MODULE OUTLINE
Modern Liberal Arts
University of Winchester
Semester 1 2015
LA 2001 Freedom is to Learn
Thursdays 15.30-17.30 MB2
Tubbs
Module Learning Outcomes
Show engagement with primary sources
Show a knowledge of theoretical perspectives and/or works
Show an understanding of abstract concepts and ideas within theoretical perspectives
Show an ability to work with theorists and their concepts in various forms of assessment as appropriate
Show evidence of engagement with texts and ideas concerned with issues surrounding freedom in the world
Weekly seminars (full list of references at the end)
‘how can light and darkness be in agreement?’ (Erasmus, 1964, Enchiridion, p. 30).
Week 1 Aristotle on masters and slaves
Readings: Aristotle, The Politics, pp. 63-9, 94-97, 451-471.
Plato, The Laws, 713-14
Seneca, The Letters, letter XLVII, pp. 90-6.
St Augustine, City of God, pp. 874-6, 893.
St Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Q21, art. 1 (vol. 1); Q96, art 4 (vol. 4)
Epictetus, Discourses, book IV, chapter 1
Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, IV, 17.
Newman, The Idea of a University, p. 178.
Proctor, Defining the Humanities, pp. 200-1.
Wider reading: Life of Diogenes the Cynic, in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book VI, chapter 2.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lives_of_the_Eminent_Philosophers/Book_VI#Diogenes
St Augustine, City of God, Book XIX
St Thomas Aquinas, Q105, art. 4 (vol. 8)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
Aquinas, Commentary on Aristotle’s Politics,
Plato, (1971) Gorgias, 483-5.
Smith, A. (1986) Wealth of Nations, pp. 488-9.
Ward, ‘Ethnos in the Politics: Aristotle and Race,’ in Ward and Lott (2002).
Neill, R. (2011) ‘Slavery in the Writings of Thomas Aquinas,’ http://www.sju.ca/sites/default/files/Library/Headley%20essays/Headley%20Ralph%20Neill.pdf
Clarence-Smith, Islam and the Abolition of Slavery
(Library)
Week 2 Hegel on master and slave
Reading: Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, §178-196
du Bois, The Education of Black People, 106-8, 128.
McLaurin, Celia, a Slave, pp. 113-119.
Maya Angelou ’Still I rise’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqOqo50LSZ0
Maya Angelou ‘The Mask’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT9y9HFHpU0&feature=youtu.be
Wider reading: Sartre, Being and Nothingness, pp. 235-245.
Adler, The Idea of Freedom, Book 2, Part I, chapter 1.
Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, part 2.
Taylor, Hegel, pp. 148-57.
Lacan, The Other Side of Psychoanalysis pp. 20-36, 148-9, 169-72.
Browning, Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Reappraisal, chapter 12.
Harris, H.S. (1995) Hegel: Phenomenology and System, pp. 35-40.
Rose, Mourning Becomes the Law, chapter 3.
Norman, Hegel's Phenomenology
Rockmore, Before and After Hegel, pp. 103-107.
Tubbs Philosophy’s Higher Education, pp. 28-39.
Week 3 Kant and Dostoevsky
Readings: Kant, ‘What is Enlightenment’.
Kant, (2012) On the feeling of the beautiful and the sublime, p. 33-4
Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, ‘The Grand Inquisitor’, pp. 283-304. http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dostoyevsky/d72b/chapter36.html
and pp. 360-6, chapter 41
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dostoyevsky/d72b/chapter41.html
Wider reading: Kant, Political Writings, pp. 64 & 69.
Kant, (2007) ‘Conjectural beginning of human history’
Williams, Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction, pp. 27-34.
Week 4 of the slave
Readings: Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, Intro 171-3
Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, conclusion
Ansbro, J.J. (1982/4) Martin Luther King, The Making of a Mind, 119-128, 214-15, 298.
ML King Jnr, Stride Toward Freedom, 88-9.
Tutu, No Future Without Forgiveness, 34-6, 40, 154-5, 212-19.
du Bois, The Souls of Black Folks, chapter 1.
Wider reading: du Bois The Souls of Black Folks, chapter 11
du Bois, ‘du Bois Speaks to Africa,’
http://www.nathanielturner.com/duboisspeakstoafrica1958.htm
du Bois, The Education of Black People
The Correspondence of W.E.B. Du Bois, Vol. 1: Selections, 1877-1934
Tutu, No Future Without Forgiveness
Diop, C.A, (1991) Civilization or Barbarism, chapter 17.
Krog, Country of my Skull,
White, D.G. (1999) Ar’n’t I a Woman? New York, Norton.
ML King Jnr, (1956) ‘Facing the Challenge of a new age’
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/primarydocuments/Vol3/3-Dec-1956_FacingtheChallenge.pdf
ML King Jnr, ‘Introduction’ to The Papers of ML King Jnr, vol. II Rediscovering Precious Values, Berkley, University of California Press http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/primarydocuments/Vol2Intro.pdf
ML King Jnr, The Papers of ML King Jnr, vol. II Rediscovering Precious Values, Berkley, University of California Press, (on Maritain, pp. 119-24; on Hegel, pp. 154, 196-201).
