Centre for the Study of Theory & Criticism Core Comprehensive Examination List June 2018

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1 Adorno Negative Dialectics Introduction C Frankfurt School w/max Horkheimer Aesthetic Dialectic of Enlightenment Ahmed Sara Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-coloniality Art, Society, and Aesthetics; Situation; Enigmaticalness; Toward a of the Artwork 1-44; ; Introduction Xi-xvii 7 Althusser Louis Essays on Ideology Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses Andersen Chris Metis: Race, Recognition and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood Appadurai Arjun Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception Part II B Postcolonial; Affect C Post-structuralist Ch. 1 Mixed B Indigenous Critical Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy Global Ethnoscapes: Notes and Queries for a Transnational Anthropology The Production of Locality B Post-modernist; Postcolonial Arendt Hannah Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil The Origins of Totalitarianism The Human Condition Aristotle The Basic Works of Aristotle Epilogue and Postscript C Modernist Chapter Sections 3-4, pp (U. of 17-27, Chicago Press 1958) Categories 1-5, , A Greek Metaphysics i 1-4, 6-9;ii; iii 1; iv 1-6; v 7-8; vii; viii 1-3; ix 1-7; xii 6-10; xiii 10 (1-21, 54-78, 79, , , , , , ) , , , , , , , , Nicomachean Ethics i 1-13; ii 1-6; iii 1-7; v 1-2, 7, 10; vi 1-3, 5-8, (1-33, 34-47, 58-84, , , , , ) , , , , , ,

2 Politics i 1-6; ii 1-5; iii 1, 4, 6-12; iv 1, 3, 11; v 1, 8, 9; vii 1-3, 8-9, 13, 15 (25-37, 54-68, 100-2, 105-9, , , , , , , , , , ) , , , , , , , , , , , , , Badiou Alain Being and Event Parts I, V 23-80, A Post-postmodernist Bakhtin Mikhail Bakhtinian Thought: An Introductory Reader The hero s monologic C Marxist discourse and narrational discourse in Dostoevsky s short novels Heteroglossia in the novel The grotesque image of the body and its sources Barthes Roland The Pleasure of the entire C Semiotics Text Image-Music-Text The Death of the Author Bataille Georges Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, The Accursed Share, volume I Baudrillard Jean The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign Simulacra and Simulation Bauman Zygmunt Modernity and the Holocaust Liquid Modernity Change the Object Itself: Mythology today The Big Toe A Surrealist Base Materialism and Gnosticism Sacrificial Mutilation and the Severed Ear of Vincent Van Gogh The Psychological Structure of Fascism Theoretical Introduction Conclusion: On Contemporary Alienation, or the End of the Pact with the Devil Towards a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign A Post-structuralist The Precession of Simulacra The Uniqueness and Normality of the Holocaust "Forward: On Being Light and Liquid" B Post-modernist

3 de Beauvoir Simone The Ethics of Ambiguity Ambiguity and Freedom; Personal Freedom and Others The Second Sex Introduction; Chapter ; C Existentialist 47 Feminist Benjamin Walter Illuminations The Storyteller C Frankfurt School Reflections The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Theses on the Philosophy of History Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century Critique of Violence Selected Writings Vol 1 ( ) On Language as Such Bergson Henri Matter and Memory Chapter 4, Summary and Conclusion ; A Existentialist Creative Evolution Selections from Chapters 2-3 (Dover 1998/Henry Holt 1911 edition) Blanchot Maurice The Work of Fire Literature and the Right to Death The Space of Literature ; The Essential Solitude Death as Possibility The Outside, the Night A Literary criticism Bloch Ernst Nonsynchronism and the Obligation to Its Dialectics, New German Critique, No. 11 (Spring, 1977) B Marxist The Principle of Hope: Vol. 1. Introduction The Utopian Function of Art and Literature: Selected Essays. Bourdieu Pierre Outline of a of Practice Distinction Practical Reason: On the of Action Something s missing: a discussion between Ernst Bloch and Theodor W. Adorno on the contradictions of utopian longing Structures and the Habitus B Modernist Structures, Habitus, Power: Basis for a of Symbolic Power Introduction; The Habitus and the Space of Life-Styles; The Dynamics of the Fields Social Space and Symbolic Space Butler Judith Bodies that Matter Introduction A Post-structuralist Gender Trouble Chapter 1, and From Interiority to Gender Performatives (end of Ch. 3 section IV) + Conclusion 1-44,

