Contemporary Marxist Theory

Course info:

Sociology 615

Winter 2002

Wed 6:00-8:30 p.m.

714 PLC Hall

Instructor info:

Professor Val Burris

730 PLC / 346-5001

Office hours: Tuesday 2-4 p.m.

vburris@oregon.uoregon.edu

Course links:

• Syllabus

• Illuminations: The Critical Theory Website (Doug Kellner)

• Class, State and Ideology Website (Erik Wright)

• Week 2 discussion questions

• Week 3 discussion questions

• Week 4 discussion questions

• Week 5 discussion questions

• Week 6 discussion questions

• Week 7 discussion questions

• Week 8 (revised) The Marx-Freud Synthesis

• Notes on Sigmund Freud

• Week 9 discussion questions

• Week 10 discussion questions

• Notes on Postmodernism

• How to Speak and Write Postmodern

• Postmodernism Generator

• Final Essay Assignment

• C. Wright Mills, The Marxists, chapter 6