AMENDED SCHEDULE FOR MODULE 3
Thursday November 6 and Tuesday November 11: Pure or Transcendental Phenomenology:
Required: Edmund Husserl Phenomenology [1927] (pp. 658-664 in Adams and Searle)
Recommended: Kearney, Richard. "Edmund Husserl." Modern Movements in European Philosophy: Phenomenology, Critical Theory, Structuralism. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1994. 12-27.
Notes: 10A Husserl "Phenomenology"
Thursday November 13, 2008: Phenomenological Literary Theory:
Required: Wolfgang Iser "The Reading Process: a Phenomenological Approach" [1972] (pp. 274-294 in The Implied Reader) [FOLDER]
Recommended: Holub, Robert C. Reception Theory: a Critical Introduction. London: Methuen, 1984.
Tuesday November 18: Existentialism:
Required:
Jean-Paul Sartre
Existentialism and Humanism [1946] [FOLDER]
"Why Write?" [1948] (pp. 984-992 in Adams; also pp. 1136-1349 in Leitch)
Recommended: Kearney, Richard. "Jean-Paul Sartre." Modern Movements in European Philosophy: Phenomenology, Critical Theory, Structuralism. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1994. 51-72.
Notes:
Thursday November 20: Hermeneutics:
Required: Hans-Georg Gadamer Truth and Method [1960]: Selections (pp. 840-854 in Adams and Searle)
Recommended: Palmer, Richard E. "Gadamer's Dialectical Hermeneutics" and "Gadamer's Critique of Modern Aesthetic and Historical Consciousness." Hermeneutics: Interpretation Theory in Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger and Gadamer. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1979. 194-217 and 162-193.
Notes: 11C Gadamer Truth and Method
Tuesday November 25: Phenomenological Postcolonial Theory I:
Required: Frantz Fanon
Black Skin White Masks [1952]:
Ch. 1: "The Negro and Language"
Ch. 5: "The Fact of Blackness"
Ch. 7: "The Negro and Recognition"
The Wretched of the Earth [1961]:
Ch. 1: "Concerning Violence" (also in folder)
Recommended: Gordon, Lewis. "Introduction." Existence in Black: an Anthology of Black Existential Philosophy. London: Routledge, 1997. 1-9.
Notes:
Thursday November 27: Postcolonial Theory in general
Professor David Scott of Columbia University, a visiting lecturer to Cave Hill, will meet with us to discuss various aspects of Postcolonial Theory
Tuesday December 2: Phenomenological Postcolonial Theory II / Exam Advice:
Required:
Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth [1961]:Ch. 4: "On National Culture" (pp. 1587-1593 in Leitch)
George Lamming "The Negro Writer and his World" [1956] (pp. 35-44 in his Essays, Addresses and Interviews, ed. Andaiye and Richard Drayton, et al.) [FOLDER]
Recommended: Gordon, Lewis. "Introduction." Existence in Black: an Anthology of Black Existential Philosophy. London: Routledge, 1997. 1-9.
Notes: