LA 3012Modern Liberal ArtsUniversity of WinchesterSemester 1September 2014-15Room MC107Rebekah Howes

Spirit: life and death

Week 1 Life and DeathReadingHawthorne, N. (1967) ‘The Minister’s Black Veil’ in Great Short Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, New York: Harper & Row

Wider readingSaitya Brata Das (2008) ‘To Philosophize is to Learn How to Die?’ in KRITIKE Vol two Number 131-49Cohen, J. (2005) How to read Freud, London: GrantaHarris, H.S. (1995) Phenomenology and System Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, IncHegel, G.W.F. (1977) Phenomenology of Spirit, Cambridge: Cambridge University PressHyppolite, J. (1974) Genesis and Structure of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, Evanston: Northwestern University PressJames, K. (2009) The deaths of Seneca, Oxford: Oxford University PressLee, A.R. (1982) Nathaniel Hawthorne: new critical essays, London: VisionPlato, (1997) Republic in Plato Complete Works, Indiana: Hackett Publishing Company The myth of ErPlato (1997) ‘Phaedo’ in Plato Complete Works, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, IncMarcus Aurelius (2006) Meditations, London: PenguinMillington, R.H. (ed) (2004) The Cambridge companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne, Cambridge: Cambridge Uni PressSeneca (1974) Letters from a stoic: epistulae morales ad Lucilium, Harmondsworth: PenguinSeneca (1997) On the Shortness of Life, London: PenguinSteiner, G. (1971) In Bluebeard's castle: some notes towards the re-definition of culture, London: Faber & Faber Tubbs, N. (2009) History of Western Philosophy, London: Palgrave macmillanTubbs, N. (2008) Education in Hegel, London: Continuumhttp://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/montaigne/montaigne-essays--5.html no XVII

Week 2 The right to die

Week 3 SpiritReadingHegel, G.W.F. (1977) Phenomenology of Spirit, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Harris, H.S. (1995) Phenomenology and System Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, IncWyschogrod, E. (1985) Spirit in Ashes, New Have & London: Yale University Press pp 67-69

Wider readingHoulgate, S. (1991) Freedom, truth and history: an introduction to Hegel's philosophy, London: Routledge

Hyppolite, J. (1974) Genesis and Structure of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, Evanston: Northwestern University PressTubbs, N. (2008) Education in Hegel, London: Continuum pp 35-39Williams, R. (2007) ‘Logic and Spirit in Hegel’ in Wrestling with Angels, Conversations in Modern Theology, London: SCM PressYovel, Y. (2005) Hegel’s Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit, New Jersey: Princeton University Press

Week 4 French revolution ‘That which produces the general good is always terrible’ (Saint-Just) Reading Burke, E. (2001) Reflections on the Revolution in France, California: Stanford University Press pp 183-192Comay, R. (2010) Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution (Cultural Memory in the Present) Stanford University PressRobespierre, M. ‘On the Principles of Revolutionary Government’; ‘On the Principles of Political Morality that should guide the National Convention in the Domestic Administration of the Republic’; ‘Extracts from Speech of 8 Thermidor Year II’; ‘On the Trial of the King’ p59 in Zizek, S. (2007) Virtue and Terror: Maximilien Robespierre, London: Verso Zizek, S. ‘The Dark Matter of Violence, or, Putting Terror in Perspective’ in Wahnick, S. (2012) In Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution, London: Versohttp://youtu.be/knDe_EZSxTw - documentaryJames Gillray and the French revolution: http://guliverlooks.wordpress.com/2014/03/31/the-work-of-james-gillray

Wider ReadingArendt, H. (1963) On Revolution, London: Faber pp.13-52 Andress, D. ‘Liberty, Unanimity, and the Paradoxes of Subjectivity and Citizenship in the French Revolution’ in Halfin, I. (ed) (2002) Language and Revolution: Making Modern Political Identities, London: Frank Cass Publishers, pp 27-46Fanon, F. (1990) The Wretched of the Earth, London: Penguin pp.35-95Furet, F. (1981) Interpreting the French Revolution, Cambridge: Cambridge University PressFreeman, M. “Revolution as a Subject of Science,” in O’Sullivan, N. (1983) Revolutionary Theory and Political Reality, St. Martins Press, pp.23-40Harris, H.S. (1995) Phenomenology and System Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc Israel, J. (2001) Radical enlightenment: philosophy and the making of modernity, 1650-1750, Oxford: Oxford University PressMarx, K. ‘The Class Struggles in France, 1848-1850’ in Tucker, R.C. (1978) The Marx-Engels Reader, W. W. Norton & Company 2nd Edition Marx Class struggle in France: The Paris Commune ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ in Tucker, R.C. (1978) The Marx-Engels Reader, New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2nd Edition Marquis de Condorcet “On the Meaning of the Word “Revolutionary.” (2 pages -extract from his Oeuvres, 1847-49)Scurr, R. (2006) Fatal purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution, London: Chatto & WindusTilly, C. (1993) European revolutions, 1492-1992, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing chapter 1Tocqueville, Alexis de, (2008) The Ancien Régime and the Revolution, London: Penguin Classicshttp://www.marxists.org/history/france/revolution/robespierre/ excerpts from some of Robespierre’s speeches Vaclav Havel, The Power of the Powerless, pp.43-63, pp.110-127About James Gillray http://guliverlooks.wordpress.com/2014/03/31/the-work-of-james-gillray

