Course Name
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Turkish |
Fenomenoloji ve Politika
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| English |
Phenomenology and Politics |
Course Code
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STD 615E |
Credit |
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 |
Students will learn about how phenomenological philosophy is used in important works of political thought. They will study major texts, developing analytical, evaluative and critical skills through class discussion, class presentations, and term papers.
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| Course Description |
The course looks at how a philosophical approach known as Phenomenology has entered into political thought. The course concentrates on texts of political thought themselves rather than philosophical phenomenology. The text most concerned with the philosophy of phenomenology is the first text in the course, ‘Letter on Humanism’ by the German philosopher Martin Heidegger. This gives some understanding of philosophical phenomenology, and can be a starting point for further reading on the topic. It reacts to Jean-Paul Sartre (French philosopher) , whose most important work of phenomenology is Being and Nothingness (1943). You can also go back to the book that established Heidegger as a major philosopher, Being and Time (1927) or to Heidegger’s teacher Edmund Husserl (Austrian philosopher), who established phenomenology as a major philosophical approach. His most extensive expositions of his philosophy can be found in Logical Investigations (1901) and Ideas (1913). Cartesian Meditations (1929) is also significant. Moving forward from Sartre, Phenomenology of Perception (1945) by Maurice Merleau-Ponty (French philosopher) is in part an answer to Being and Nothingness and is itself a major philosophical work. Phenomenology in general focuses on forms and structures of consciousness. This can be a very formal approach to defining forms and structures, as can be found in Husserl. It can be very oriented to psychology, perception and cognition, as can be found in Merleau-Ponty. It can be more social, historical, cultural and political which is the kind of text we are examining, where it is most relevant to political thought.
We start with Heidegger’s ‘Letter on Humanism’ which questions the idea of philosophical humanism. Heidegger argues that individual relationship with language and history undermines the idea of a humanity which exist as a substantial thing exşsting separately from history and language, providing a foundation for ethical and political language. As Heidegger points out the idea of a human and the rights of an individual change over, in politics, and in other spheres. We then move onto the German political and legal thinker Carl Schmitt, who understood law and politics as basic human enterprises emerging from the conditions of human community and history, living on the earth, developing with history. We will see how he understands the changing nature of ideas of law, international law, national territory, Europe and the world. After Schmitt, we will examine the work of Heidegger’s student, the German-American political theorist Hannah Arendt. We see how she makes an argument about the emergence of politics in the social world antiquity, followed by subsequent changes in society and historical experience which condition politics. We finish with the work of the French philosopher and historian of systems of thought (the professorial title he chose), Michel Foucault. We will examine his account of the emergence of the medical clinic in the late eighteenth century as a change from previous practices and ideas of medicine, formed by political change, social development, as institutional power as well as intellectual development, all rooted in the nature of social experience and knowledge.
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| Course Outcomes |
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| Pre-requisite(s) |
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| Required Facilities |
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| Other |
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| Textbook |
Martin Heidegger ‘Letter on Humanism’ [first published1947] in Martin Heidegger: Basic Writings, edited and translated by David Farrell Krell. New York NY: HarperCollins, 1993.
