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NOTE: Secondary reading included below
is not a comprehensive list of all available literature. Students are
encouraged to investigate other sources. However, remember all sources must be
correctly footnoted and included in bibliographies.
Questions
1. Marx
understands his version of theory as immanent criticism. Is the concept of
alienation reconcilable with such an understanding? Is Marx’s synthesis
successful?
Reading Marx, K. Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
Marx, K. German Ideology
Markus, G. Marxism
and Anthropology, Van Gorcum, Assen, 1978
Meszaros, I. Marx's
Theory of Alienation Merlin, London, 1970
Brudney, D. Marx’s
Attempt to Leave Philosophy Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998
Ch 4,5,6,8
Torrance, J. Estrangement,
Alienation and Exploitation Columbia University Press, New York 1977, Part
2&3
Axelos, K. Alienation,
Praxis and Techné in the Thought of Karl Marx University of Texas Press,
Austin, 1976 Part 1, 2
Henry, M. Marx:
A Philosophy of Human Reality Indiana University Press, 1983, Ch 1,2
Scott Arnold, N. Marx’s Radical Critique of Capitalist Society Oxford University
Press, Oxford, 1990, Ch1, 2
Gamble, A. & Walton, P From Alienation to Surplus Value Sheed & Ward, London, 1972
Mandel, E. The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx Monthly Review
Press, New York, 1971 Chapter 10
Althusser, L. For
Marx Penguin, London, 1969 Chapters 1,2,5,7
Hyppolite, J. Studies
on Marx and Hegel Heinemann, London, 1969, Chapter 4
Plamenatz, J. Karl
Marx's Philosophy of Man Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1975
Fleischer, H. Marxism and History Allen Lane, London, 1973
Bell, D. ' The" Rediscovery"
of Alienation ' in Marx 's Socialism (Ed)
Avineri, S, Lieber-Atherton, New York, 1973
Markus, G. 'Alienation and Reification in Marx and Lukacs ' Thesis Eleven 5/6, Clayton, 1983
Löwith, K. 'Man's Self-Alienation in the Early
Writings of Marx’ Social Research 21,
1954
Suchting, W. Marx:
An Introduction Harvester Press, London, 1983, Part 1 and 2
2.
In The Economic and Philosophical
Manuscripts of 1844 Marx offers a critique of Hegel’s theory of alienation.
Explain the materialist dimension of Marx’s understanding of objectification.
Reading: Marx, K. 'Critique of Hegel 's
Doctrine of the State' in Early Writings
Penguin, London, 1975
Marx, K. ' Critique of the Hegelian Dialectic and Philosophy as a Whole'
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of
1844 (many editions)
Scott
Arnold, N. Marx’s Radical Critique of
Capitalist Society Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1990, Ch1, 2
Lukacs, G. The
Young Hegel Merlin, London, 1975 Part 4 S4
Meikle, S. Essentialism
in the Thought of Karl Marx Open Court, Illnois, 1985, Ch 2 v
Bernstein, R. Praxis and Action University
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Part 1
Henry, M. Marx:
A Philosophy of Human Reality Indiana University Press, 1983, Ch 1,2
Fetscher,
I. ' The Relation of Marxism to Hegel ' Marx
and Marxism Herder and Herder, New York, 1971
Axelos, K. Alienation,
Praxis and Techné in the Thought of Karl Marx University of Texas Press,
Austin, 1976 Part 1, 2
Hook,S.
From Hegel to Marx Anne Arbor,
University of Michigan Press, 1976
Hypolite, J. (details as in Question 1)
Cornu, A. The Origins
of Marxian Thought Charles C Thomas, Springfield, Illinois, 1957
Avineri, S ' The
Hegelian Origins of Marx 's Thought ' in Marx
's Socialism (Ed S Avineri) Lieber Atherton, New York, 1972
3. Explain Marx’ s critique of the Young
Hegelians? In what lies the alleged superiority of his standpoint? Are Marx’s
claims justified?
Reading:
Marx, K. The Holy Family, Progress
Publishers, Moscow, 1973
Marx, K. German Ideology
Progress Publishers (many editions)
Breckman,
W. Marx. Young Hegelians, and the Origins
of Radical Social Theory Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999
Brazill,
W.J. The Young Hegelians Yale University
Press, New Haven, 1970, Ch 7
Brudney,
D. Marx’s Attempt to Leave Philosophy Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 1998 Ch 4,5,6,8
Hook,S.
