History of Consciousness Advance Course Information-Spring 2003

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Spring 2003

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History of Consciousness

[HISC-080Q] [HISC-101] [HISC-228]

80Q. Science as Culture and Practice

TTh 12:00–1:45 p.m.
Instructor: Donna Haraway
E-mail: haraway@ucsc.edu
Office: Oakes 209
Office hours: Th 2–4:30 and by appt. (sign-up sheet outside Oakes 209)
TAs: Patty Blanchette, Karen deVries, Shawn Haywrad, and Krista Lynes

Course Description:

Using tools from the analysis of social history, visual and material culture, fiction, and laboratory and field practices, this course introduces students to Science, Technology, and Medicine Studies. Examples come especially from 20th- and 21st-century life, human, and information sciences.

In the last 25 years, interdisciplinary studies of science, technology, and medicine have been revolutionized. Sociology, anthropology, gender and race studies, environmental studies, history, philosophy, cultural studies, literary studies, visual cultural theory, the study of material cultures in and out of the laboratory, and many other fields have contributed to modern Science, Technology, and Medicine Studies. Studies of knowledge practices around the world in colonial and postcolonial conditions generate important new insights into comparing and evaluating ways of knowing. These analyses provoke controversies about the nature of knowledge; relations among science, technology, and other domains of culture; historical narratives; situated connections among humans and nonhumans, including both machines and organisms; and the possibilities of democracy, justice, and community in technoscientific, translocal worlds. This course stresses two fundamental concepts: culture and practice.

I. Science, Culture, and Practice

Readings:

Charis Thompson Cussins, "Confessions of a Bioterrorist: Subjective Position and Reproductive Technologies," in E. Ann Kaplan and Susan Squier, eds., Playing Dolly: Technocultural Formations, Fantasies, and Fictions of Assisted Reproduction (Rutgers University Press, 1999), pp. 189-219.
Roddy Reid and Sharon Traweek, eds., Doing Science + Culture: How Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies Are Changing the Way We Look at Science and Medicine (New York: Routledge, 2000).

II. Comparing Knowledge Practices

Readings:

David Turnbull, "Masons, Tricksters, and Cartographers," in Masons, Tricksters, and Cartographers: Makers of Knowledge and Space (Amsterdam: Harwood Academic, c2000), pp.
Timothy Mitchell, Rule of Experts
Ghosh, Amitav. The Calcutta Chromosome: a Novel of Fevers, Delirium, and Discovery (New York: Avon Books, c1995)

III. Experts and Cultures

Readings:

Lock, Margaret, Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001)
Joseph Dumit, "Twenty-first Century PET," from Technoscientific Imaginaries: Conversations, Profiles, and Memoirs, George E. Marcus, ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), pp.
Stephen Epstein, Impure Science : AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge (University of California Press, c1996), pp.
Gaines, Susan M. Carbon Dreams (Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts Book Co., c2001)

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101. Bismarck

Note: Draft Only!

Spring 2003
Wed 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Oakes 109
Instructor: Gary Lease
e-mail: rehbock@ucsc.edu
Office hours: TBA

Course Description:

A detailed study of Bismarck (1815–1898): his life, career, legacy, and times, including the development of post-Napoleonic Europe and a unified Germany. The chief text will be Bismarck's memoirs (Gedanken und Erinnerungen), which will be the main focus of a concentrated and close reading. Biographies and histories can be used in support.

Though the seminar sessions will be conducted in English, the ability to read German will be presupposed.

Assigned Reading: available at the Literary Guillotine

Otto von Bismarck: Gedanken und Erinnerungen (1898, 1921)

Seminar Sessions:

Wednesday, April 2
Background and Framework: French Revolution, Napoleonic Era, post-Napoleonic Restoration
Wednesday, April 9
Post-Napoleonic and post-Restoration revolutionary movements in Central Europe; Bismarck's early life and education
Wednesday, April 16
1848 Revolution and Bismarck's first political development; his rise to power
Wednesday, April 23
Bismarck, Wilhelm I, and Prussia's hegemony
Wednesday, April 30
The Danish War (1864); the Austrian War (1866): klein vs. groß German solution
Wednesday, May 7
The Franco-Prussian War (1870) and the Unification of Germany
Wednesday, May 14
The Kulturkampf (1870s and 1880s)
Wednesday, May 21
Bismarck as the social "revolutionary": battles with the Reichstag
Wednesday, May 28
Bismarck as architect of peace: treaties, treaties, treaties
Wednesday, June 4
Bismarck's end: Wilhelm II and Bismarck's dismissal; becoming a living legend through the memoirs

Evaluation:

Grade and Evaluation based on participation in seminar discussion, seminar report, and
research paper.

