneapolis, London: University of Minnesota Press, 2006 ("Introduction: The Melancholy Object of Art" and chapter II: "Painting and the Gaze of the Object": 1-17; 35-48).
- Jacques Lacan, “The Split Between the Eye and the Gaze”, in his, The Four Foundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis, transl. by Alan Sheridan. New York : Norton & Company, 1978: 67-119.
- W.J.T. Mitchell, "What Do Pictures Want?", in his, What do Pictures Want. The Lives and Loves of Images. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2005: 28-56.
- Evans Dylan, An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis. London; New York: Routledge, 1996.
9. The Other as Abject (Julia Kristeva)
special guest: Michael Shanks
- Julia Kristeva, “Approaching Abjection,” in her: Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, trans. Leon S. Roudiez. New York : Columbia University Press, 1982: 1-31.
- Jack Ben-Levi, Craig Houser, Leslie C. Jones, Simon Taylor, “Introduction,” and Simon Taylor, “The Phobic Object: Abjection in Contemporary Art,” in: Abject Art. Repulsion and Desire in American Art, exhibit catalog. New York : Whitney Museum of Modern Art, 1993: 7-15; 59-80.
- Barbara Creed, “Kristeva, Feminity, Abjection”, in: The Horror Reader, ed. By Ken Gelder. London and New York : Routledge, 2000: 64-70.
10. A Critique of Ideology of Victimization
- Slavoj Žižek, The Fragile Absolute. London, New York: Verso, 2000 (pp. 54-113).
- Alain Badiou, Ethics. An Essay on the Understanding of Evil, transl. by Peter Hallward. London, New York: Verso, 2002 ("Translator's introduction" and "Does the Other Exist?": vii-xlvi; 18-29).
- Zygmunt Bauman, Postmodern Ethics. Blackwell, 1993 (chapters 2-4: 37-109).
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