Phil 2632 Unit of Study Guide

PHIL2632 Modernity in Crisis
Unit Description
This unit continues the themes developed in Theorising Modernity into the Twentieth Century. We will see how the new realities of free markets,
democracy, the state and bureaucracy, individualism and cultural rationalisation presented new problems and opportunities and gave rise to new
theoretical frameworks for their comprehension. The unit will focus on the work of Weber, The Frankfurt School, Foucault and Habermas.
Prerequisites
12 Junior credit points in Philosophy
Learning Structure
1x2 hour lecture and 1x1 hour tutorial per week
Class Times and Locations
Lecture
Tuesday 10AM - 12PM, SNH Lecture Theatre 3003 A31
Tutorial
Tuesday 1PM - 2PM, Gunn Seminar Room 648 B19
Tuesday 2PM - 3PM, Gunn Seminar Room 648 B19
Learning Outcomes
Description
Graduate Qualities
A B C D E F
Learning outcomes Broad Objectives and Generic Skills 1. To learn
reading and writing skills specific to philosophy but which also have a
wider relevance and application across other disciplines and everyday
life. 2. To gain knowledge of the history of philosophy, to interpret texts
and identify key issues and debates. 3. To apply this theoretical
knowledge to orientation in the contemporary world 4. To promote
interpersonal and oral presentation skills in the tutorial context Student
Learning Outcomes 1. Student should improve their analytical and
critical abilities in philosophical work both written and oral. 2. A deeper
knowledge both of theoretical reflection on modernity and understanding
of the dynamics of modern societies. 3. An increased awareness of the
way in which human understanding and reflection is conditioned by
history and culture.
Details of the Graduate Qualities can be found in the Appendix
Unit Schedule
Semester 1 2017
Week Week Beginning Lecture Tutorial
1 6 March Intro: The Changing
Face of Modernity
2 13 March Intro (cont) + Weber
and Modernity as
Rationalisation
Intro Meeting and
Division of Tut Papers
3 20 March The Task of the Modern
Subject
A Tourraine’ A Critical
View of Modernity’
4 27 March The Struggle of the
Gods
Weber M ‘Science as a
Vocation’
Week Week Beginning Lecture Tutorial
5 3 April FFrankfurt School: The
Fully Administered
Society
Weber M ‘Politics as a
Vocation’
6 10 April DialDialectic of
Enlightenment and the
Cultural Industry
HHorkheimer M ‘Rise
and Decline of the
Individual’
17 April Session Break
7 24 April FoFoucault: The
Madness of Reason
and Genealogy
Adorno T W ‘The
Culture Industry’
8 1 May The Carceral Society Foucault M
‘Panopticism’
9 8 May Power, Subjectivity and
Critique
Foucault M. The Ethics
of the Care of the Self
10 15 May Heller: The Dissatisfied
Society
Heller A ‘The
Dissatisfied Society’
11 22 May The Logics of Modernity Heller A ‘On Being
Satisified in the
Dissatisfied Society’ 1 &
2
12 29 May Mass Culture and Being
Satisfied in the
Dissatisfied Society
13 5 June
12 June Stuvac
19 June Exam Period
26 June Exam Period
Attendance
According to Faculty Board Resolutions, students in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences are expected to attend 80% of their classes. If you attend
less than 50% of classes, regardless of the reasons, you may be referred to the Examiner’s Board. The Examiner’s Board will decide whether you
should pass or fail the unit of study if your attendance falls below this threshold.
If a unit of study has a participation mark, your attendance may influence this mark.
For more information on attendance, see http://sydney.edu.au/arts/current_students/policies.shtml.
