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対照言語文化分析I
Melancholy and the Left
This course will consider the complex and fraught relationship between left-wing thought and melancholy. We will approach this relationship from three overlapping perspectives:
1) Tracing how melancholy appears within left-wing writing and theory, particularly within reflection on moments of historical defeat, disillusionment, or loss of utopian energies;
2) Considering the hypothesis that melancholy does not merely manifest itself in leftist thought but actively mobilizes it, shaping its very political orientation;
3) Analyzing how leftist thinkers have interpreted melancholic-related conditions and affects such as nostalgia, amnesia, loss, and depression as they form and circulate in capitalist and late capitalist society.
These perspectives are not thematically discrete, but interwoven approaches that will manifest themselves to varying degrees in each of our weekly readings and inform our class discussions in shifting combinations.
1) Tracing how melancholy appears within left-wing writing and theory, particularly within reflection on moments of historical defeat, disillusionment, or loss of utopian energies;
2) Considering the hypothesis that melancholy does not merely manifest itself in leftist thought but actively mobilizes it, shaping its very political orientation;
3) Analyzing how leftist thinkers have interpreted melancholic-related conditions and affects such as nostalgia, amnesia, loss, and depression as they form and circulate in capitalist and late capitalist society.
These perspectives are not thematically discrete, but interwoven approaches that will manifest themselves to varying degrees in each of our weekly readings and inform our class discussions in shifting combinations.
時間割／共通科目コード
コース名
教員
学期
時限
31D200-0631A
GAS-LI6C05L3
対照言語文化分析I
ペティート ジョシュア
金曜3限
マイリストに追加
マイリストから削除
講義使用言語
英語
単位
2
実務経験のある教員による授業科目
NO
他学部履修
可
開講所属
総合文化研究科
授業計画
1. Karl Marx, “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte”
Sigmund Freud, “Mourning and Melancholia”
Walter Benjamin, “On the Concept of History” (Theses on the Philosophy of History)
2. Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life (excerpts)
3. T.J. Clark, Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism (excerpts)
4. Kristin Ross, May ’68 and Its Afterlives (excerpts)
Alain Badiou, The Communist Hypothesis (excerpts)
5. Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx: The State of Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International (excerpts)
6. Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (excerpts)
7. Andreas Huyssen, Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia (excerpts)
8. Boris Buden, Transition to Nowhere: Art in History after 1989 (excerpts)
9. Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (excerpts)
Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures (excerpts)
10. Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, Quit Everything: Interpreting Depression (excerpts)
11. Judith Butler, The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection (excerpts)
12. Wendy Brown, “Wounded Attachments”
Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism (excerpts)
13. Wendy Brown, “Resisting Left Melancholia”
J.K. Gibson-Graham, A Postcapitalist Politics (excerpts)
Jodi Dean, The Communist Horizon (excerpts)
14. T.J. Clark, “For a Left with No Future”
Enzo Traverso, Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory (excerpts)
15. Ernst Bloch, The Utopian Function of Art and Literature (excerpts)
At the conclusion of every session, questions on topics related to discussion in class will be made available on the UTOL bulletin board to provide additional exchange and Q&A among participants, equivalent to 15 minutes of class time.
授業の方法
Each week student volunteers will present that week’s readings by highlighting the principal arguments, drawing the class’s attention to key passages, and raising questions about or generated by the text. This will provide the class with the framework to further explore the readings in our ensuing class discussion.
成績評価方法
Grades will be determined based on class presentations, consistent participation in discussions, and a final paper to be submitted at the conclusion of the semester.
教科書
Readings will be made available in PDF form.
参考書
Enzo Traverso. Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.
履修上の注意
Auditors are only permitted to take the class as long as they are willing to fulfill the course requirements listed above.
