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| New College Spring
Semester 20001 Semester Length MTH:1-2.30 Instructor: Silvia Federici Office Hours MTH: 11-1 E-mail: NUCSZF@Hofstra.Edu |
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Syllabus |
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| 1/29 | Introduction. On the origins of Social Science |
| 2/1 |
The develoment of capitalism
and the nation-state |
| 2/5 | The Social
Contract and the rise of Political Science Reading: Locke, Second Treatise on Government |
| 2/8 | The Social
Contract and the rise of political Science II. Reading: Locke, Second Treatise on Government |
| 2/12 | The Enlightenment
and the Promise of a Scientific Society. Reading: Condorcet "The Progress of the Human Mind," excerpt from Richard GreavesÕ et al. Civilization of the West, pp. 569-577 |
| 2/15 | The Enlightenment,
Legal reform and Human Rights. Reading: From Cesare Beccaria: "Of Crimes and Punishments" |
| 2/22 | The Enlightenment
Realized Reading: The "Declaration of the Rights of Man," the American "Declaration of Independence"and J. P. DogginsÕ "Science and the American Experiment" |
| 2/26 | Mary Woolstonecraft
and the feminist critique of the Enlightenment: Reading: Women and the French Revolution; "Mary Woolstonecraft , The First Feminist." |
| 2/27 | Slavery preserved Reading: Frederick Douglass, "What to the slave is the Fourth of July?" (hand out) and C.L.R. James on the question of slavery in the French Revolutionary Parliament. |
| 3/1 | Adam Smith
and the Origins of Political Economy Reading: Heilbronner, Chapter III, "The Wonderful World Adam Smith." |
| 3/5 | Adam Smith
on the power of science applied to production. Reading: Adam Smith on the division of labor in "The Wealth of Nations." |
| 3/8 | Malthus and
the origin of demographic thought Reading: Heilbronner, WP, Chapter VI, "The Gloomy Presentiments." |
| 3/12 | The Social
background to Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus Reading: Mary Shelly's Frankenstein |
| 3/15 | Feminist and
abolitionist themes in "Frankesteins." Reading: Mary Shelly's Frankenstein |
| 3/19 | Frankestein
and the critique of Modern Science and Society. Reading: Mary Shelly's Frankenstein |
| 3/22 | MIDTERM |
| 3/26 | Utopian Socialism
as the scientific cure to Modern society's ills. Reading: Heilbronner, Chapter V, "The Visions of the Utopian Socialists" |
| 3/29 | Karl Marx
and historical materialism Reading: Heilbronner, Chapter VI, "The Inexorable System of Karl Marx" |
| 4/2 | Karl Marx’
critique of Reading: Marx's Communist Manifesto (hand out) |
| 4/5 | Anarchism
and the Rejection of Authority Reading: excerpts from ThoreauÕs Walden and Civil Disobedience; Bakunin, "Principles and Organization of the International Brotherhood." |
| 4/19 | Darwin's
Evolutionary Theory: Malthus applied to Nature Reading: Darwin's Origins of the Species (hand out) First draft of the paper due. |
| 4/23 | Darwin's Evolutionary
Theory applied to Society Reading: excerpts from HofstadterÕs Social Darwinism in American Thought, and ShipmanÕs Evolution of Racism |
| 4/26 | Freud and
the Limits of a Conscious Scientific Social Life Film: Freud Under Analysis |
| 4/30 | Freud and
the Power of the Unconscious in Social Life Reading: FreudÕs "One of the Difficulties of Psychoanalysis" |
| 5/1 | Virginia Woolf
and the beginning of women’s studies Reading: excerpts from WoolfÕs A Room of One's Own. |
| 5/3 | W.E.B. Du
Bois, the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Revolution Film: WEB Du Bois and his Life |
| 5/7 | The Black
Critique of Social Science I Reading: Du Bois' "Perspectives on History." (hand out) |
| 5/10 | The viewpoint
of the "Other" The anti-colonial movement. Theories and Strategies Reading: excerpts from CeasaireÕs Return to the Native Land and FanonÕs Wretched of the Earth (hand out) |
| 5/14 | Where are the social sciences now? 1.Multiculturalism, postmodernism, Network theory. |
| 5/17 | Final Exam. Paper due. |