Online Readings

The following are links to the online readings that I have readily accessible.  For all other online readings, go to the university article databases at the Thomas Cooper Library website.


September 12              Anthropology and History: the Example of Clifford Geertz

Special edition of Representations (The Fate of "Culture": Geertz and Beyond)  59 (Summer 1997).  See, in order, Sherry B. Ortner (introduction); Stephen Greenblatt; Renato I. Rosaldo, Jr.; William H. Sewell, Jr.; George E. Marcus; Lila Abu-Lughod; Sherry B. Ortner.

 

September 19              Marx and Marxisms

Reader:

Georg Lukàcs,  "Class Consciousness" (1920); "The Phenomenon of Reification" and "The Standpoint of the Proletariat" (1923).

Karl Marx, "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon." (1869).

Friedrich Engels,   "The Peasant War in Germany" (1850)

 

September 26              The Frankfurt School

Reader: 

Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer, "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception," from The Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944).

Herbert Marcuse, "Aggressiveness in Advanced Industrial Society" (1968).

 

October 3                    Deconstruction and the Coherency of Writing

Reader:

Jacques Derrida, chapter 2, in Of Grammatology (1967).

Jacques Derrida, "What is Ideology?," in Specters of Marx, the State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, & the New International (1994).

 

October 24                  Gender

Joan Hoff, "Gender as a Postmodern Category of Paralysis," Women's History Review 3:2 (1994): 149-68. 

 

November 14               Imperialism

Peter Heehs, "Shades of Orientalism: Paradoxes and Problems in Indian Historiography," History and Theory 42 (May 2003), 169-195.

Dipesh Chakrabarty, "Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History: Who Speaks for Indian Pasts," Representations 37 (1992): 1-26.