Course Name
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Turkish |
Seçili konular: Bilim, Teknoloji ve Tpolum
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| English |
Selec.Topics in Sci.,Tec.&Soc. |
Course Code
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BTT 520E |
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Lecture
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Recitation
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Laboratory
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| Semester |
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3 |
3 |
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| Course Language |
English |
| Course Coordinator |
Barry Davıd Stocker
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| Course Objectives |
The course aims to introduce students to the main topics in social thought about the impact of science and technology in the human world. It will develop the analytical, critical and evaluative capacities of students through class participation, class presentations, and term papers.
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| Course Description |
The course concentrates on social and political thought as applied to the impact of science and technology on society. Main topics include: the division of labour and technological development, the role of technology in defining the economic and political model of a society, modern production in relation to alienation and commodification, bureaucratisation of power and the decline of personal authority, the loss of tradition art and growth of mass media, mass culture and needs mediated by advertising, the technological conquest of sea and space as factors in state power, labour and work as forms of human activity dependent on technology, the development of medicine through changes in political and institutional power, theoretical science and human experience, total administration and loss of individual needs, the impact of mass media and means-end rationality on the public sphere.
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| Course Outcomes |
Capacity to speak and write on the major issues in social thought about the impact of science and technology, at a high level of analysis, evaluation and criticism. Knowledge of core texts on the impact of science and technology on the social world |
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| Required Facilities |
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| Other |
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| Textbook |
Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Volume I. Edited by R.H. Campbell, A.S. Skinner and W.B. Todd. Indianapolis IN: Liberty Fund, 1981. Reprinted from 1976 edition, Oxford University Press. [first published 1776]
Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts (1844) in Karl Marx: Early Writings, translated by Rodney Livingstone and Gregor Benton. London: Penguin Books, 1992 [reprinted from Pelican Books, 1975].
Karl Marx [with Friedrich Engels] The Communist Manifesto, translated by Samuel Moore, edited by Jeffrey C. Isaac. New Haven CT: Yale University Press. [first published 1848]
Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume I, translated by Ben Fowkes. London: Penguin Books, 1976. [first published 1867]
Max Weber, Economy and Society, Volume II, edited by Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich. Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 1978 [reprinted from Bedminster Press, 1968]. [first published 1922]
Walter Benjamin, ‘The Work of Art in the Era of its Technological Reproducibility’ [written 1939], translated by Harry Zohn and Edmund Jephcott, in Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume IV, edited by Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.
Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments, edited by Gunzelin Schmid Noerr, translated by Edmund Jephcott. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press. [first published 1944]
Carl Schmitt, Land and Sea, translated by Simona Draghici. Washington DC: Plutarch Press, 1997 [first published 1954]
Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press [2nd edition] 1998. [first published 1958]
Michel Foucault, The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception, translated by A.M. Sheridan. London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis 2003 [reprinted from Tavistock Publications, 1976]. [First published 1963].
Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the ideology of advanced industrial society. Abingdon: Routledge, 2002. [first published 1964]
Jürgen Habermas, Towards a Rational Society: Student Protest, Science, and Politics, translated by Jeremy J. Shapiro. Boston MA: Beacon Press, 1970. [first published 1968] |
| Other References |
Christopher J. Berry, Adam Smith: A Very Short Introduction, 2018
Knud Haakonssen (editor), The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith (2006)
David McLellan, The Thought of Karl Marx: An Introduction (1980
Terrell Carver (editor), The Cambridge Companion to Marx (1991)
Gianfranco Poggi, Weber: A Short Introduction (2006)
Stephen Turner (editor), The Cambridge Companion to Weber (2000)
David S. Ferris, The Cambridge Introduction to Walter Benjamin (2008)
David S. Ferris (editor), The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin (2004)
Gerhard Schweppenhäuser, Theodor W. Adorno: An Introduction (2005)
Tom Huhn (editor), The Cambridge Companion to Adorno (2004)
John P. McCormick, Carl Schmitt’s Critique of Liberalism: Against Politics as Technology (1997)
Jens Meierhenrich and Oliver Simons (editors), The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt (2016)
John McGowan, Hannah Arendt: An Introduction (1998)
Dana Villa (editor), The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt (2001)
Gary Gutting, Foucault: A Very Short Introduction (2005)
Gary Gutting (editor) The Cambridge Companion to Foucault (2006)
Alasdair MacIntyre, Herbert Marcuse: An Exposition and a Polemic (1970)
John Abromeit and W. Mark Cobb (editors), Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Reader (2004)
James Gordon Finlayson, Habermas: A Very Short Introduction (2005)
Stephen K. White (editor) The Cambridge Companion to Habermas (1995) |
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