Week 5 The GuillotineReadingComay, R. (2010) Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution (Cultural Memory in the Present) Stanford University PressFoucault, M. (1977) Discipline and Punish, London: Penguin, chapter 1, also pp 13, 15, 16Outram, D. (1989) The Body and the French Revolution, New Haven and London: Yale University Press

Wider readingHegel, G.W.F. (1977) Phenomenology of Spirit, Cambridge: Cambridge University PressHarris, H.S. (1995) Phenomenology and System Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inchttp://boisdejustice.com/History/History.html - an interesting and photographic history of the guillotine

Week 6 Victor Hugo: ‘93ReadingHugo, V. (1976) Les Misérables, London: Penguin Books Hugo, V. (2011) Ninety-three, S.I. Merchant Books

Wider ReadingGrossman, K. M. (2012) The later novels of Victor Hugo: variations on the politics and poetics of transcendence, Oxford: Oxford University PressMaurois, A. (1956) Victor Hugo, London: Jonathan Cape

Week 7 ‘half in love with easeful death’ ReadingDostoevsky, F. (1992) Devils, Oxford: Oxford University PressEagleton, T. (2005) Holy Terror, Oxford: Oxford University PressFernie, E. (2013) The Demonic: Literature and Experience, London: RoutledgeWilliams, R. (2008) Dostoevsky, Language Faith and Fiction, London: Continuum

Wider readingBakhtin, M. (1984) Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota PressBakhtin, M. (1981) The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays, Austin: University of Texas PressBanjerjee, M.N. (2006) Dostoevsky: The Scandal of Reason: Great Barrington, Mass: Lindisfarne BooksBernstein, R.J. (2002) Radical evil: a philosophical interrogation, Cambridge: Polity PressBlake, C. & Banham, G. (2000) Evil Spirits: Nihilim and the Fate of Modernity, Manchester: Manchester University PressEagleton, T. (2005) Holy Terror, Oxford: Oxford University Press chapter 4 ‘saints and suicides’Harper, R. (1967) The Seventh Solitude: Metaphysical Homelessness in Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche, John Hopkins University PressLeatherbarrow, W.J. (ed) (2002) The Cambridge Companion to Dostoevsky, Cambridge: Cambridge University PressRussell, J.B. (1986) Mephistopheles: the Devil in the Modern World, New York: Cornell University PressRussell, J.B. (1977) The Devil: perceptions of evil from antiquity to primitive Christianity, New York: Cornell University Press

Week 8 Demonic dialectic

Dostoevsky, F. (1958) The Brothers Karamazov, London: Penguin Books Williams, R. (2008) Dostoevsky, Language Faith and Fiction, London: Continuum

Wider readingBlake, C. & Banham, G. (2000) Evil Spirits: Nihilim and the Fate of Modernity, Manchester: Manchester University PressFernie, E. (2013) The Demonic: Literature and Experience, London: RoutledgeHarper, R. (1967) The Seventh Solitude: Metaphysical Homelessness in Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche, John Hopkins University PressHegel, G.W.F. (1977) Phenomenology of Spirit, Oxford: Oxford University Press Kaufmann, W. (1980) From Shakespeare to Existentialism, New Jersey: Princeton University PressLeatherbarrow, W.J. (ed) (2002) The Cambridge Companion to Dostoevsky, Cambridge: Cambridge University PressRussell, J.B. (1986) Mephistopheles: the Devil in the Modern World, New York: Cornell University PressRussell, J.B. (1977) The Devil: perceptions of evil from antiquity to primitive Christianity, New York: Cornell University PressSayers, D.L. (1963) The Poetry of Search and the Poetry of Statement, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd chapter xSteiner, G. (1980) Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: an essay in contrast, London: FaberTerras, V. (2002) A Karamazov Companion, Wisconsin, The University of Wisconsin PressWellek, R. (ed) (1962) Dostoevsky, A collection of Critical Essays, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Week 9 What’s the point? ReadingSartre, J.P. (2007) Existentialism and Humanism, London, Methuen.http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/works/exist/sartre.htmCamus, A. (1989) The Stranger, London: Vintagehttp://www.macobo.com/essays/epdf/CAMUS,%20Albert%20-%20The%20Stranger.pdf

