Ideology, Discourse, and Law
Ideology, Discourse, and Law
Spring Semester 1999
Syllabus
Assigned Readings:
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Ideology, Terry Eagleton, ed. (Longman 1994).
- Catharine A. MacKinnon, Toward A Feminist Theory of the State (Harvard Univ. Press 1989).
- Pierre Bourdieu, Language and Symbolic Power (Harvard Univ. Press 1994)
- The Foucault Reader, Paul Rabinow, ed. (Pantheon 1984)
- J.M. Balkin, Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology (Yale Univ. Press 1998)
- Duncan Kennedy: A Critique of Adjudication (fin de siècle) (Harvard Univ. Press 1997).
There will also readings from a set of xeroxed Supplemental Materials.
Part I. Ideology and Discourse
Week I. Marx and the Classical Tradition
a. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “Selected Texts,” in Ideology, Terry Eagleton, ed., pp. 23-30
b. Karl Mannheim, “Ideology and Utopia,” in Eagleton, pp. 50-68
c. Antonio Gramsci, “The Intellectuals,” from Selections From The Prison Notebooks, Supplemental Materials
d. Jon Elster, “Belief, Bias, and Ideology,” in Eagleton, pp. 238-255
Week II. The Marxist Model and Feminism
Catharine MacKinnon, Toward a Feminist Theory of the State
Week III. Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu, Language and Symbolic Power
Week IV. Althusser and Foucault
a. Louis Althusser, “Selected Texts,” in Eagleton, pp. 87-111
b. Paul Hirst, “Problems and Advances in the Theory of Ideology,” in Eagleton, pp. 112-125
c. “Truth and Power,” pp. 51-75, in The Foucault Reader, Paul Rabinow, ed.
d. Selections from Discipline and Punish, in Rabinow, pp. 170-238
Week V. Foucault
Selections from The History of Sexuality, Vols I and II, Power/Knowledge, and interviews, pp. 258-390, in The Foucault Reader, Paul Rabinow, ed.
Week VI. Cultural Software and Memetic Evolution
J.M. Balkin, Cultural Software, pp. 1-170
Week VII. Ideological Effects of Cultural Software
J.M. Balkin, Cultural Software, pp. 173-294
Part II. Law
Week VIII. Law and Society
a. Alan Hunt, On Legal Relations and Economic Relations: A Critique of G.A. Cohen, Supplemental Materials
b. Robert Gordon, Critical Legal Histories, Supplemental Materials
c. Reva Siegel, Why Equal Protection No Longer Protects, Supplemental Materials
Week IX. Critiques of Rights
a. Mark Tushnet, An Essay on Rights, Supplemental Materials
b. Patricia Williams, Alchemical Notes: Reconstructing Ideals from Deconstructed Rights, Supplemental Materials
c. Alan Hunt, Rights and Social Movements: Counterhegemonic Strategies, Supplemental Materials
d. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw, Race, Reform and Retrenchment: Transformation and Legitimation in Antidiscrimination Law, Supplemental Materials
Week X. Postmodernism
a. Stanley Fish, The Law Wishes to Have a Formal Existence, Supplemental Materials
b. Pierre Schlag, Clerks in the Maze, Supplemental Materials
Week XI. Critical Legal Studies
Duncan Kennedy, A Critique of Adjudication, pp. 1-212
Week XII. Critical Legal Studies
Duncan Kennedy, A Critique of Adjudication, pp. 215-376
Week XIII. To Be Announced