ECT seminar 2011 Begins
ECT seminar 2011 Philosophy, Art, and Politics
1. Jan. 6 Introduction: Plato, Platonism, and Anti-Platonism Plato, The Republic Alain Badiou, “Art and Philosophy” from Handbook of Inaesthetics Jacques Rancière, selections from The Politics of Aesthetics
*2. Jan. 13 Eleanor Kaufman and Ken Reinhard, “Plato’s Republic and Badiou’s” Plato, The Republic Alain Badiou, Hypertranslation of Plato’s Republic (selections) Jacques Rancière, “Plato’s Lie” from The Philosopher and His Poor Part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4
Jan. 18 ECT Symposium: Eleanor Kaufman, “Jewish Apostasy from Paul to Simone Weil” (12:00-2:00, Royce 306)3. Jan. 20 John McCumber on Aristotle Aristotle, Poetics; Politics I; Nicomachean Ethics III 6-9 (on courage) John McCumber, “Aristotelian Catharsis and the Purgation of Woman”
4. Jan. 27 Kant on Aesthetic Judgment Kant, Critique of Judgment Hannah Arendt, Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy (selections) Jean-François Lyotard, Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime (selections)
5. Feb. 3 Kant and Schiller on Aesthetic Education Kant, cont.; Schiller, On the Aesthetic Education of Man (selections) Jacques Rancière, “The Aesthetic Revolution and Its Outcomes” Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe & Jean-Luc Nancy, The Literary Absolute (selections)
6. Feb. 10 Hegel on Culture and Terror Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit (selections) Jean Hyppolite, Genesis and Structure of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (selections)
7. Feb. 17 Hegel on Art and Tragedy Hegel, Lectures on Aesthetics (selections) Beat Wyss, Hegel’s Art History and the Critique of Modernity (selections)
Feb. 22 Bruno Bosteels lecture: “Decadence, Aesthetics, and Grand Politics” (5:00 Royce 314)
8. Feb. 24 Bruno Bosteels on Nietzsche Alain Badiou, “Breaking in Two the History of the World?” Alberto Moreiras, Exhaustion of Difference, selections Bruno Bosteels on Moreiras and Esposito
March 1 ECT Symposium: Sianne Ngai, “Minor Aesthetic Categories” (6:00, Royce 306)9. March 3 Heidegger, Politics, Art Heidegger, “The Origin of the Work of Art,” “What are Poets For?” Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Heidegger, Art and Politics: The Fiction of the Political (selections), Heidegger and the Politics of Poetry (selections)
10. March 10 Kristin Ross, “Marx’s Realist Intention” Marx and Engels, The Civil War in France Marx/Zasulich correspondence Raymond Williams, “A Lecture on Realism”
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