From Hegel To Marx Anne Arbor, New
York, 1962
Henry,
M. Marx: A Philosophy of Human Reality
Indiana University Press, 1983, Ch 1,2
McLellan, D. The
Young Hegelians and Karl Marx McMillan Press, London, 1969
'' '' Marx Before Marxism
Penguin , 1970
Cornu, A. The Origins of Marxian
Thought Charles C Thomas, Springfield Illinois, 1957, Chapter 4
Dupre, L. The Philosophical
Foundations of Marxism Hardcourt &Brace, New York, 1966 Chapter 3
Markus,
G. Marxism and Anthropology Van
Gorcum, Assen, 1978
4. The concept of communication plays a vital
role in Habermas’s understanding of critical theory. Explain this role and
consider its strengths and weakness.
Reading:
Habermas, J. ‘Between Philosophy and Science: Marxism as critique’ Theory and Practice Boston, 1973
Habermas,
J. ‘The Relationship between Theory and Praxis Revisited’ Truth And Justification Boston, MIT, 2003
Habermas, J. ‘ The Entwinement
of Myth and Enlightenment: Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity
Polity, 1987, Ch 5
Held,
D. Introduction to Critical Theory: Horkheimer
to Habermas London, Hutchinson, 1980, Part 2
McCarthy.
T. The Critical Theory of Jürgen Habermas
Hutchinson, London, 1978, Ch 2.5, 3.1, 3.2. 4.1
Allen,
A. The Politics of Ourselves: Autonomy,
Critical Theory, Gender Columbia University Press, 2007, Ch 4, 5.
Dews,
P. (Ed) Habermas: A Critical Reader
Blackwell, Oxford, 1999
Thompson.
J.B& Held, D. (Ed) Habermas: Critical
Debates MIT, Cambridge MA, 1982, Ch 2
Bernstein,
J. Recovering Ethical Life: Jürgen
Habermas and the Future of Critical Theory Routledge, 1995, Ch 1,2
Ingram,
D. Critical Theory and Philosophy
Paragon House, New York, 1990, Ch 6, 7,8
Roderick,
R. Habermas and the Foundations of
Critical Theory McMillan, London, 1986, Ch 2, 3, 4, 5
Guess,
R. The Idea of a Critical Theory:
Habermas & the Frankfurt School Cambridge University Press, 1981
Outhwaite,
W. Habermas: A Critical Introduction
Stanford University Press, 1994, Ch 1,2,3
Owen,
D.S. Between Reason and History: Habermas
and the Idea of Progress State University of New York, Albany, 2002, Ch 1,
2
Bronner,
S. Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists Oxford:
Blackwell, 1994, Ch 5, 14
5 Foucault views his own critical theory as
standing in the tradition of a “philosophy of actuality”. Explain what he means?
How does his work stand in relation to the
tradition of the Enlightenment?
Reading:
Foucault, M. ‘What is Enlightenment?’ The Foucault Reader (ed) Rabinow, P. New
York, Penguin, 1984)
Foucault,
M ‘Critical Theory/Intellectual History’ Michel
Foucault: Politics, Philosophy Culture Interviews and Other Writings 1977-1984,
Ed Kritzman, L.D. (London, Routledge, 1988)
Foucault,
M. The Politics of Truth Semiotext,
Los Angeles, 2007
Foucault,
M. Fearless Speech Semiotext. Los
Angeles, 2001
(For the other versions of critical theory, refer to the reading for
other questions)
Kelly, M. Critique
and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate Boston: MIT, 1995
Han,
B. Foucault’s Critical Project
Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2002, Part 1 Ch 1, Part 3
Oksala,
J Foucault on Freedom Cambridge
University Press, 2005, Ch 8
Lemert,
C. C. & Gillan, G. Michel Foucault:
Social Theory as Transgression (New York: Columbia University Press, 1982)
Ch4
Bernauer,
J. Michel Foucault’s Force of Flight:
Towards and Ethics of Thought New York: Humanities, Press, 1990 Ch 5, 6
Dreyfus,
H. L.& Rabinow, P. Michel Foucault:
Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics University of Chicago Press, 1982,
Part 2
Simons,
J. Foucault and the Political London,
Routledge, 1995Ch 2, 4, 8
Rajchman,
J. Michel Foucault: The Freedom of
Philosophy Columbia University Press, 1985, Ch 3
Merquior
J G Foucault University of California
Press, 1985, Ch 3, 9, 10
Racevskis,
K. Michel Foucault and the Subversion of
the Intellect (Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1983)
6. Analyse Horkheimer and Adorno’s theory of
myth. In this context, explain their critique of instrumental reason. Is it is
defensible?
