Reading Schedule

January 6 Introduction: What is Modernity?

January 13 Karl Marx, Selections from Capital.

Chapter 1: Commodities.  Available online at
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm#S1
Read the following three sections:
•    Section 1 – The Two Factors of a Commodity: Use-Value and Value
•    Section 2 – The Twofold Character of the Labour Embodied in Commodities
•    Section 4 – The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof

January 20 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (first and last sections)

January 27 Sigmund Freud, The Unconscious (read the entire book but focus on the essay “The Unconscious”)

February 3 William Carlos Williams, “Spring and All,” pages 88 -151 in Imaginations and TS Eliot, “The Wasteland,” (on Reserve), Vorticism manifestos (copies handed out in class)

February 10 Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit.

February 24 Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf, 1927 (order online today or pick up a copy at a used bookstore; it’s also on reserve in the library)

March 3 Marcel Proust, selections from À la recherche du temps perdu (trans. In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past) selections TBD.

March 10 A Day of Surrealism!  Read Surrealist manifestos (photocopy on reserve); Un Chien Andalou (Dali and Bunuel film) to be screened in class

March 17 J. M. Coetzee, Lives of Animals, 1999.  (order online, also on reserve in the library)

March 24 H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness, and Other Novels (selection TBD; order online, also on reserve in the library)

March 31 Michel Foucault, selections from Discipline and Punish (photocopies on reserve in the library) and Jorge Luis Borghes, “The Library of Babel,” and “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote,” (available in most Borghes collections, also on reserve in the library)