HIST 608
Winter 2004
CRN 28281

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WEEK 7
WEEK 8
WEEK 9
WEEK 10

 

week 1

de Tocqueville on the Power of Individualism and the Social Ties That Hold Individuals Together

Check out the website for Fragments #2, “Power”

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Volume 1

  • Author’s Introduction

  • Part 1, chapters 2-4; chapter 5, pp. 61-70, 86-99

  • Part 2, chapter 4; chapter 5, pp. 196-202, 218-230; chapter 6; chapter 10, pp. 316-332, 340-63.

Volume 2

  • Author’s Preface

  • Part 1, chapters 1-2

  • Part 2, chapters. 1-8; 13; 20

  • Part 3, chapters 1; 5; 8-12; 17; 21

  • Part 4, entire

week 2

Marx on the Power of Class

Robert C. Tucker, ed., The Marx-Engels Reader

  • Marx on the History of His Opinions (3-6)

  • Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844: Preface, Estranged Labor, Private Property and Communism (66-93)

  • Wage Labor and Capital (203-217)

  • Capital, Volume One: Part I. Commodities and Money; Part II. The Transformation of Money into Capital; The Buying and Selling of Labor-Power; The So-Called Primitive Accumulation (302-343, 431-438)

  • Manifesto of the Communist Party: 1: Bourgeois and Proletarians; II. Proletarians and Communists (473-491)

week 3

Weber on The Power of Religious Ideas

Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

week 4

Freud on the Power of Instinct and Repression

Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

Sigmund Freud, “Resistance and Repression” and “The Sexual Life of Human Beings,” in Introductory Lectures in Psycho-Analysis (London: The Hogarth Press, 1963), 286-319.

Sigmund Freud, “Why War?,” in Collected Papers, ed. James Strachey (New York: Basic Books, 1959), 273-287.

week 5

de Beauvoir on the Power of Patriarchy

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

  • Introduction

  • Chapter 2

  • Chapter 3

  • Chapter 8

  • Chapter 11

  • Chapter 12 (267-295)

  • Chapter 15

  • Chapter 16 (425-427; 450-456)

  • Chapter 17(484-496; 521-527)

  • Chapter 21

  • Chapter 25

  • Conclusion

week 6

Foucault on Power/Knowledge

Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish

week 7

Scott on Resisting Power

James C. Scott, Domination and the Arts of Resistance

week 8

The Power of the Weak: History from, Way, Way Below

Robin D. Kelley, Race Rebels

week 9

The Power of Professional Authority in the Modern Human Sciences

Jennifer Terry, An American Obsession

week 10

Has Power Been Overplayed? Reconsidering Chance

Jackson Lears, Something for Nothing