For each week's discussion, please bring a written, one paragraph (or shorter) question or statement based on a specific passage in the readings. Make enough copies to distribute the question to everyone at the beginning of class. We will have an e-mail list to which you are urged to post your question/statement before class, if possible.

For each session, a student will present a summary of the reading and the most provocative points contained therein.

By May 1, every student should have discussed with the instructor plans for a research paper.

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228. Europe 2003: Shaping European Studies Today

Thurs 1–4, Oakes 109
Instructor: Alain-Marc Rieu
Web site: http://fortytwo.ucsc.edu:16080/~arieu/

Course Description:

The objective is to analyze what is called "Europe" today. There are no easy answers. "Europe" is a historical phenomenon, going through major changes throughout the 20th century. To deconstruct Europe is a powerful way of evaluating the historical meaning of Europe's present "unification." The complex relations with the U.S.A., in the past and today, will be debated.

This is a seminar in philosophy, political science, cultural studies, historical psychology, etc. These disciplines and their demarcations are born out of European history. To question Europe is also to question human and social sciences.

Therefore, this is not a seminar on the EU, but on what is called "Europe" in world history, in human and social sciences, etc.

A special emphasis will be put on the last EU priority research program, "Citizens and Governance in a knowledge based society": http://www.cordis.lu/fp6/. The emphasis is on political and social theory and philosophy as well as on history and cultural issues. Many different authors (Habermas, Kant, Hegel, Hume, Mills, Foucault, Deleuze, Ricoeur, Marx, Isaiah Berlin, etc.) constitute the horizon of the seminar.

The seminar offers a series of five lectures by faculty within a regular graduate seminar. Enrolled students will have to follow the courses and the lectures. The lecture series is open to all students.

Enrollment restrictions: Graduate students.

The Lecture Series

1. April 10

David Hoy, Department of Philosophy, UCSC

On continental philosophy: final title to be announced

Readings to be added.

2. April 17

Gary Lease, History of Consciousness Department, UCSC

The politics of religion in 20th-century Germany

Readings:

Gary Lease, "Odd Fellows" in the Politics of Religion: Modernism, National Socialism, and German Judaism (Berlin: 1995).

(chapter 8: "The Origins of National Socialism: Some Fruits of Religion and Nationalism"
chapter 9: "Hitler's National Socialism as a Religious Movement"
chapter 13: "Prussian, Conservative, Jew but not German: Schoeps and German Nationalism")

Gary Lease: "Under the Shadows of Ideology," in: The Academic Study of Religion during the Cold War (New York 2001), 19-38
Fritz Heinrich: Die deutsche Religionswissenschaft und der Nationalsozialismus (2002)
Horst Junginger: Von der philologischen zur völkischer Religionswissenschaft (2000)
Gregory Alles: "Science of Religion in a Fascist State: Otto and Hover during the 3rd Reich," in: Religion 22 (2002), 177-204.

3. May 8

Edmund Burke, History Department, UCSC

Towards a comparative history of the modern Mediterranean

Readings (to be completed):

Hodgson, Marshall G. S., Rethinking world history: essays on Europe, Islam, and world history; edited, with an introduction and conclusion by Edmund Burke, III. Cambridge University Press, 1993.

4. (date to be announced)

Alain-Marc Rieu, History of Consciousness Department, UCSC

Europe and the concept of the modern

Readings:

Benjamin, Walter, Selected writings; edited by Marcus Bullock and Michael W. Jennings, Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996.
Europe Democratic Culture, G. Duprat & AM Rieu (ed.), London, Routledge, 1995 (vol. 2 of What is Europe?).