ML King Jnr, Stride Toward Freedom
Bernasconi, R, (2009) ‘Our Duty to Conserve: W. E. B. Du Bois's Philosophy of History in Context’ South Atlantic Quarterly Summer2009, Vol. 108 Issue 3, p. 519-540.
Bernasconi, R. (2011) ‘The Impossible Logic of Assimilation,’ Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, vol. 19. No. 2 http://jffp.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jffp/article/view/490
Ellison, R. (1952/2001) Invisible Man.
Genet, J. (1960) The Blacks: a clown show.
Morrison, T. (2005) Song of Solomon.
James Meredith http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19734976
Slave ‘stories’
McLaurin, M.A. (1991) Celia, a Slave, New York, Avon Books.
Douglass, F. (2009) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Northup, S, (2014) 12 Years a Slave, London, HarperCollins.
Jacobs, H. (2001) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, New York, Dover.
Equiano, O. (1789/2005) The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself, London.
Dickens, C. (1883 ) American Notes, New York, John Lovell Company, chapter 17.
Week 5 Commodity fetishism
Reading: Tucker, R.C. (1978) The Marx-Engels Reader, London, Norton, pp. 302-323
Week 6 Magritte – messing with identity
‘There are names and there are things. A name is a spoken sound which designates a thing and acts as a sign for it. The name is not part of that thing nor part of its substance’ (Montaigne, The Complete Essays, p. 702).
Readings: Gablik, (1985) magritte, chapter 7, pp. 124-135, 168-172.
Torczyner (1979) Magritte: The True Art of Painting, pp. 28, 71, & 118-25.
Week 7 Weber – Capitalism, Protestantism and Reason
Readings: Weber, M. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, pp. 91, 60-3, 80-1, 108-9, 117-121, 152-8, 162, 169-75.
Weber, Economy and Society, pp. 223-4.
Weber, M. From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, pp. 214-6.
Weber, M. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, pp 180-3.
Handout
Wider reading Pascal, Pensees, on diversion VIII, pp. 66-72.
Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class,
Bataille, (1997) ‘Letter to X’
Week 8 Vincent van Gogh
Reading: letters from De Leeuw, The Letters of Van Gogh
http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/
http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters.html
Wider reading: Wyschogrod, ‘Disrupting Reason: Art and Madness in Hegel and van Gogh’, in Zizek et al. Hegel and the Infinite.
Augustine, On The Trinity, XI.8.13
Bataille, Visions of Excess, pp. 61-72.
Heidegger, ‘The Origin of the Work of Art’ in Basic Writings, pp. 158-162.
McQuillan, Van Gogh.
Walther, Van Gogh.
Uhde, Van Gogh.
Bruce, Van Gogh.
Bonafoux, Van Gogh: the passionate eye
‘Philosophers Rumble Over Van Gogh’s Shoes’
http://harpers.org/archive/2009/10/hbc-90005828
Montaigne, (2003) ‘How we weep and laugh at the same thing’
Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvWHOj79vrw
Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMzh-s8qeSo&feature=youtu.be
Week 9 Nietzsche’s Zarathustra
Reading: Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, in The Portable Nietzsche, pp. 121-39, 225-8, 249-53, 267-71, 342-3.
Wider reading: Tolstoy, My Religion: What I Believe, chapter 1.
Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy
Allison (ed.) The New Nietzsche.
Rosen, The Mask of Enlightenment.
Ansell-Pearson, An Introduction to Nietzsche as Political Thinker.
Agamben, The Man Without Content, pp. 85-93.
Tubbs, Contradiction of Enlightenment, chapter 8.
Tubbs, ‘The Return of the Teacher’, Educational Philosophy and Theory, 35: 1.
Tubbs, Philosophy of the Teacher, chapter 7.
Tubbs, Philosophy’s Higher Education, chapter 5.
We will decide the content of weeks 10-12 in discussion in the module, from a list of possibilities.
Assessment
Assessment 1: (50%) Using texts from weeks 1-3 describe different perspectives on the master/slave relationship (2000-2250 words; deadline: Week 4 Thursday 15 Oct given to Catherine in the Office by 3.30pm).
Assessment 2: (50%) from a list that grows week by week… (2000-2250 words; deadline Week 12 Thursday 8th December given to Catherine in the Office by 3.30pm).
Use Harvard Referencing
We attempt always to return work within 3 working weeks (15 days working days).
References
Adams St. Pierre, E. (2004) ‘Deleuzian Concepts for Education: the subject undone’, Educational Philosophy and Theory, vol. 36, no. 3.
Adler, M. (1958) The Idea of Freedom, New York, Doubleday and Co.
Adorno, TW. (1983) Prisms, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Adorno, T.W. (2005) Beethoven, Cambridge, Polity Press.
Agamben, G. (1999) The Man Without Conent, Stanford, Stanford University Press.
Allison, D.B. (1985) The New Nietzsche, Cambridge Massachusetts, The MIT Press.
Ansbro, J.J. (1982) Martin Luther King, The Making of a Mind, New York, Orbis Books.
Ansell-Pearson, K. (1994) An Introduction to Nietzsche as Political Thinker, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Aquinas, T. (1920) The “Summa Theologica of St Thomas Aquinas, in 22 volumes, trans. By Fathers of the English Dominican Province, 2nd ed., London, Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd.
Aristotle, (1981) The Politics, London, Penguin.
Armstrong, A.H. (1953) Plotinus, London: George Allen & Unwin.
Auerbach, E. (1961) Dante Poet of the Secular World, New York, New York Review of Books.
Augustine, (1972) City of God, London, Penguin
Augustine, (1998) Confessions, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Augustine, (2002) On The Trinity, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Bataille, G. (1985) Visions of Excess, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press.
Bataille, G. (1997) The Bataille Reader, Oxford, Blackwell.
Boccaccio, G. (2011) Life of Dante, Richmond, One World Classics.
Bonafoux, P. (1992) Van Gogh: The Passionate Eye, London, Thames & Hudson.
Botting, F. and Wilson, S. (1997) The Bataille Reader, Oxford, Blackwell.
Brod, M. (1972) The Diaries of Franz Kafka, London, Penguin.
Browning, G. (1997) Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: a re-appraisal, Dordrecht, Kluwer.
Bruce, B. (1992) Van Gogh, London, Dorling Kindersley.
Buck-Morss, S. (1979) The Origin of Negative Dialectics, New York, The Free Press.
Bürger, P. (2002) The Thinking of the Master, Evanston, Northwestern University Press.
Canetti, E. (2012) Kafka’s Other Trial, London, Penguin.
Cicero, (2001) Letters to his Friends, Loeb Classical Library.
Clarence-Smith, W.G. (2005) Islam and the Abolition of Slavery, London, C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd.
Claussen, D. (2008) Adorno, one last genius, Harvard University Press
Critchley, S. and Schroeder, W. (eds.) (1999) A Companion to Continental Philosophy, Oxford, Blackwell, chapter 51.
Dante, (1984) The Divine Comedy vol. 1: Inferno, trans. M Musa, London: Penguin.
Dante, (1996) Monarchy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dante, (2002) The New Life (Vita Nuova) New York, New Review Books.
De Leeuw, R. (1996) The Letters of Van Gogh, Harmondsworth, Penguin.
Descartes, R. (1985) Discourse on Method in The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, vol 1, trans. Cottingham, Stoothoof & Murdoch, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Dickens, C. (1883 ) American Notes, New York, John Lovell Company, chapter 17.
Dostoevsky, F. (1993) The Brothers Karamazov, London: Penguin.
Du Bois, W.E.B. (2001) The Education of Black People, New York, Monthly Review Press.
Douglass, F. (2009) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Eagleton, T. (2005) Figures of Dissent, London, Verso.
Eliot, TS. (1929) Dante, London, Faber and Faber
Eliot, TS, Dante (from The Sacred Wood) at
http://www.bartleby.com/200/sw14.html
Epictetus, (1877) The Discourses of Epictetus; with the Encheiridion and fragments, London, George Bell and sons.
Equiano, O. (1789/2005) The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself, London.
Erasmus, D. (1964) The Essential Erasmus, New York, Meridian.
Fanon, F. (1986) Black Skin White Masks, London, Pluto Press.
Fanon, F. (2001) The Wretched of the Earth, London, Penguin.
Gablik, S. (1985) magritte, London: Thames and Hudson.
Gilson, E. (1963) Dante and Philosophy, New York, Harper Torchbook.
Harris, H.S. (1995) Hegel: Phenomenology and System, Indianapolis, Hackett Publishing Co.
Hegel, G.W.F. (1967) Philosophy of Right, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
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Hegel, G.W.F. (1977) Phenomenology of Spirit, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Hegel, G.W.F. (1984) Hegel: The Letters, Bloomington, Indiana University Press.
Hegel, G.W.F. (1990) Philosophy of Mind, Oxford, Clarendon Press.
Heidegger, M. (1996) Basic Writings, ed. David Farrell Krell, London, Routledge.
Hyppolite, J. (1974) Genesis and Structure of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, Evanston, Northwestern University Press.
Innocent III, (1969) On The Misery of the Human Condition (De miseria humane conditionis), Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.
Jay, M. (1996) The Dialectical Imagination, University of California Press.
Jacobs, H. (2001) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, New York, Dover.
Jacoff, E. (ed) 1993) The Cambridge Companion to Dante, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Kafka, (1992) Kafka’s Letters to Felice, London, Minerva.
Kafka, F. (1993) Collected Stories, ed. Gabriel Josipovici, London, Everyman.
Kafka, F. (1994) The Trial, London, Penguin.
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Kierkegaard, S. (1996) Papers and Journals, A Selection, London, Penguin.
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