FAS-PK | World Building: Continental Philosophy for the World: Syllabus Readings

Week 1: Introduction: Hypothesis of the Course

Week 2: Society and Civilization: Sigmund Freud: Civilization and Its Discontents

Week 3: Society and Civilization: From Oedipal to Post-Oedipal Worlds

Readings:

• Rousselle, D. (2022) “Psychoanalysis in Exile: Ramblings Without a World,” European Journal of Psychoanalysis from Psychoanalysis in Exile: Ramblings without a World - European Journal of Psychoanalysis

Reading:

• Sigmund, F. (1930) “Civilization and Its Discontents,” [excerpt]. from https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Freud_SE_Civ_and_Dis_complete.pdf
• Adam, C, dir. (2002) “The Century of the Self,”  from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3msdIczCtjA

Reading:

• Alain, B. (2002) “Preface,” in Logics of Worlds (Alberto Toscano, Trans.). Continuum Books. from https://firewords.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/logics_of_worlds.pdf

Week 4: Society and Civilization 2: George Ritzer: Prosumer Capitalism

Week-5: World Systems: Wittgenstien, Huntington, and Dugin, Niklas Luhmann

Week 6: Linguistic Worlds: Leibniz and the Linguistic Turn

Reading:

• George, R. (2015) “Prosumer Capitalism,” The Sociological Quarterly. Vol. 56., No. 3. from https://www.jstor.org/stable/24581845

Reading:

• Rousselle, D. (2020) “How Do Systems Fall in Love?,” International Sociological Association e-Bulletin.  from https://esymposium.isaportal.org/resource/how-do-systems-fall-in-love/
• Wittgenstein, L. (1921) Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. from https://dl1.cuni.cz/pluginfile.p-%20Tractatus%20Logico-Philosophicus.pdf
• Samuel, P. (1996) The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. Penguin. from httpslashOfCivilizationsrldOrder.pdf

Reading:

• Gottfried, W. (1898) Monadology. from https://www.plato-philosophy.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/The-Monadology-1714-by-Gottfried-Wilhelm-LEIBNIZ-1646-1716.pdf

Week 7: Linguistic Worlds: Heidegger and the Linguistic Turn

Week 8: Dr. Graham Harman Guest Lecture

Week 9: Outside Worlds: Reiner Schurmann, Jacques-Alain Miller, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida

Reading:

• Heidegger, M. (1938) “The Age of the World Picture” or “The Age of the World-View” from https://www.jstor.org/stable/302139

Reading: 

• Harman, G. (2018) Object Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything. Penguin. from https://www.penguin.co.ut-oriented-ontology-by-harman-graham/9780241269176

Reading:

• Gaston, S. (2011) “Derrida and the End of the World,” New Literary History. 42, 3. from https://www.jstor.org/stable/41328979
• Foucault, M. (1966) “The Prose of the World,” The Order of Things from https://www.routledge.com/The-Order-of-Things/Foucault/p/book/9780415267373

Week 10: Performative Worlds: Erving Goffman and Judith Butler

Week 11: Historical Worlds: Marx, Zizek, and Hegel

Week 12: Chaotic Worlds: Nietzsche and Gilles Deleuze: The World is Schizophrenic

Reading:

• Butler, J. (1988) “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution,” Theatre. from https://www.amhe50/butler_performative_acts.pdf
• Goffman, E. (2956) The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. from https/Goffman_Ervintatiof_Self_in_Everyday_Life.pdf

Reading:

• Karl, M. (1844) “Estranged Labor,” in Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. from https://www.marxdownload/pdf/Economic-Philosophic-Manuscripts-1844.pdf
• Zizek, S. (1992) “The Night of the World,” in Enjoy Your Symptom. from https://zizekstudies.org/index.php/IJZS/artic/104

Reading:

• Nietzsche, F. (1883) Thus Spake Zarathustra. from https://safari.library.aku.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/?ps=R4ghLS0kxm/FK/X/123
• Foucault, M. & Deleuze, G. (1972) “Introduction,” and “Anti-Oedipus,” in Anti-Oedipus. from https://files.libcom.org/files/Anti-Oedipus.pdf

Week 13: Mad Worlds: Marie-Helene Brousse and Lacan

Reading:

Russell, G. ed. (2024) “Psychoanalysis in the World,” PsychoanalysisLacan. from https://lacancircle.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Psychoanalysis-in-the-World.pdf