Reading Requirements
Further Reading:
General Introductory
*Polanyi, K. The Great Transformation Beacon Press, Boston, 1957
Laslett, P. The World We have Lost, Methuen, 1965
*Osterhammel, J. The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century Princeton University Press, 2014
Fritzsche, P. Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History, Harvard University Press, 2004
*Judt, T. Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 William Heinemann, London, 2006
Wasserstein, B. Barbarism & Civilisation: A History of Europe in Our Time Oxford University Press, 2007
Berman, M. All That is Solid Melts Into Air New York, 1982
Gumbrecht, H.U. ‘ A History of the Concept “Modern” ’ Making Sense in Life and Literature , University of Minnesota
Press, Minneapolis, 1992
Coser, R.L. In Defense of Modernity: Role Complexity and Individual Autonomy Stanford University Press, 1991
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Jervis, J. Exploring the Modern: Patterns of Western Culture and Civilisation, Blackwell, Oxford, 1998
*Pippin, R B. Modernism as a Philosophical Problem, Oxford, 1991
Habermas, J. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity Polity, Cambridge, 1987
Therborn, G. European Modernity and Beyond: The Trajectory of European Societies
1945-2000, Sage, London 1995
Touraine, A. Critique of Modernity Blackwell, 1995
Giddens, A. The Consequences of Modernity Polity, Cambridge, 1990
Wagner, P. A Sociology of Modernity Routledge, 1994
Wagner, P. Theorising Modernity Sage, London, 2001
Wagner, P. Modernity as Experience and Interpretation: A New Sociology of Modernity Polity, Cambridge, 2008
*Wagner, P. Modernity: Understanding the Present Polity, London, 2012
Ferrara. A. Reflective Authenticity: Rethinking the Project of Modernity Routledge, London, 1998
Szakoczai, A. The Genesis of Modernity Routledge, 2002
Heller, A. A Theory of Modernity, Blackwell, 1999
Bauman, Z. Liquid Modernity, Polity, 2000
Rose, M.A. The Post-Modern and the Post-Industrial: A Critical Analysis Cambridge
University Press, 1991
Yack, B. The Fetishism of Modernities University of Notre Dame Press, 1997
MacFarlane, A. The Riddle of the Modern World McMillan, London, 2000
Goody, J, Capitalism and Modernity: The Great Debate Polity, 2004
Hardt, M& Negri, A. Empire Harvard University Press, 2000
Mc Carthy, G.E Romancing Antiquity: German Critique of the Enlightenment from Weber to Habermas Rowman &Littlefield Lanham,
Maryland, 1997
Weber
Weber, M. 'Science as a Vocation' and 'Politics As a Vocation From Max Weber Routledge &Kegan Paul,
London, 1947
*Weber, M. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Allen & Unwin, 1976
Weber. M. General Economic History Transaction Books, 1981 Part Four
*Kalberg, S. (Ed) Max Weber: Readings and Commentary on Modernity Blackwell, Oxford, 2005-06-16
*Kim, S H. Max Weber’s Politics of Civil Society Cambridge University Press, 2004
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Whimster, S & Lash, S. Max Weber, Rationality and Modernity (Selection of essays: some on our theme)
*Sayer, D. Capitalism and Modernity: An Excursus on Marx and Weber Routledge, 1991
*Szakolczai, A. Max Weber and Michel Foucault: Parallel Life Works Routledge, Part 1&2 1998
*Turner, C. Modernity and Politics in the Work of Max Weber Routledge, London, 1992
Löwith. K. Max Weber and Karl Marx Allen & Unwin, London, 1982
*Scaff, L A. Fleeing The Iron Cage University of California Press, 1989
Turner, B S. Max Weber: From History to Modernity Routledge, 1992
Schluchter,W. The Paradoxes of Modernity Stanford University Press, 1996
*Offe, C. Reflections on America: Tocqueville, Weber and Adorno in the United States Polity, Cambridge, 2005, Chapter 3
*Schecter, D. The Critique of Instrumental Reason From Weber to Habermas Continuum, London, 2010, Chapter 1
Breen, K. Under Weber’s Shadow” Modernity, Subjectivity and Politics in Habermas, Arendt and MacIntyre Ashgate, 2012
Horkheimer and Adorno
*Adorno, T. W. & Horkheimer, M. Dialectic of Enlightenment Stanford, 2002
Horkheimer, M. Eclipse of Reason Continuum, 1974
Adorno T W Minima Moralia NLB, London, 1974
*Jay, M. The Dialectical Imagination Heinemann, London, 1973 Ch 6&8
*Wiggerhaus, R. The Frankfurt School: Its History, Theories and Political Significance M I T, 1994
Müller-Doohm, S. Adorno: A Biography Polity Cambridge. 2005
*Abromeit, J, Max Horkheimer and the Foundations of the Frankfurt School Cambridge University Press.Cambridge, 2011
*Habermas, J. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity Polity, Cambridge, 1987, Ch 5
*Honneth, A. Pathologies of Reason: On the Legacy of Critical Theory Columbia University Press, 2009, Chapters 3,4
Jeffries, S. Grand Hotel Abys: The Lives of the Frankfurt School Verso, London, 2016
Cook, D. The Culture Industry Revisited Rowman &Littlefield, 1996
Jenemann, D. Adorno in America University of Minnesota Press, 2007
Rabinbach, A. In the Shadow of Catastrophe: German Intellectuals between Apocalypse and Enlightenment University of California Press,
Chapter 5, 1997
*Offe, C. Reflections on America: Tocqueville, Weber and Adorno in the United States Polity, Cambridge, 2005, Chapter 4
*Schecter, D. The Critique of Instrumental Reason From Weber to Habermas Continuum, London, 2010, Chapter 3&4
