Draft Week by Week Course Outline
Sept. 4: Intro to seminar. No assigned reading
Sept. 11: Marx,
Communist Manifesto, Capital Chapter 1
Sept. 18: Marx.
Capital,
Chapters 2-6
Sept. 25: Marx, Capital, Chapters 7-10
Oct. 2: Durkheim,
Suicide, Preface, Introduction, Book
III, Chapter 1
Max Weber, Economy and Society, Part One, Chapters
I and III, i-v
Oct. 9: Weber,
Economy and Society, Part Two,
Chapter XI
Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, begin
Oct. 16: Weber, The Protestant Ethic finish Oct. 23: Karl Mannheim, Ideology and Utopia, Parts I, II Oct. 30: Mannheim, Part IV, Edwin Wilmsen, Land Filled With Flies, Chapters 1-2.
Nov. 13: Wilmsen, Chapters 3-5 Nov. 20: Wilmsen, Chapters 6-7
Nov. 27: Charles Mills, The Racial Contract Dec. 4: Martha
Nussbaum, Sex and Social Justice, excerpts
Written work: Short
paper, due Oct. 9
Final
paper, Dec. 14
5 comments:
It sounds great!
I wish I could be there to bother you with my sophomoric questions.
You're making me want to go back to college (again). Though maybe I could start by actually reading the few of those listed books I already own :-(
I understand it may have something to do with the over-all thrust of your course, but could you offer a brief word on why the reading and discussion of Wilmsen’s book—a book I’m completely unfamiliar with—takes up such a large part of it? Best wishes for your enterprise.
Robin McDugald,
Take a look at these lectures on Ideological Critique, and you'll find a explanation of Wilmensen's book. Here's the first lecture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbU3yW2xIGE
Thank you.
Bucket list material.
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