GER 382N Intellectual History: Syllabus
"Fins de siècle 1800, 1900, 2000: 3 Modern Turns in Mythic National Cultures"
Fall, 2006 Unique #38965 TTH 1230 to 2p EPS 4.108
Week 1: 31 August
THIntroduction to the Course:
The Role of the Scholar in Cultural Studies
How to Work in Cultural Studies
Preliminary Lecture: The case of 2000 -- the historical moment in which you work
CASE I: 2000: Identity Politics, the Death of Nationalism, Globalization
Themes: post-reunification Germany, EU Europe, post-national subject
Sites for Examples: Berlin and reunified Germany's/unified Europe's public media sphere
WEEK 2: 5, 7 September
TUHuyssen, Presents Past, Chaps. 1-4, 8, 9
THBoym, The Future of Nostalgia, Part 1, Part 2: Chaps. 7 & 10, Conclusion
WEEK 3: 12, 14 September
TUTHEME: The New Identity Politics, and Nomad Feminism
Rosi Braidotti, Nomadic Subjects, Intro., Chaps. 1, 2, 4, 8
Précis due: Pick any chapter form the last two weeks
THKATIE OUT OF TOWN: FILM SHOWING: Mostly Martha
WEEK 4: 19, 21 September
TUTHEME: Globalization
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire, Parts 1 & 2, Intermezzo, and 4.3
---. Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire, Parts 1 & 2, 3.3
REC: Passavant and Dean, eds., Empire's New Clothes
-Passavant, "Introduction," 1-20
-Laclau, "Can Immanence Explain Social Struggle?," 21-30
-Fitzpatrick, "The Immanence of Empire, " 31-56
-Sassen, "The Repositioning of Citizenship,"175-198
-Zizek, "The Ideology of the Empire and Its Traps," 253-64
THKATIE OUT OF TOWN: WORKING ON YOUR OWN PROJECTS AS GROUPS; email consultation
WEEK 5: 26, 28 September
TUEXAMPLE of National/Postnational discussion: Class Discussions on what there is to do in cultural studies in the 2000 contexts (we model the class presentations)
Mostly Martha
Christo, Wrapped Reichstag
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THTHEME: Death of Nationalism
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Nomadology: The War Machine (all)
REC (but not to discuss): Kristeva, Nations without Nationalism
Précis due: Deleuze or Hardt/Negri (any chapter)
WEEK 6: 3, 5 October
TUGroup Presentations
THGroup Presentations
CASE 2: 1900: Modernization, Industrialization, and the Rationalization of the Subject
WEEK 7: 10, 12 October
TULECTURE INTRODUCTION:
The Case of Vienna and the Loss of Traditional Language
Freud, "The Dream-Work" from Interpretation of Dreams
---. Introduction to Psycho-Analysis (all)
Lacan, "Mirror Stage "
THTheory for analysis (excerpts):
Benjamin,"Das Kunstwerk . . . / The Work of Art . . . " from Illuminations
---, "Exposés"
WEEK 8: 17, 19 October
TUKATIE OUT OF TOWN:
Film showing: Eyes Wide Shut
THKATIE OUT OF TOWN:
Film showing: EWS, part II
WEEK 9: 24, 26 October
TUAgamben, State of Exception (all)
---, Homo Sacer (passim)
Précis due: Freud, Lacan, or Benjamin
THClass Example:
Eyes Wide Shut and "Traumnovelle"/"Dream Story"
WEEK 10: 31 October, 2 November
TUContemporaneous Archive: Sample Analyses
Schorske, "The Ringstrasse, Its Critics, and the Birth of Urban Modernism"
Hofmannsthal, "Ein Brief/ Letter of Lord Chandos" (note the mp3 on cd)
Arens, "Hofmannsthal's Essays: Conservation as Revolution"
THGroup Presentations
WEEK 11: 7, 9 November
TUGroup Presentations
Case 3: The Problem of 1800: Weimar, Königsberg, Jena, and Heidelberg
THThemes for lecture: historical reconstruction, understanding, Napoleon as world-historical individual, Volksgeist, Nationalgeist, Bildung
Abstract and Research Plan due
WEEK 12: 14, 16 November
TUTheme: Performing the Nation
Marchand, Down from Olympus, Chapters 1, 2, 3
Sheehan, Museums in the German Art World, Chapters 1, 2
THSchama, Landscape and Memory, Part 1: Wood, Chapters 1 & 2
Kenneth E. Foote, Shadowed Ground, Chaps. 1, 7, 8, 9, and new afterword
WEEK 13: 21 November (23 = Thanksgiving)
TUHobsbawm and Ranger, Invention of Tradition (kilt essay)
Williamson, The Longing for Myth in Germany, Introduction, Chaps. 1, 2, & 6
Said, "Introduction" to Orientalism
Précis due: any chapter in the section
WEEK 14: 28, 30 November
TUGROUP PROJECT: Carlyle, Sartor Resartus
THGroup Project, continued.
WEEK 15: 5, 7 December
TUClass Symposium
THClass Symposium, continued
Final Paper Due: Sat. 16 Dec., 5pm (official exam date)