Wider readingCrosby, D. (1988) The Spectre of the Absurd, New York: State University of New York PressDaigle, C. (2004) ‘Sartre and Nietzsche’ in Sartre Studies International, Vol. 10, No. 2 pp. 195-210 Howells, C. (1992) The Cambridge Companion to Sartre, Cambridge: Cambridge Uni PressHughes, E.J. (2007) The Cambridge Companion to Camus, Cambridge: Cambridge Uni PressLightbody, B. (2009) ‘Death and Liberation: A Critical Investigation of Death in Sartre’sBeing and Nothingness’ in Minerva - An Internet Journal of Philosophy 13 (2009): 85-98Marcuse, H. (1948) ‘Existentialism: Remarks on Jean-Paul Sartre’s L’etre et le Neant’ in PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH Volume VIII, No.3Nietzsche, F. (1992) On the Genealogy of Morals in Basic Writings of Nietzsche, New York: Modern LibraryGillespie, J.H. (2013) ‘Sartre and God: A Spiritual Odyssey?: Part 1’ in Sartre Studies International, Vol. 19, No. 1 pp. 71-90 Sartre, J.P. (1969) The Wall, New York: New Directions http://faculty.risd.edu/dkeefer/pod/wall.pdfSoloman, R.C. (2006) Dark feelings, grim thoughts: experience and reflection in Camus and Sartre, Oxford: Oxfrod Uni pressThody, P. (1989) Albert Camus, Basingstoke: Macmillan

Week 10 The Great souled man

ReadingKaufmann, W. (1959) The Owl and the Nightingale, London: Faber and Faber: chapter 1

Wider readingAristotle (1984) Nicomachean Ethics in The Complete Works of Aristotle, New Jersey: Princeton Uni PressHolloway, C. (2007) Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" and Aristotle's Great-Souled Man in The Review of Politics, Vol. 69, No. 3, Special Issue on Politics and Literature pp. 353-374Howland, J. (2002) ‘Aristotle's Great-Souled Man’ The Review of Politics, Vol. 64, No. 1 pp. 27-56 Blake, C. & Banham, G. (2000) Evil Spirits: Nihilim and the Fate of Modernity, Manchester: Manchester University PressKaufmann, W. (1980) From Shakespeare to Existentialism, New Jersey: Princeton University PressKaufmann, W. (1979) Tragedy and philosophy, New York: Princeton University PressKaufmann, W. (1976) Existentialism, religion and death: thirteen essays, New York: New American Library

Week 11 Gillian RoseReadingThe first six essays in Women: a cultural review, Spring 1998, vol. 9, no. 1.Caygill, H. (1996) ‘Gillian Rose Obituary’ Radical Philosophy, Vol. 77Rose, G. (1995) Love’s Work, London, Chatto and Windus, pp. 113-115

Wider reading(There aren’t as yet that many works available about Rose, but there is a full bibliography at http://www2.gsu.edu/~phlvwl/rose-bibliography.htm).Lloyd, V. (2009) Law and Transcendence: On the Unfinished Project of Gillian Rose, Palgrave MacmillanLloyd, V (2012) ‘Gillian Rose: making Things Difficult Again’ in Stewart, J. (ed) (2012) Volume 11, Tome I: Kierkegaard's Influence on Philosophy - German and Scandinavian Philosophy, Surrey: Ashgate Also to be found online at http://vwlloyd.mysite.syr.edu/rose-kierkegaard.pdfTubbs, N. (1998) ‘What is Love’s Work’, Women: A Cultural Review, Vol. 9, no. 1. Tubbs, N. (2000) ‘Mind the Gap: The Philosophy of Gillian Rose’, Thesis Eleven, no. 60.Rose, G. (1993) Judaism and Modernity, Philosophical Essays, Oxford: Blackwell PublishersRose, G. (1996) Mourning Becomes the Law, Cambridge University Press, introduction and Shanks, A. (2008) Against Innocence: Gillian Rose’s Reception and Gift of Faith, London: SCM PressSchick, K. (2012) Gillian Rose: ‘A Good Enough Justice’, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University PressWilliams, R. (2007)’ Between Politics and Metaphysics: Reflections in the Wake of Gillian Rose’ in Wrestling with Angels, London: SCM PressWilliams, R. (2000) Lost Icons, London: Morehouse Publishing

Assignment 1

‘We have a right to own our own death’ Critically discuss. (words 2500)OR

What is the Spirit of the Guillotine? (words 2500)

Due in to Catherine Monday 3rd November Week 7