4 Chow Rey The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism Introduction, chapters 1, 5, and postscript 1-49, C Critical race theory Deleuze Gilles The Logic of Sense Series 1, 2, 5, 13, 15, 21, , 4-11, A Post-structuralist 28-35, 82-93, , , Difference and Introduction Repetition Difference in Itself Conclusion w/felix Anti-Oedipus Desiring Machines Post-structuralist Guattari A Thousand Introduction: Rhizome Plateaus Derrida Jacques Of Grammatology Exergue & Section I: Writing A Deconstructionism Before the Letter That Dangerous Supplement Writing and Difference Margins of Philosophy Freud and the Scene of Writing Différance Specters of Marx Injunctions of Marx De Saussure Ferdinand Course in General Linguistics Descartes René Discourse on Method Meditations on First Philosophy Edelman Lee Queer Studies Reader Fanon Frantz Black Skin, White Masks The Wretched of the Earth Foucault Michel The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences Part I, Chapter 1; Part II, 75-81, A Structuralist Chapters 4-5 Entire A Entire "The Future is Kid Stuff" C Queer The Fact of Blackness C Anti-colonial On National Culture Preface xv-xxiv C Post-structuralist Las Meninas The Archaeology of Knowledge and 'the Discourse on Language' Discipline and Punish Man and His Doubles The Human Sciences Archaeology and the History of Ideas Panopticism The History of We Other Victorians

5 Sexuality, volume I: An Introduction Freud Sigmund On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia The Interpretation of Dreams Civilization and its Discontents Geertz Clifford The Interpretation of Cultures The Repressive Hypothesis Mourning and Melancholia A Psychoanalysis The Dream-Work, sections AC, H-I , entire Thick Description: Toward an B Post-structuralist Interpretive of Culture Ideology as a Cultural System Goldman Emma Anarchism and Other Essays Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight Anarchism: What it Really Stands For, Minorities vs. Majorities, and Marriage & Love ; 62-84; C Anarchism Gramsci Antonio A Gramsci Reader: Selected Writings, Habermas Jürgen Communication and the Evolution of Society of Communicative Action vol.1. Hall Stuart Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies Haraway Donna Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature Harvey David The Condition of Postmodernity Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich The Phenomenology of Spirit Hegemony, Relations of Force, Historical Bloc American Fordism "Introduction: Preliminary Demarcation of the Category of Bourgeois Public Sphere Legitimation Problems in the Modern State From Lukacs to Adorno: Rationalization as Reification" C Marxist B Frankfurt School The Work of Representation C Cultural studies The Spectacle of the Other Encoding/decoding Cyborg Manifesto C Feminist Chapters 6, 12-14, and Part IV , , B Post-modernist Preface A Enlightenment 5

6 The Philosophy of History The Philosophy of Mind Aesthetics Self-Consciousness Introduction (pp in Colonial Press 1990 edition Sibree translation) Section II subsection C Ethical Life aka The Moral Life or Social Ethics Division of the Subject (Introduction, 8) 1-27, Heidegger Martin Being and Time Introduction A Phenomenology Being-in-the-World as Being With and Being-One's-Self. The They Basic Writings The Origin of the Work of Art Letter on Humanism The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays The Question Concerning Technology The Age of the World Picture Hobbes Thomas Leviathan Introduction; Part 1: i-v; Part 2: xvii-xix; Part 2: xxx-xxxi; Part 3: xxxii; A Review 9-11, 13-37, , , , B Enlightenment Hooks Bell Ain't I a Woman? Chapters 1, 2, C Feminist, Critical race theory Horkheimer Max Critical : Selected Essays "Tradition and Critical " Husserl Edmund Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and a Phenomenological Philosophy, Book I Logical Investigations The Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology Irigaray Luce This Sex Which Is Not One Jameson Fredric Postmodernism; or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism Sections 30-32, , A Phenomenology Vol. I, Investigation I, "Expression and Meaning" The Vienna Lecture: Philosophy and the Crisis of European Humanity This Sex Which Is Not One A Post-structuralist The Power of Discourse and the Subordination of the Feminine When Our Lips Speak Together The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism Feminist C Post-modernist 6