Carl Schmitt Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of the Jus Publicum Europaeum [first published 1950]. Trans. G.L. Ulmen. New NY: Telos Publishing, 2006
Hannah Arendt Human Condition [first published 1958] Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Michel Foucault Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception [first published 1963], translated by A.M. Sheridan. Abingdon: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2003. |
| Other References |
Jean-Paul Sartre, Anti-Semite and Jew (1945)
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949)
Frantz Fanon, Black Skin White Masks (1952)
Jan Patocka, Plato and Europe (1974)
Jean-Luc Nancy, The Experience of Freedom (1988)
Jacques Derrida, Politics of Friendship (1994)
Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (1995)
Other relevant texts by the course authors
Heidegger
The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays (edited by William Lovitt, 1977)
Martin Heidegger: Philosophical and Political Writings (edited Manfred Stassen, 2010)
Schmitt
The Concept of the Political
Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
Legality and Legitimacy
Hamlet or Hecuba: The Intrusion of Time into the Play
Theory of the Partisan
Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy
The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes
Dictatorship
Arendt
On Revolution
The Life of the Mind
Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy
The Origins of Totalitarianism
On Violence
Eichmann in Jerusalem
The Promise of Politics
Foucault
History of Madness
History of Sexuality (4 volumes)
Discipline and Punish
The Essential Works of Michel Foucault (3 volumes)
Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling
Fearless Speech
Penal Theories and Institutions
The Punitive Society
Security, Territory, Population
“Society Must be Defended”
The Birth of Biopolitics
The Government of the Living
The Government of Self and Others
Texts on the course authors
Heidegger
Michael Inwood, Heidegger: A Very Short Introduction (1997)
Charles B. Guignon (editor), Cambridge Companion to Heidegger (1993)
Hubert L. Dreyfuss and Mark Wrathall (editors), Blackwell Companion to Heidegger (2005)
Michael Inwood, A Heidegger Dictionary (1999)
Daneil O. Dahlstrom, The Heidegger Dictionary (2013)
James F. Ward, Heidegger’s Political Thinking (1995)
Miguel de Beistegui, Heidegger & The Political. Dystopias. (1998)
Schmitt
Jens Meierheinrich and Oliver Simons, The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt (2016)
John P. McCormick, Carl Schmitt’s Critique of Liberalism: Against Politics as Technology (1997)
Chantal Mouffe (editor), The Challenge of Carl Schmitt (1999)
Jan-Werner Müller, A Dangerous Mind: Carl Schmitt in Post-War European Thought (2003)
Kim Shapiro, Carl Schmitt and the Intensification of Politics (2008)
Gabriella Slomp, Carl Schmitt and the Politics of Hostility, Violence and Terror (2009)
William Hooker, Carl Schmitt’s International Thought (2009)
Legg, Stephen (editor) Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos (2011)
Montserrat Herrero, The Political Discourse of Carl Schmitt: A Mystic of Order (2015)
Claudio Minca and Rory Rowan, On Schmitt and Space (2016)
Josh Booth and Patrick Baert, The Dark Side of Podemos: Carl Schmitt and Contemporary Progressive Populism (2018)
Arendt
Baehr, Peter and Philip Walsh (eds.) (2017) The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt. London: Anthem Press.
Bernstein, Richard J. (2018) Why Read Hannah Arendt Now. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Fry, Karin A. (2009) Arendt: A Guide for the Perplexed. London: Continuum.
Hayden, Patrick (ed.) Hannah Arendt: Key Concepts. Abingdon: Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
McGowan, John (1998) Hannah Arendt: An Introduction. Minneapolis MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Swift, Simon (2009) Hannah Arendt. Abingdon: Routledge/Taylor& Francis
Villa, Dana (ed.) (2001) The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Arendt and Schmitt
Andreas Kalyvas, Democracy and the Politics of the Extraordinary: Max Weber, Carl Schmitt and Hannah Arendt (2008)
Arendt and Heidegger
Dana Villa, Arendt and Heidegger: The Fate of the Political (1996)
Foucault
Gary Gutting, Foucault: A Very Short Introduction (2005)
Gary Gutting (editor), The Cambridge Companion to Foucault (2003)
Gary Gutting, Michel Foucault’s Archaeology of Scientific Reason (1989)
Christopher Falzon, Timothy O’Leary and Jana Sawicki, Blackwell Companion to Foucault (2013)
Colin Jones and Roy Porter (editors) Reassessing Foucault: Power, Medicine and the Body (1994)
Vanessa Lem and Miguel Vatter (editors) The Government of Life: Foucault, Biopolitics, and Neoliberalism (2014)
Barry Smart, Michel Foucault [Key Sociologists series] (2002)
Mike Kelly (editor) Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate (1994)
Todd May, Between Genealogy and Epistemology: Psychology, Politics, and Knowledge in the Thought of Michel Foucault (1993)
Thomas Lemke, Foucault, Governmentality and Critique (2012)
Ben Golder, Foucault and the Politics of Rights (2015)
Andrea Rossi, The Labour of Subjectivity: Foucault on Politics, Economy, Critique (2016)
Heidegger and Foucault
Alan Milchman and Alan Rosenberg (editors) Foucault and Heidegger: Critical Encounters (2003)
Robert Nichols (editor) A World of Freedom: Heidegger, Foucault, and the Politics of Historical ontology (2014)
Stuart Elden, Mapping the Present: Heidegger, Foucault and the Project of a Spatial History (2001) |
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