Foucault
*Foucault, M. Discipline and Punish Penguin, London, 1977
*Foucault, M. The History of Sexuality Vol 1, Penguin, 1978
(Ed) Kritzman L D, Michel Foucault: Politics, Philosophy and Culture Interviews and Other Writings 1977-84,
Routledge, 1988
*Miller, J. The Passion of Michel Foucault Simon & Schuster, 1993
Koopman, C. Genealogy As Critique: Foucault and the Problems of Modernity Indiana University Press, Chapters 5, 6,
2013
Lemke, T. Biopolitics: An Advanced Introduction New York University Press, New York, 2011, Chapter 3
Lemke, T. Foucault, Governmentality, and Critique Paradigm, Boulder, Colorado 2011
Rajchman, J,.Michel Foucault: The Freedom of Philosophy Columbia University Press, 1985
*Dumm, T L. Michel Foucault and the Politics of Freedom Sage 1996, Chs 3, 4
*Honneth, A. Critique of Power, M I T, 1992
Bernauer, J. Michel Foucault's Force of Flight: Towards an Ethics of Thought, Humanities Press, 1992
*Simons, J. Foucault and the Political Routledge, 1995
Szakolczai, A. Max Weber and Michel Foucault: Parallel Life Works Routledge, Part 1&3 1998
*Hain, B. Foucault’s Critical Project Stanford, 2002
*Veyne, P. Foucault: His Thought, His Character Polity, Oxford, 2010
Heller
*Heller, A. A Theory of Modernity Blackwell, Oxford, 1999
‘Dissatisfied Society’The Power of Shame, Routledge & Kegan Paul. London, 1985
*Grumley, J. Agnes Heller: A Moralist in the Vortex of History Pluto Press, London, 2005
*Tormey, S. Agnes Heller: Socialism, Autonomy and the Postmodern Manchester University Press, 2001
*Burnheim L (Ed) The Scoial Philosophy of Agnes Heller Rodophi. Amsterdam, 1994
*Terezakis, K. (Ed) Engaging Agnes Heller: A Critical Companion Lexington Books, New York, 2009
Online Components
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computer and the internet to use the LMS. The University uses learning analytics to understand student participation on the LMS and improve the
student learning experience.
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Lecture Recording
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on lecture recording to substitute your classroom learning experience.
Assessment Tasks and Due Dates
Assessment Name Individual / Group Assessment Type Length Weight Due Time Due Date
essay Individual 2000wd 50% 11:59PM Monday, 22 May
2017
take-home exam Individual 2000wd 40% 11:59PM Monday, 5 June
2017
Assessment Criteria
This unit uses standards-based assessment for award of assessment marks. Your assessments will be evaluated solely on the basis of your individual
performance
Submission of Assessments
Compliance Statements
All students are required to submit an authorised statement of compliance with all work submitted to the University for assessment, presentation or
publication. A statement of compliance certifies that no part of the work constitutes a breach of the Academic Honesty in Coursework Policy 2016.
The format of the compliance statement will be in the form of:
1. a University assignment cover sheet; or
2. a University electronic form.
Assessment Submission
Submission of assessment tasks will be required by the due date. Written assessments must be submitted online through the LMS. Other assessments,
for example visual or oral assessments, must be submitted according to the assessment instructions.
Work not submitted on or before the due date are subject to a penalty of 2% per day late. Refer to
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Academic Dishonesty and Plagiarism
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University is opposed to and will not tolerate academic dishonesty or plagiarism, and will treat all allegations of academic dishonesty and plagiarism
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Definitions
According to the Policy, plagiarism means representing another person’s work (i.e., ideas, findings or words) as one’s own work by presenting, copying
or reproducing it without appropriate acknowledgement of the source. Academic dishonesty means seeking to obtain or obtaining academic
advantage for oneself or others (including in the assessment or publication of work) by dishonest or unfair means. Academic dishonesty includes, but is
not limited to:
l Resubmission (or recycling) of work that is the same, or substantially the same as work previously submitted for assessment in the same or in a
different unit of study. Every unit of study expects each student to produce new material based upon research conducted in that unit;
l Dishonest plagiarism;
l Engaging another person to complete or contribute to an assessment in your place; and
l Various forms of misconduct in examinations (including copying from another student and taking prohibited materials into an examination venue).
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have previously been submitted to Turnitin for analysis.
There will always be some degree of text-matching when using Turnitin. Text-matching may occur in use of direct quotations, technical terms and
phrases, or the listing of bibliographic material. This does not mean you will automatically be accused of academic dishonesty or plagiarism, although
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