Reading:
Horkheimer, M &Adorno, T.W. Dialectic of Enlightenment Stanford
University Press, 2002
Habermas,
J. ‘ The Entwinement of Myth and Enlightenment: Max Horkheimer and Theodor
Adorno The Philosophical Discourse of
Modernity Polity, 1987, Ch 5
Held,
D. Introduction to Critical Theory:
Horkheimer to Habermas London, Hutchinson, 1980, Ch 5
Jay.
M. The Dialectical Imagination: A History
of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950
Little Brown and Company, Boston, 1973m Ch 8
Bernstein,
J.M. Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics University
of Cambridge Press, 2001, Ch 2
Dubiel,
H. Theory and Politics: Studies in the
Development of Critical Theory Cambridge, MA: MIT, 1985, pp.69-112
Honneth, A. Critique
of Power MIT, Massachusetts, 1991, Ch 2
Wiggerhaus,
R. The Frankfurt School: Its History,
Theories and Political Significance MIT, Cambridge MA, 1994, Ch 4
Freidman,
G. The Political Philosophy of the
Frankfurt School Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1981, Ch 10, 16
Jacoby,
R. Dialectic of Defeat: Contours of
Western Marxism New York: Columbia University Press, 1981, Ch 4
Lunn,
E. Marxism &Modernism: A Historical
Study of Lukacs, Brecht, Benjamin and Adorno University of California
Press, 1982, Ch7
Rabinbach,
A. In The Shadow of Catastrophe: German
Intellectuals Between Apocalypse and Enlightenment University of California
Press, 1997, Ch 5
7. Many commentators have noticed the heavy debt
of the theorists of the Dialectic of
Enlightenment to Adorno’s older friend Walter Benjamin. Explain in what
this debt consists? What does Benjamin offer a contemporary critical theory?
Reading:
Horkheimer, M &Adorno, T.W. Dialectic of Enlightenment
Stanford University Press, 2002
Benjamin,W.
On the Concept of History &
Paralipomena to “On the Concept of History in Selected Works Vol 4. Harvard
University Press, 2003, pp 399-41
Jay.
M. The Dialectical Imagination: A History
of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950
Little Brown and Company, Boston, 1973m Ch 8
Bernstein,
J.M. Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics University
of Cambridge Press, 2001, Ch 2
Wiggerhaus,
R. The Frankfurt School: Its History,
Theories and Political Significance MIT, Cambridge MA, 1994, Ch 4
Ferris D.S. The
Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin, Cambridge University Press, 2004
Andrew
Benjamin and Peter Osbourne Walter
Benjamin’s Philosophy: Destruction and Experience Routledge, London, 1993
Handelman, S.A. Fragments of Redemption: Jewish Thought and
Literary Theory in Benjamin, Scholem and Levinas Indiana University Press,
1994
Hansen,
B. Walter Benjamin’s Other History: Of
Stones, Animals, Human Beings, and Angels California University Press,
Berkeley, 1998
Hansen, B, Critique
Of Violence Between Poststructuralism and Critical Theory Routledge, 2000
Honneth, A. ‘ A Communicative Disclosure of the
Past: On the Relation between Anthropology and Philosophy of History in Walter
Benjamin New Formations 20 Summer
1993, pp 83-94
Leslie, E. Walter
Benjamin Overpowering Conformism Pluto Press, 2000
Lowy, M. Fire
Alarm Reading Walter Benjamin’s ‘On the Concept of History’ Verso, London,
2005
Lowy, M. Redemption
and Utopia Jewish Libertarian Thought in Central Europe: A Study in Elective
Affinities Stanford University Press, 1992
Moses, S. The
Angel of History Rosenzweig, Benjamin, Scholem Stanford University Press,
2009
Pensky, M. Melancholy
Dialectics: Walter Benjamin and the Play of Mourning University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, 1993
Smith,
G. (Ed) Benjamin: Philosophy, History,v
Aesthetics Chicago University Press, 1989
Smith,
G. (Ed) On Walter Benjamin Critical
Essays and Recollections, Cambridge MA, 1988
Steinberg, M.P. Walter
Benjamin and the Demands of History Cornell University Press, 1996
Steiner, U. Walter
Benjamin: An Introduction to His Work and Thought Chicago University Press,
2010
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