PHIL 421: Marxism
Catalog Description
Prepares students for advanced work on Marx and Marxist philosophy.
PHIL 421: Marxism
This course will be divided into three (unequal) parts:
Part One will involve a close reading of some of Marx's primary texts:
The Communist Manifesto
The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 (selections from)
The German Ideology (selections from)
"Preface to a Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy"
"Free Human Production" (from the Excerpt Notes of 1844)
"Theses on Feuerbach"
Capital (vol 1) (most)
Part Two will focus on:
Jürgen Habermas, Legitimation Crisis
David Schweickart's After Capitalism.
Part Three will consist of student presentations of various classical and contemporary books on Marx and Marxism. [Each students will join a "reading groups" that will meet regularly throughout the semester to discuss a particular book. Each group will make a presentation.
Catalog Description
Prepares students for advanced work on Marx and Marxist philosophy.
PHIL 421: Marxism
This course will be divided into three (unequal) parts:
Part One will involve a close reading of some of Marx's primary texts:
The Communist Manifesto
The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 (selections from)
The German Ideology (selections from)
"Preface to a Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy"
"Free Human Production" (from the Excerpt Notes of 1844)
"Theses on Feuerbach"
Capital (vol 1) (most)
Part Two will focus on:
Jürgen Habermas, Legitimation Crisis
David Schweickart's After Capitalism.
Part Three will consist of student presentations of various classical and contemporary books on Marx and Marxism. [Each students will join a "reading groups" that will meet regularly throughout the semester to discuss a particular book. Each group will make a presentation.