Ideology and Justice
Ideology and Justice
Ethics, Politics, &Economics 453a (70453)
W: 1:30-3:20
Syllabus
We will read the assigned materials in roughly this order, although we may not get through a single topic in each class. If time allows, I will assign additional xeroxed supplemental materials.
1. Marx and the Classical Tradition
a. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “Selected Texts,” in Terry Eagleton, ed, Ideology, pp. 23-30
b. Raymond Williams, “Ideology,” Eagleton, ed., pp. 175-189
2. Historicism and Class Consciousness
a. Georg Lukacs, “History and Class Consciousness,” Eagleton, pp. 31-49
b. Karl Mannheim, “Ideology and Utopia,” Eagleton, pp. 50-68
3. Neutral and Pejorative Conceptions of Ideology
a. Raymond Geuss, “Ideology,” Eagleton, pp. 260-278
b. J.M. Balkin, Cultural Software, Chapters 5-7
4. Althusser and the Construction of Subjects
a. Louis Althusser, “Selected Texts,” Eagleton, pp. 87-111
b. Paul Hirst, “Problems and Advances in the Theory of Ideology,” Eagleton, pp. 112-125
5. Ideology and Cultural Evolution
a. J.M. Balkin, Cultural Software, Chapters 1-4
6. Psychological Theories of Ideology
a. Jon Elster, “Belief, Bias and Ideology,” Eagleton, pp. 238-255
b. J.M. Balkin, Cultural Software, Chapter 8.
7. Cultural and Semiotic Theories of Ideology
b. Roland Barthes, “Myth Today,” Eagleton, pp. 162-172
c. Clifford Geertz, “Ideology as a Cultural System,” Eagleton, pp. 279-294
d. J.M. Balkin, Cultural Software, Chapters 9-11
8. Nietzsche’s Critique of Morality
All selections are from Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality.
a. First Essay, pp. 3-37
b. Second Essay, pp. 38-71
c. Third Essay, pp. 72-128
9. Michel Foucault
All selections are from The Foucault Reader, Paul Rabinow, ed.
a. “Truth and Power,” pp. 51-75
b. “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History,” pp. 76-100
10. Michel Foucault
All selections are from The Foucault Reader, Paul Rabinow, ed.
a. Selections from Discipline and Punish, pp. 170-238
b. Selections from The History of Sexuality, Vol. I and Power/Knowledge, pp. 258-329
11. Feminist Critiques of Equality and Pornography
a. Catharine MacKinnon, Feminism Unmodified, pp. 32-62, 146-97
12. Scripts and Performance
a. Sharon Marcus, Fighting Bodies, “Fighting Words, A Theory and Politics of Rape Prevention,” in Feminists Theorize the Political, Judith Butler and Joan W. Scott, eds., supplemental materials, pp. 385-403
13. Religious Liberty and Public Education
a. Wisconsin v. Yoder, supplemental materials
b. Mozert v. Hawkins County Board of Education, supplemental materials
c. Stanley Fish, “Mission Impossible: Settling the Just Bounds Between Church and State,” supplemental materials
14. Ideology and the Idea of Universal Human Rights
supplemental materials (to be announced)