7 The Political Unconscious Kant Immanuel Critique of Pure Reason On Interpretation: Literature as a Socially Symbolic Act Introduction A Enlightenment Transcendental Aesthetic Transcendental Dialectic Book 2, Chapter 3, Section VII Critique of Judgment Appendix: Of the regulative employment of the ideas of pure reason Introduction; Book 1, sections 2, 4, 5, 8, 10; Book 2, sections 23-29, 35, , 90-91, 92-96, , 105, , , Political Writings The Conflict of the Faculties An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment? Idea of a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View On the Relation of the Faculties Kierkegaard Søren Fear and Trembling Preface A Existentialist Repetition Entire Kristeva Julia Revolution in Poetic Language Prolegomenon and Part I sections 1,2, , A Post-structuralist The Kristeva Reader Stabat Mater Feminist Powers of Horror Approaching Abjection Tales of Love Chapter Lacan Jacques Écrits The Mirror Stage C Psychoanalysis The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis The Ethics of Psychoanalysis de Landa Manuel A New Philosophy of Society Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy Latour Bruno Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious The Unconscious and Repetition Of the Gaze as Objet Petit a The Essence of Tragedy Introduction, chapters B Post-modernist Virtuality and the Laws of Physics Part I B Social 7

8 Actor-Network- Lefebvre Henri Key Writings selections from The Critique B Marxist of Everyday Life History, Time and Space State, Space, World: Selected Essays Space and the Mode of Production Space and the State Leibniz Gottfried Philosophical Essays "Meditations on Knowledge, A Philosophy Truth, and Ideas" On Nature Itself Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays The Principles of Philosophy, or, the Monadology Lévi-Strauss Claude The Savage Mind Chapters C Structuralist Structural Anthropology The Structural Study of Myth Levinas Emmanuel Totality and Infinity I.B. Separation and Discourse C Post-modernist III. Exteriority and the Face Locke John Two Treatises on Government Luhmann Niklas Introduction to Systems Lukács Georg The of the Novel: A Historicophilosophic al essay on the Forms of Great Epic Literature History and Class Consciousness Lyotard Jean- François The Differend: Phrases in Dispute Second Treatise B Enlightenment Part II.1-II.5, V , B Frankfurt School 211 Part I C Marxist Class Consciousness Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat Preface: Reading Dossier xi-xvi A Post-modernist The Differend The Inhuman The Postmodern Condition The Signs of History Introduction: About the Human The Sublime and the AvantGarde After the Sublime, the State of Aesthetics Postscript: "Answering the Question: What is postmodernism?" Macchiavelli Niccol The Prince Chapters 3-19; ; B Enlightenment 8

9 Malabou Catherine Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing: Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction entire A Post- Deconstructionism de Man Paul Allegories of Reading The Resistance to Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Criticism The Rhetoric of Romanticism The Aesthetic Ideology Marx Karl The Marx-Engels Reader Mauss Marcel The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies McLuhan Marshall Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man Autobiography as Defacement The Epistemology of 34-50, Metaphor; The Concept of Irony The German Ideology C Marxist Merleau- Ponty Maurice The Phenomenology of Perception Semiology and Rhetoric A Deconstructionist The Resistance to Rhetoric of Temporality Selections from Capital, volume I Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of entire B Social Part I.1-I.4, I.6-I , B Cultural studies Preface vii-xxiv C Existentialist Space Phenomenology The Primacy of Eye and Mind Perception The Visible and the Chapters Invisible Mignolo Walter The Darker Side of (De)coloniality at large C De-colonial Western Modernity Cosmopolitan Localisms: Overcoming Colonial and Imperial Differences Freedom to Choose' and the Decolonial Option Mill John Stuart On Liberty Parts I-IV B Enlightenment Mills Aaron The Right Relationship: Reimagining the Implementation of Historical Treaties Mills C. Wright The Sociological Imagination What is a treaty? On contract and mutual aid B Indigenous Critical The Promise B Modernist On Reason and Freedom

