Fall 2006 Advance Course Information

This information effective for Fall 2006. Check with instructor the first day of class for any changes.

History of Consciousness

[HISC-80M] [HISC-239A]

80M. Imagining Popular Culture: Film/Society Dailogues.

Instructor: Shannon Brownlee

Course Description

For information on HISC 80M, please see: http://people.ucsc.edu/~sbrownle/HISC80M.html.

239A. The Dialectical Legacy.

Instructor: Prof. Gopal Balakrishnan
Instruction: Tuesdays 10:00 a.m. — 1:00 p.m.
Classroom: 109 Oakes

Course Description

This will be a two-quarter seminar course for graduate students (and undergraduates who have
received permission). Weekly discussion will be on assigned readings from the writings of Hegel and Marx, with an emphasis on the philosophical dimension of their understanding of history, revolution and capitalism.  A web-discussion page will be constructed at the beginning of the fall quarter.

A) Fall Quarter 2006:

Week 1: Introduction and Overview

Week 2: Georg Lukacs, The Young Hegel

Week 3: Theodor Adorno, Three Studies on Hegel

Week 4: Robert Pippin, Hegel's Idealism

Week 5: G.W.F. Hegel, Preface to The Phenomenology of
Spirit

Week 6: G.W.F. Hegel, Preface to The Phenomenology of
Spirit

Week 7: G.W.F.  Hegel, The Philosophy of Right

Week 8: G.W.F.  Hegel, The Philosophy of Right

Week 9: G.W.F.  Hegel, Encyclopedia, Logic

Week 10: G.W.F.  Hegel, Encyclopedia, Logic

B) Reading List for Fall Quarter

George Lukacs, The Young Hegel, available online:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/youngheg/index.htm

G.W.F. Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit, Oxford
University Press, USA; New Ed edition (February 1,
1979)

G.W.F. Hegel, The Philosophy of Right, Oxford
University Press, USA; New Ed edition

G.W.F. Hegel, Hegel’s Logic, Oxford University Press,
USA; Third edition

T. Adorno, Three Studies, MIT Press, 1999

Robert Pippin, Hegel's Idealism, Cambridge University
Press, 1989

C) Winter Quarter 2007

Week 1: On the Jewish Question (1843), A Contribution
to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right.
Introduction (1843-4)

Week 2: Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts (1844)

Week 3:  Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts,
Theses on Feuerbach

Week 4: The Communist Manifesto and The 18th Brumaire
of Louis Napoleon

Week 5: Grundrisse (Excerpts)

Week 6: Capital, Vol 1

Week 7: Capital, Vol 1

Week 8: Capital, Vol. 1

Week 9: Capital, Vol.3

Week 10: Capital, Vol.3, Conclusion

D) Reading List for Winter Quarter:

Early Writings: Karl Marx, Penguin Classic

The Eighteenth Brumaire, International Publishers

Grundrisse, Penguin Classic

Capital, Vol.1, Penguin Classic

Capital, Vol. 3, Penguin Classic

Evaluation:

Students will be evaluated on the basis of class participation and written papers, as follows:

Students in 239A will be evaluated on the basis of a small paper (7-10 pages) if they intend to continue in 239B.  If they do not, they will write a longer paper (10-15 pages).  Students who are able to take both quarters will be evaluated on the basis of a short paper in fall quarter and a larger paper (15-20) pages due at the end of winter quarter.  Students who take winter quarter only (with the permission of the instructor) will be evaluated on the basis of a 10-15 page paper.

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