Recommended Readings, Modern & Postmodern, A coursera course

Created on: 05 Sep 21 11:04 +0700 by Sonnguyen9800 in English

A list of extra reading & resources provided in the course syllabus.

book philosophy

Course Name:

Modern and Postmodern (Part 1)

Sources:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/modern-postmodern-1/supplement/ra3q3/syllabus

Extra Reading:

The below reading & list of essays are copied from the original site. You can always visit the link above to enroll the course officially. Note that the audit option & financial aid is alway available.

2. Extra Reading on each module

Module 1: Why is philosophy relevant to modernity?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “Discourse on the Arts and Sciences” http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/r/rousseau/jean_jacques/arts/

Immanuel Kant, “What is Enlightenment?” http://ebooks.gutenberg.us/WorldeBookLibrary.com/whatenli.htm

Module 2: What is Enlightenment?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “Discourse on the Origins of Inequality” http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11136

Module 3: From Enlightenment to Revolution

Karl Marx, “Estranged Labor” from 1844 Manuscripts http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm/

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto" http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61

Begin reading Madame Bovary (Modern Library, trans. Lydia Davis) http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2413

Module 4: Modernism and Art for Art’s Sake

Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2413

Module 5: Re-Imagining the World

Charles Darwin, “Struggle for Existence,” “Natural Selection” from The Origin of Species (6th edition) http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1228

Charles Darwin, “Conclusion” from The Descent of Man http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2300

Module 6: From Struggle to Intensity

Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen (Original French): http://baudelaire.litteratura.com/le_spleen_de_paris.php; see Google Books for more sources http://books.google.com/books/about/Paris_Spleen.html?id=15craP5h4O4C (Google Books itself has many of the poems at this page, but NOT ALL poems are available online)

Friedrich Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals, essay 2 http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/Nietzsche/genealogytofc.htm

Course Name:

Modern and Postmodern (Part 2)

Sources:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/modern-postmodern-2/supplement/ENg6D/syllabus

Extra Reading on each module

Module 1: Intensity and the Ordinary: Sex, Death, Aggression and Guilt

Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its Discontents http://archive.org/details/CivilizationAndItsDiscontents

Module 2: Intensity and the Ordinary: Art, Loss, Forgiveness

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91t/contents.html

Module 3: The Postmodern Everyday

Emerson, “Experience” or “Self-Reliance” http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Essays:_First_Series/Self-Reliance

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Selections from Philosophical Investigations (specifically paragraphs 1-20, 65-80, and 100-125) Full-text and commentary by Lois Shawver: http://gormendizer.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Ludwig.Wittgenstein.-.Philosophical.Investigations.pdf, (aphorisms 1-10) http://users.rcn.com/rathbone/lw1-10c.htm and (aphorisms 11-20) http://users.rcn.com/rathbone/lw11-20c.htm

Module 4: From Critical Theory to Postmodernism

Horkheimer and Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment, Chapter 1 From Stanford University Press: http://www.sup.org/html/book_pages/0804736324/Chapter%201.pdf

Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization chapter on the Great Confinement. Full text at: http://archive.org/details/MichelFoucaultMadnessAndCivilization

Michel Foucault,"What is Enlightenment?," Foucault Reader http://foucault.info/documents/whatIsEnlightenment/foucault.whatIsEnlightenment.en.html

Module 5: Paintings II Module 6: Postmodern Identities

Judith Butler, “Introduction” from Undoing Gender (2004) Full-text not available, see Google Books for sources

Slavoj Žižek, “You May!” London Review of Books, vol. 21 (March 1999) http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n06/slavoj-zizek/you-may

Module 7: Late-term Review Module 8: Postmodern Pragmatisms

Rorty, “Postmodern Bourgeois Liberalism” and Cornel West, “Prophetic Pragmatism” from Pragmatism: A Reader. Full-text not available, see Google Books for sources

Anthony Appiah, “Cosmopolitan Contamination” from Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (2006), 101-113. Full-text not available, see Google Books for sources

Bruno Latour, Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern," Critical Inquiry, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Winter, 2004), pp. 225-248. http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/89-CRITICAL-INQUIRY-GB.pdf

Recommended Viewing (only available for viewing from the USA)

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/371416/january-18-2011/cornel-west

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/185684/september-24-2008/cornel-west

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