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S24-Elam 2094 Updated Schedule 05apr

The document outlines the updated course schedule for Comparative Literature 2094 for Spring 2024, detailing weekly topics and readings from influential theorists such as Marx, Freud, and Arendt. Key themes include Marxism, psychoanalysis, history, disenchantment, enlightenment, fascism, and their legacies. The schedule also includes optional classes and reading weeks, with specific dates for assignments and discussions.

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S24-Elam 2094 Updated Schedule 05apr

The document outlines the updated course schedule for Comparative Literature 2094 for Spring 2024, detailing weekly topics and readings from influential theorists such as Marx, Freud, and Arendt. Key themes include Marxism, psychoanalysis, history, disenchantment, enlightenment, fascism, and their legacies. The schedule also includes optional classes and reading weeks, with specific dates for assignments and discussions.

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Elam Spring 2024

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 2094


Updated Course Schedule 05 April 2024

Introductions and Foundations


19 January Introduction to the course=
26 January Marxism
Karl Marx, from The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Karl Marx, ‘The Jewish Question’
02 February Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud, from Civilisation and its Discontents
Sigmund Freud, from ‘The Wolf-Man’
Sigmund Freud, ‘Why War?’
09 February no class (Lunar New Year)
optional reading
Immanuel Kant, from Critique of the Power of Judgement
16 February no class (Lunar New Year)
optional reading:
Friedrich von Schiller, from On the Aesthetic Education of Man
Optional Class I Thursday 22 February, 14.00-15.30
Friedrich Nietzsche, from On the Use and Abuse of History for Life

The Uses of History


23 February The Arcades Project
Walter Benjamin, ‘Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century’
Walter Benjamin, ‘The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire’
Walter Benjamin, ‘Exposé of 1935’
01 March History
Walter Benjamin, ‘Theses on the Philosophy of History’
08 March no class (Reading Week)
midterm essay due by 17h HKT
optional reading:
Jorge Luis Borges, ‘The Analytical Language of John Wilkins’

Disenchantment and Enlightenment


Optional Class II Thursday 21 March, 14.00-15.30
Walter Benjamin, ‘The Work of Art in the Age of its Mechanical
Reproducibility’

22 March Disenchantment and Vocation


Max Weber, ‘The Scholar’s Work’
Max Weber, from The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

29 March no class (Easter)


optional reading:
Gershom Scholem, from Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism

05 April Enlightenment
Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, from The Dialectic of
Enlightenment

Fascism and its Legacies


05 April Authority
Herbert Marcuse, from A Study on Authority
Erich Fromm, from Escape from Freedom
12 April Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt, ‘What is Authority?’
Hannah Arendt, ‘What is Freedom’
Hannah Arendt, from The Origins of Totalitarianism

Optional Class III Thursday 18 April, 14.00-15.30


Theodor Adorno, ‘On Commitment’
Theodor Adorno, from The Culture Industry

19 April No Class (Optional Final Project Workshop)


begin reading Eichmann in Jerusalem

26 April Banality of Evil


Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem

Optional Class III Monday 29 April, 15.00-17.00


Theodor Adorno, ‘On Commitment’
Theodor Adorno, from The Culture Industry

Afterlives
Optional Class IV Friday 03 May, 12.30-14.20
Michel Foucault, ‘What is Critique?’
Judith Butler, ‘What is Critique?’
Angela Davis, ‘Marcuse’s Legacies’

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