I. What is the âLeft?â â What is âMarxism?â
Saturdays 1â4PM
School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)
112 S. Michigan Ave. room 920
University of Chicago (UChicago)
The Reynolds Club 2nd floor South Lounge
5706 S. University Ave.
⢠required / + recommended reading
A. Sept. 11, 2010 (SAIC only)
⢠Moishe Postone, âHistory and Helplessness: Mass Mobilization and Contemporary Forms of Anticapitalismâ(2006)
+ Iraqi Communist Party, Letter about the Situation in Iraq (2006)
⢠Spartacist League, âThe Senile Dementia of Post-Marxismâ (2006)
+ Liza Featherstone, Doug Henwood, and Christian Parenti, â âAction Will Be Takenâ: Left Anti-Intellectualism and its Discontentsâ (2002)
B. Sept. 18, 2010 (SAIC only)
⢠Karl Marx, To make the world philosophical (from Marxâs dissertation, 1839â41), For the ruthless criticism of everything existing (1843), Theses on Feuerbach (1845)
C. Sept. 25, 2010 (SAIC only)
⢠epigraphs by James Miller (on Rousseau), Peter Preuss (on Nietzsche) and Louis Menand (on Edmund Wilson) on modern history and freedom
⢠Robert Pippin, âOn Critical Theoryâ (2003)
⢠Chris Cutrone, âCapital in Historyâ (2008)
Week 1. Oct. 2, 2010
⢠Kant, âIdea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of Viewâ (1784)
+ Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (1754)
⢠Benjamin Constant, âThe Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Modernsâ (1819)
+ Rousseau, selection from The Social Contract (1762)
Week 2. Oct. 9, 2010
⢠Leszek Kolakowski, âThe Concept of the Leftâ (1968)
Week 3. Oct. 16, 2010
⢠Max Horkheimer, selections from Dämmerung (1926â31)
⢠Theodor W. Adorno, âImaginative Excessesâ (1944â47)
Week 4. Oct. 23, 2010
⢠Siegfried Kracauer, âThe Mass Ornamentâ (1927)
⢠Wilhelm Reich, âIdeology as Material Powerâ (1933/46)
Week 5. Oct. 30, 2010
⢠Marx, selections from Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)
⢠Marx and Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)
Week 6. Nov. 6, 2010
⢠Georg LukĂĄcs, âThe Phenomenon of Reificationâ (Part I of âReification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat,â History and Class Consciousness, 1923)
Week 7. Nov. 13, 2010
⢠LukĂĄcs, âPrefaceâ (1922) , âWhat is Orthodox Marxism?â (1919) , âClass Consciousnessâ (1920), History and Class Consciousness (1923)
Week 8. Nov. 20, 2010
⢠Karl Korsch, âMarxism and Philosophyâ (1923)
+ Marx, To make the world philosophical (from Marxâs dissertation, 1839â41), For the ruthless criticism of everything existing (1843)
+ Korsch, âThe Marxism of the First Internationalâ (1924)
Week 9. Dec. 4, 2010 (SAIC) / Jan. 15, 2011 (UChicago)
⢠Juliet Mitchell, âWomen: the Longest Revolutionâ (1966)
⢠Clara Zetkin and Vladimir Lenin, âAn interview on the woman questionâ (1920)
⢠Adorno, âSexual Taboos and the Law Todayâ (1963)
⢠John DâEmilio, âCapitalism and Gay Identityâ (1983)
Week 10. Dec. 11, 2010 (SAIC) / Jan. 22, 2011 (UChicago)
⢠Richard Fraser, âTwo Lectures on the Black Question in America and Revolutionary
Integrationismâ (1953)
⢠James Robertson and Shirley Stoute, âFor Black Trotskyismâ (1963)
+ Spartacist League, âBlack and Red: Class Struggle Road to Negro Freedomâ (1966)
+ Bayard Rustin, âThe Failure of Black Separatismâ (1970)
⢠Adolph Reed, âBlack Particularity Reconsideredâ (1979)
+ Reed, âPaths to Critical Theoryâ (1984)
Week 11. Dec. 18, 2010 (SAIC) / Jan. 8, 2011 (UChicago)
+ Marx, selections from the Grundrisse (1857â61)
⢠Martin Nicolaus, âThe Unknown Marxâ (1968)
⢠Postone, âNecessity, Labor, and Timeâ (1978)
+ AndrĂŠ Gorz, from Strategy for Labor (1964)
+ Murray Bookchin, Listen, Marxist! (1969)