10 On Intellectual Craftsmanship Nancy Jean-Luc The Inoperative Community The Birth to Presence The Inoperative Community B Post-structuralist Myth, Interrupted Dei Paralysis Progressiva Exscription Nietzsche Friedrich The Nietzsche Reader Thus Spake Zarathustra On Truth and Lie in an ExtraMoral Sense Part I; Part II (selection); Part IV (selection) C Modernist 1-60; ; The Birth of Tragedy Sections 1-5, 17, , , Pascal Blaise Pensées Sections I-IV A Philosopher Plato The Republic Books I, III, VII, X , A Greek , , Phaedrus Symposium The Sophist Ricoeur Paul Ideology and Utopia Part II: Utopia C Modernist Rousseau Jean-Jacques Basic Political Writings Discourse on the Origin of Inequality The Social Contract, Books B Enlightenment Rovatti Pier Aldo Weak Thought Transformations in the C Post-modernist Course of Experience Rubin Gayle Literary : An Anthology The Traffic in Women C Feminist Said Edward Orientalism Introduction; Afterword 18-42, C Post-colonial MERIP Reports 70 (Sep 1978) ( e/ ) Culture and Imperialism Sartre Jean-Paul Being and Nothingness "The Idea of Palestine in the West" Empire, Geography, and Culture Freedom from Domination in the Future Introduction: Being-in-itself C Existentialist Bad Faith Immediate Structures of the For-Itself Quality as a Revelation of Being

11 Schelling Friedrich Ages of the World pp and in Wirth (2000) translation Sedgwick Eve Kosofsky Novel Gazing Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire Epistemology of the Closet Simmel Georg Simmel on Culture: Selected Writings Smith Dorothy The Everyday World as Problematic Smith Linda Tuhiwai Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples Smith Neil Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space 3-49, A Hermeneutics Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading; or, You re So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Introduction is About You A Queer theory Introduction Introduction: Axiomatic The Concept and Tragedy of B Modernist Culture The Conflict of Modern Culture The Sociology of Space The Metropolis and Mental Life Institutional Ethnography: A Feminist Research Strategy B Feminist Chapters 1 and B Indigenous Critical Toward a of Uneven Development I: The Dialectic of Geographical Differentiation and Equalization de Spinoza Benedictus Ethics Books 1, 2, , Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture The Spivak Reader B A Enlightenment (pre) Can the Subaltern Speak? A Deconstructionist Revolutions That as Yet Have No Mode: Derrida's Limited Inc. I Post-colonial Vattimo Gianni Weak Thought Dialectics, Difference, Weak A Post-modernist Thought Virilio Paul Speed and Politics From Street Fight to State B Post-modernist Right; From Highway Right to State Right From Highway Right to State Right The Original The Original Accident Accident Dromosphere Weber Max The Essential Weber Puritanism and the spirit of capitalism Prefatory remarks on the Collected Essays in the Sociology of Religion B Modernist

12 Three pure types of legitimate rule Formal and substantive rationalization: theocratic and secular law Basic sociological concepts Weil Simone Simone Weil, an anthology Wheeler Winona Reading Beyond Words: Contexts for Native History, 2nd edition Wittgenstein Ludwig Philosophical Investigations Tractatus Logio- Philosophicus Wollstonecraft Mary A Vindication of the Rights of Women Žižek Slavoj The Sublime Object of Ideology The Indivisible Remainder Human Personality A Philosopher The Needs of the Soul The Great Beast Analysis of Oppression The Iliad, or the Poem of Force The Journals and Voices of a Church of England Native Catechist: Askenootow (Charles Pratt), , 2, 22, 24, 27, 30, 32, 43, 47, 49, 62, 69, 71, 75, 80-2, 92, 96, 115, 130, 176, 179, 184, 203, 241, 269, 275, 288, 342, 355, 386, 449, 513, 559, pp. 217, 218, 224 Preface, Propositions , Introduction, Chapters 1-5, 9, 13 How Did Marx Invent the Symptom? C Indigenous Critical c. 40pp A c. 15pp 15 From Symptom to Sinthome Introduction , B Feminist 241, C Post-Structuralist s Average per 107 author A Humanities B - Social science C - Both

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