5. (date to be announced)

Wlad Godzich, Dean, Humanities Division, UCSC

The idea of a European Literature

Readings: (to be added)

Five courses:

AM Rieu:

No essence, no spirit, no ground, no center, no unity.
A dubious idea: the idea of Europe in Europe from the end of the 19th century until 1945.
Europe outside in: Europe from Japan
Europe and America: the endless debate.
Some present debates about the European Union (Enlargement, Constitution, etc.) from the point of view of social and political philosophy.

Each course also includes a presentation by one or two students.

Readings

This selection is designed to propose to participants papers, debates, and other individual or collective research. Explanations will be given during the first course on April 3. Articles will also be proposed (see at the end).

Basic and advanced information on the European Union is available at the EU web site:

Accessing European Union: http://www.eurunion.org/infores/resguide.htm
European Commission: http://europa.eu.int/comm/index_en.htm
Documents on European union / edited and translated by A. G. Harryvan and J. van der Harst. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997 (available at UCSC Library)

The following books will be available at UCSC Library. These four volumes were conceived and written in the early 1990s. One of the seminar's objective is to evaluate what has changed in the last 10 years. The world has changed; now the question "What is Europe?" can be answered in 2003.

Title What is Europe? / Edited by H.P. Baumeister (Germany), A-M Rieu (France), J. van Der Dussen (Netherlands), K. Wilson (U.K.) (ed.), , 4 volumes, 1,000 p.
Published 1st edition: London, Open University Press, 1993. 2nd édition: London, Routledge, 1995.
Vol. 1. The history of the idea of Europe. Vol. 2. European Democratic Culture. Vol. 3. Europe's cultural diversity. Vol. 4. Europe and the wider world.

Selected readings

All the following books are available at UCSC Library.

Author Garton Ash, Timothy
Title History of the present: essays, sketches, and dispatches from Europe in the 1990s
Published New York: Random House, c1999

Author Berlin, Isaiah, Sir
Title The crooked timber of humanity: chapters in the history of ideas / edited by Henry Hardy
Published New York: Vintage Books, 1992

Author Rougemont, Denis de, 1906-
Title The meaning of Europe. Translated from the French by Alan Braley.
Published New York, Stein and Day, 1965, c1953.

Author Hughes, H. Stuart (Henry Stuart), 1916-
Title Sophisticated rebels: the political culture of European dissent, 1968-1987
Published Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988.

Author Loth, Wilfried
Title Overcoming the Cold War: a history of détente, 1950-1991 / translated by Robert F. Hogg
Published New York: Palgrave, 2002

Author Konrád, György.
Title Antipolitics: an essay / translated from the Hungarian by Richard E. Allen.
Published San Diego: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, c1984.
Edition 1st ed.

Title Rethinking European order: West European responses, 1989-97 / edited by Robin Niblett and William Wallace
Published Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave, 2001

Title Europe, rethinking the boundaries / edited by Philomena Murray and Leslie Holmes
Published Aldershot [England]; Brookfield [Vt.] USA: Ashgate, c1998

Title European societies: fusion or fission? / edited by Thomas P. Boje, Bart van Steenbergen, and Sylvia Walby
Published London; New York: Routledge, 1999

Title Islam, Europe's second religion: the new social, cultural, and political landscape / edited by Shireen T. Hunter; foreword by Charles Buchanan
Published Westport, Conn.: Praeger, in cooperation with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C., 2002

Title Democratization in Eastern and Western Europe / editor, Frederick D. Weil; associate editors, Jeffrey Huffman, Mary Gautier.
Published Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, Inc., 1993.

Author Calleo, David P., 1934-
Title Rethinking Europe's future
Published Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c2001

Title Nation and identity in contemporary Europe / edited by Brian Jenkins and Spyros A. Sofos
Published London; New York: Routledge, 1996

Title Boundaries and place: European borderlands in geographical context / edited by David H. Kaplan and Jouni Häkli
Published Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, c2002

Author Kupchan, Charles
Title The end of the American era: U.S. foreign policy and the geopolitics of the twenty-first century
Published New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 2002

Author Howland, Douglas, 1955-
Title Translating the West: language and political reason in nineteenth-century Japan
Published Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, c2002

