COURSE SCHEDULE
1. Introduction: overview of the course
2. The Posthuman Future
- Francis Fukuyama, Our Posthuman Future. Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
- Jürgen Habermas, The Future of Human Nature , trans. by Hella Beister and William Rehg. Polity Press, 2003.
- Henryk Skolimowski, “Problems of rationality in biology,” in Studies in the Philosophy of Biology , ed. by Francisco Jose Ayala and Theodosius Dobzhansky . Berkeley : University of California Press, 1974.
- 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.
3. From Society to Collective of the Human and Non-Human (Bruno Latour)
- Bruno Latour , “When Things Strike Back: A Possible Contribution of ‘Science Studies' to the Social Sciences.” The British Journal of Sociology , vol. 51, no 1, January/March 2000:107-123.
- Bruno Latour, Reassembling the Social. An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory . Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005 (“Introduction”, “Third Source of Uncertainty: Objects too Have Agency” and „Conclusion”: 1-17; 63-86; 247-262).
- Bruno Latour, „Do Scientific Objects Have a History? Pasteur and Whitehead in a Bath of Lactic Acid”. Common Knowledge , vol. 5, no 1, 1993: 76-91.
- Bruno Latour, “A Collective of Humans and Nonhumans. Following Daedalus's Labirynth”, in his, Pandora's Hope. Essays on the Reality of Science Studies . Cambridge Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 1999: 174-215.
- Bruno Latour, “How to Bring the Collective Together”, in his, Politics of Nature. How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy . Cambridge , Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004: 53-90.
4. Technology, Science and the Social (Andrew Pickering)
- Andrew Pickering, “ After Representation: Science Studies in the Performative Idiom”. PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association , vol. 2 (Symposia and Invited Papers), 1994: 413-419.
- Daniel Breslau, “Sociology After Humanism: A Lesson from Contemporary Science Studies”. Sociological Theory , vol. 18, no. 2, 2000: 289-307 [and discussion: Andrew Pickering, “The Objects of Sociology: A Response to Breslau 's ‘Sociology After Humanism,” ibidem: 308-316; Daniel Breslau, “Forbid the Forbidding: A Rejoinder to Andrew Pickiering,” ibidem: 317-319]
- Andrew Pickering, “The Mangle of Practice: Agency and Emergence in the Sociology of Science.” The American Journal of Sociology , vol. 99, no. 3, November 1993: 559-589.
- Mark Peter Jones, “Posthuman Agency: Between Theoretical Traditions”. Sociological Theory , vol. 14. no. 3, November 1996: 290-309.
- Andrew Pickering, “Decentering Sociology: Synthetic Dyes and Social Theory.” Perspectives on Science , vol. 13, no. 3, 2005: 352-405.
5. Zoe as Non-Human Life (Rosi Braidotti)
- Rosi Braidotti, Transpositions. On Nomadic Ethics . Cambridge : Polity Press 2006 (fragments).
- Rosi Braidotti, “Met(r)amorphoses: becoming Woman/Animal/Insect,” in her, Metamorphoses. Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming. Cambridge : Polity Press, 2002: 117-171.
6. The “Anthropological Machine” (Giorgio Agamben)
- Giorgio Agamben, The Open. Man and Animal , trans. by Kevin Attell. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004.
- Jacques Derrida, “'Eating Well' or the Calculation of the Subject: An Interview with Jacques Derrida,” in Who Comes After the Subject? ed. by. Nancy and Connor. New York: Routledge, 1991: 96-119.
- Cary Wolfe, “In the Shadow of Wittgenstein Lion: Language, Ethics,” in Zoontologies. The Question of the Animal , ed. by Cary Wolfe. Minneapolis , London : University of Minnesota Press, 2003: 1-57.
7. Non-Human Significant Otherness (Donna Haraway)
- Donna Haraway, The Companion Species Manifesto. Dogs, People and Significan Otherness. Chicago : Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003.
- Donna Haraway, The Haraway Reader . New York and London : Routledge, 2004 (fragments).
- Rosi Braidottti, “Posthuman, All Too Human. Toward a New Process Ontology.” Theory, Culture and Society , vol. 23, no. 7-8, 2006: 197-208.
8. Humanist Ethics and the Animal (Emmanuel Levinas)
- Emmanuel Levinas, “The Name of a Dog, or Natural Rights” and Peter Atterton, “Ethical Cyncism”, in Animail Philosophy. Essential Readings in Continental Thought , ed. by Matthew Calarco and Peter Atterton. London : continuum, 2006: 47-61.
- John Llewelyn, “Am I Obsessed by Bobby? (Humanism of the Other Animal),” in: Re-Reading Levinas , ed. by Robert Bernasconi and Simon Critchley. Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 1991: 234-245.
- David Clark, “On Being ‘The Last Kantian in Nazi Germany '. Dwelling with Animals after Levinas,” in Animal Acts: Configuring the Human in Western History , ed. by Jennifer Ham and Matthew Senior. New York : Routledge, 1997: 165-198.
- Barbara Jane Davy, “An Other Face of Ethics in Levinas.” Ethics and the Environment , vol. 12, no. 1, 2007: 39-65.
9. Animals and the Holocaust
- David Sztybel, “Can the Treatment of Animals be Compared to the Holocaust.” Ethics and Environment , vol. 11, no. 1, 2006: 97-132.
- Nathan Sanza, “(Im)possible Witness: Viewing PETA'a ‘Holocaust on Your Plate.” Animal Liberation Philosophy and Policy Journal , vol. 2, no. 1, 2004: 1-20.
- Marjorie Spiegel, The Dreader Comparison: Human and Animal Slaver. Mirror Books, 1997.
- Giorgio Agamben, Remnants of Auschwitz. The Witness and the Archive. New York: Zone Books, 1999 (fragments).
10. Transhumanism (Nick Bostrom)
- Nick Bostrom, “A History of Transhumanist Thought.” Journal of Evolution and Technology , vol. 14, no. 1, 2005: 1-25.
- Nick Bostrom, „Transhumanist Values.” Review of Contemporary Philosophy , vol. 4, May 2005: 87-101.
- Nick Bostrom, “In Defence of Posthuman Dignity." Bioethics, vol. 19, no. 3, 2005: 202-214.
- Nicholas Agar, “Whereto Transhumanism? The Literature Reaches a Critical Mass.” Hastings Center Report , vol. 3, no. 3, 2007: 12-17.
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