Research Methods in the Humanities

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1 Syllabus Research Methods in the Humanities Last update HU Credits: 4 Degree/Cycle: 2nd degree (Master) Responsible Department: Mandel School Academic year: 4 Semester: Yearly Teaching Languages: Hebrew Campus: Mt. Scopus Course/Module Coordinator: Moshe Sluhovsky Coordinator msl@huji.ac.il Coordinator Office Hours: Monday 13:00-14:00 Teaching Staff: Prof Moshe Sluhovsky page 1 / 6

2 Course/Module description: Close reading of the major philosophical, methodological, and theoretical texts of the 20th century, from the positivism of the late 19th century to current developments in the Humanities. Course/Module aims: To understand what were the major claims of the more important theoretical and intellectual breakthroughs of the 20th century. Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to: knowledge of the major theoretical and methodological approaches in the Humanities Attendance requirements(%): 100 Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: weekly discussions Course/Module Content: 1. 19th Century poitivism 2. Hegel and Marx 3. Freud 4. Weber and Durkheim 5. Linguistics 6. The Annales School 7. Gramsci and the Frankfurt School 8. A-tonal Music 9. New Criticism and Close Reading 10. Social History 11: Arendt and Sartre 12. Early Foucault 13: Chomsky 14: Narratology 15. Feminist Theory 16. Post Modernism 17. Deconstruction and Jacuqes Derrida page 2 / 6

3 18: New Historicism 19: Shoah and Trauma 20: Post Colonial THeory 21: Zizek's The Pervert Guide to Cinema 22: Bourdieu 23: Ethnomusicology 24: Rawls 25: Late Foucault 26: Cognition and Brain Studies 27: Religion in the 21st Century Required Reading: 1. Introduction to Ranke's The History of the Latin and Teutonic Nations (1824) August Comte, Positivist philosophy בראשית לספר מבוא מתוך Gunkel?, Hermann 2. The British Rule in India," from the New York Daily Tribune, June 25, 1853 The Future Results of British Rule in India," from the New York Daily Tribune, August 8, 1853 מארקס ואנגלס, המניפסט הקומוניסטי Marx & Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party Louis Althusser, For Marx (1969; New York, Verso, 2005), Dora and Lacan on Dora: from Feminine Sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the Ecole Freudienne, ed. Juliet Mitchell (New York: Norton, 1985), Max Weber, "Politics as Vocation" אמיל דורקהיים, הכללים של המתודה הסוציולוגית מפגש חמישי: בלשנות מודרנית פרדינן דה סוסיר, קורס בבלשנות כללית (1915) הפרק על "מה זה סימן ומה זה מסומן?" לודויג ויטגנשטיין, "הרצאה על האתיקה" תכלת (2010) 41 6: Marc Bloch, Feudal society (London, 1989). Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, "History that Stands Still," in The Mind and Method of the Historian 7: Gramsci and The Frankfurt School 8: A Tonal Music page 3 / 6

4 9: New Criticism and Close Reading W.K. Wimsatt and Monrow Beardsley, "The Intentional Fallacy" 10: Social History: Christopher Hill, "A Bourgeois Revolution?" in J.G.A. Pocock, ed., Three British Revolutions: 1641, 1688, 1776 Cissie Fairchilds, "Female Sexual Attitudes and the Rise of Illegitimacy," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 7 (1978) וולטר בנימין, יצירת האמנות בעידן השעתוק הטכני 11: חנה ארנדט על טוטליטריות Sartre, "Existentialism is Humanism" 12: פוקו המוקדם: What is an Author "Lecture of 23 January 1974," in Psychiatric power: Lectures at the Collטge de France, , ed. Jacques Lagrange (New York; Macmillan, 2006) The Repressive Hypothesis 13: Chomsly 14: Narratology, New Formalism 15: Feminism Luce Irigaray, The Sex Which Is Not One or "The Speculum of the Other Woman," from Speculum of the Other Woman or Hיlטne Cixous The Newly Born Woman Gail Rubin, "Traffic in Women" Gilbert and Guber, The Mad Woman in the Attic, chapter 1 Emily Martin, "The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Constructed a Romance based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles," Signs 16 (1991), pp : Post Modernism: Barthes, "Death of the Author" Hayden White, "The Historical Text as a Literary Artifact", Clio 3, (1974), pp Jean-Franחois Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition מפגש :17 Deconstruction Jacuqes Derrida, Margins of Philosophy: La Diffיrance, Ends of Man Or Writing and Difference J. Hilis Miller Jonathan Culler, from On Deconstruction מפגש :18 New Historicism Steven Greenblatt, "Learning to Curse" and "Marvelous Possessions" 19: Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity? Lyotard, The Differend 20: Post Colonial Theory Homi Bhabha, "Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse," in his page 4 / 6

5 The Location of Culture (London, 1994), pp ; also in October 28 (1984): "The Other Question: Stereotype, Discrimination, and the Discourse of Colonialism," in The Location of Culture, (London, 1994) pp ובעברית: הומי בבא, "שאלת Dipesh Chakrabanty "Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History" Representations 37 (1992): : Zizek's The Pervert Guide to Cinema 22: Bourdieu Habitus Distinction Frederic Jameson, "Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism," New Left Review 146 (July-August 1984) or his "Postmodernism and Consumer Society," in The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture, ed. Hal Foster. מפגש 23: מוסיקולוגיה, אתנומוסיקולוגיה? (איתן ווילף?) 24: Rawls Christine Korsgaard, Sources of Normativity 25: Foucualt: "The Ethics of the Care for the Self as a Practice of Freedom: An Interview," Philosophy and Social Criticism 12:2-3 (1987), or The Use of Pleasure, Introduction and part 1, chs 1-4. A lecture from The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collטge de France : Cognition 17: Religion: Talal Asad, "The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category," in his Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam Saba Mahmood," Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival," Cultural Anthropology 6:2 (2001): יJos Casanova, "Public Religions Revisited," in Hent de Vries, ed. Religion: Beyond the Concept (New York: Fordham U.P., 2008), Additional Reading Material: none Course/Module evaluation: End of year written/oral examination 0 % Presentation 0 % page 5 / 6

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