Author Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938
Unif. title Krisis der europäischen Wissenschaften und die transzendentale Phänomenologie. English
Title The crisis of European sciences and transcendental phenomenology; an introduction to phenomenological philosophy. Translated, with an introd., by David Carr
Published Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 1970

Author Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938.
"Philosophy and the crisis of the European Man" (the 1935 Vienna Lecture) in
Title Phenomenology and the crisis of philosophy
Published New York, Harper & Row [1965]

Author Nevin, Thomas R., 1944-
Title Ernst Jünger and Germany: into the abyss, 1914-1945
Published Durham [N.C.]: Duke University Press, 1996

Author Held, David
Title Models of democracy
Published Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, c1996
Edition 2nd ed

Author David Held and Anthony McGrew
Title Globalization/anti-globalization
Published Cambridge, U.K.: Polity; Oxford; Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2002

Author Mouffe, Chantal
Title The democratic paradox
Published London; New York: Verso, 2000

Title The challenge of Carl Schmitt / edited by Chantal Mouffe
Published London; New York: Verso, 1999

Author Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens and Scott Lash
Title Reflexive modernization: politics, tradition and aesthetics in the modern social order
Published Cambridge: Polity Press, 1994

Author Beck, Ulrich
Title World risk society
Published Cambridge: Polity Press; Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1999

Author Gadamer, Hans Georg, 1900-
Title Das Erbe Europas: Beiträge
Published Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1989.
Edition 1. Aufl.
French translation: L'héritage de l'Europe, Paris, Payot-Rivages, 1996.

Author Beecher, Jonathan
Title Victor Considerant and the rise and fall of French romantic socialism
Published Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001

Author Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.
Title Basic writings from Being and time (1927) to The task of thinking (1964), edited, with general introd. and introductions to each selection by David Farrell Krell.
Published New York, Harper & Row, c1976.
Edition 1st ed.

Author Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976
Unif. title Essays. English. Selections
Title Supplements: from the earliest essays to Being and time and beyond / edited by John van Buren
Published Albany: State University of New York Press, c2002

Author Jameson, Fredric
Title The cultural turn: selected writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998
Published London; New York: Verso, 1998

Author Jameson, Fredric.
Title The geopolitical aesthetic: cinema and space in the world system
Published Bloomington: Indiana University Press; London: BFI Pub., 1992.

Author Dumont, Louis, 1911-
Title From Mandeville to Marx: the genesis and triumph of economic ideology
Published Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977.

Author Rabinow, Paul
Title Essays on the anthropology of reason
Published Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1996

Author Rabinow, Paul.
Title French modern: norms and forms of the social environment
Published Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c1989.

Title The early political writings of the German romantics / edited and translated by Frederick C. Beiser
Published Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996

Author Beiser, Frederick C., 1949-
Title Enlightenment, revolution, and romanticism: the genesis of modern German political thought, 1790-1800
Published Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992.

Title Bourgeois society in nineteenth-century Europe / edited by Jürgen Kocka and Allen [i.e. Allan] Mitchell.
Published Oxford; Providence: Berg, 1993.

Author Koschmann, J. Victor
Title Revolution and subjectivity in postwar Japan
Published Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996

Author Pomeranz, Kenneth
Title The great divergence: Europe, China, and the making of the modern world economy
Published Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c2000

Author Chakrabarty, Dipesh
Title Provincializing Europe: postcolonial thought and historical difference
Published Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c2000

Title Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam: politics, culture, and citizenship in the age of globalization / edited by Nezar AlSayyad and Manuel Castells
Published Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books; Berkeley: CMES, University of California , c2002

Articles (list to be completed)

All articles from the New York Review of Books by Stanley Hoffman, Tony Judt, etc.
Robert Kagan, "Power and Weakness," Stanford Hoover Institute, Policy Review Papers, no 113, June 2002. http://www.policyreview.org/JUN02/kagan_print.html
Paul Lubeck, "The challenge of Islamic networks and citizenship claims: Europe's painful adjustment to Globalization," in Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam: politics, culture, and citizenship in the age of globalization / edited by Nezar AlSayyad and Manuel Castells, Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2002, p 69-90.
Paul Bove, "Giving thought to America: Intellect and the Education of Henry Adams," Critical Inquiry 23 (Autumn 1996).

To be mentioned: lectures organized by the Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley.

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