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ENG 523: the Animal in Literature and Philosophy Dr. Antonis Balasopoulos Tue.-Fri ENG 523: The Animal in Literature and Philosophy Dr. Antonis Balasopoulos Tue.-Fri. 13.30-15.00, Room ΧΩΔ 02 ECTS Credits: 7.5 Office Hours: Tue 18:00-19:00, Fri 17:00-18:00 Email: [email protected] I. Course Description This course rests on the hypothesis that far from being an occasional or marginal concern of the philosophical and literary tradition, the question of the animal is in fact vital to literary and philosophical history and can make this history legible and understandable in radically new ways. Moving chronologically from classical Greece to early modern Europe, and from there to the 18th and the 20th centuries, we will see how the questions of the human- animal boundary and of its precarity or permeability, of animal reason or the lack thereof, and of animal habits and propensities have been foundational for virtually every aspect of human thought: the definition of what it means to be human, the conceptualization of the origins and nature of human community and human politics, the function of religion and ritual, the questions of power, law and violence, the problem of reason and rationality, the exploration of sexuality and sexual abjection, the rise of biopolitics and political economy. II. Learning Outcomes Students are expected to develop a grasp of key theoretical questions and debates on the issues involved and a critical ability to respond to concrete positions within these; to acquire an understanding of questions of philosophical and theoretical inquiry, social history, intertextuality, style, and textual hermeneutics; and to develop the analytical and synthetic skills required in order to be able to pursue comparative research projects. III. Course Grading and Evaluation Course evaluation will be based on the following components: A. One (1) 8-10 page research paper (approx. 2,000-2,500 words). The final paper will count toward 50% of your final grade. Research topics for the paper will be handed out in advance. B. One (1) 15-20 minute oral presentation. This will count toward 20% of your final grade. Group size for presentations will be determined based on the size of the class cohort. C. One take-home reading response assignment of approximately 4 pages (approx. 1,000 words), in which you will be asked to respond to a question regarding reading material assigned and discussed in the course. This assignment will count toward 30% of your final grade. The assignment will be handed out on the seventh week of the course. You will have two weeks to hand it in to me. IV. Class policies Class attendance is mandatory. If you miss more than one session, you will be required to discuss your course progress with me. If you miss more than two, you may be advised to withdraw or be told to expect a failing grade in the course. All work for the course must be handed in within the deadlines provided. V. Required Texts Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels. Bedford/St Martin’s edition. ISBN: 978-0312066659 Kafka, Franz. The Complete Stories. Schocken. ISBN: 978-0805210552 Coetzee, J.M. Disgrace. Penguin. ISBN: 978-0140296402 Course Packet * Purchasing the books (in the editions specified) is your own responsibility; no order has been placed in any bookstore, so you may obtain them from wherever you wish, but please do so in a timely manner. Course packets are available at Unique Copy Center, 127 Larnacos Ave., Phone#: 22462932, email: [email protected]. Please obtain your copy right away! VI. Books Ordered for Short-Term Loan Agamben, Giorgio. The Open: Man and Animal. Stanford University Press, 2003. Atterton, Peter and Matthew Calarco, ed. Animal Philosophy. Continuum, 2004. Benjamin, Andrew. Of Jews and Animals. Edinburgh University Press, 2010. Brown, Laura. Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes: Humans and Other Animals in the Modern Literary Imagination. Cornell University Press, 2010. Calarco, Matthew. Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida. Columbia Univeristy Press, 2008. Coetzee, J.M. The Lives of Animals. Princeton University, 2001. Derrida, Jacques. The Beast and the Sovereign, Vol. 1. University of Chicago Press, 2009. ---. The Animal that Therefore I Am. Fordham University Press, 2008. Fudge, Erica. Brutal Reasoning: Animals, Rationality and Humanity in Early Modern England. Cornell University Press, 2006. ---.Perceiving Animals: Humans and Beasts in Early Modern English Culture. University of Illinois Press, 2002. ---. Renaissance Beasts: Of Animals, Humans and Other Wonderful Creatures. University of Illinois Press, 2004. LaCapra, Dominic. History and its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence. Cornell University Press, 2009. Santner, Eric. The Royal Remains: The King’s Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty. University of Chicago Press, 2011. Tiffin, Helen and Graham Huggan. Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment. Routledge, 2010. Wolfe, Cary. Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal. University of Minnesota Press, 2003. VII. Course Schedule and Readings Note: I expect to be absent November 10-14 for a conference in the US, so we are likely to have to reschedule two of our sessions. Week 1 Sept. 5 Course Introduction Part I. Human, Animal, Polis: Classical Foundations Plato, The Republic (pp. 53-63) Sept. 8 Catherine McKeen, “Swillsburg City Limits: The ‘City of Pigs’ (Republic 370c-372d)” (pp. 70-92) 2 Plato, The Republic (pp. 117-121, pp. 298-308) Week 2 Sept. 12 Plato, The Republic (pp. 117-121, pp. 298-308) continued Michel Foucault, “‘Omnes et Singulatim’: Toward a Critique of Political Reason” (pp. 300- 311) Sept. 15 Aristotle, Politics, Book 1 (pp. 11-22) Week 3 Sept. 19 Aristotle, Politics, Book 1 (pp. 11-22) continued Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer (pp. 1-12) Sept. 22 René Girard, Violence and the Sacred (pp. 94-126) Week 4 Part II. Sovereignty, Violence and Reason: Human and Animal in the Early Modern World Sept. 26 Pico della Mirandola, “On the Dignity of Man” (pp. 3-34) Sept. 29 Erica Fudge, “Being Human”, in Brutal Reasoning: Animals, Rationality and Humanity in Early Modern England (pp. 7-38) Week 5 Oct. 3 Michel de Montaigne, “Apology for Raymond Sebond” (pp. 330-357) Jacques Derrida, “The Animal that Therefore I am” (pp. 1-35) Oct. 6 Jacques Derrida, “The Animal that Therefore I am” (pp. 1-35) continued Niccolo Macchiaveli, The Prince (pp. 43-47) Week 6 Oct. 10 Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (pp. 106-110) Jacques Derrida, The Beast and the Sovereign (pp. 1-27) Oct. 13 Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer (pp. 71-74, 81-86, 91-103) Week 7 Oct. 17 Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer (pp. 71-74, 81-86, 91-103) continued Edward Sexby, “Killing Noe Murder” (pp. 360-389) 3 Part III. Animality, Political Economy and Biopolitics: The British Eighteenth Century Oct. 20 Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees (pp. 63-92) Ben Dew, “Spurs to Industry in Bernard Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees” (pp. 151-165) Week 8 Oct. 24 Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal” (pp. 304-311) Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (pp. 205-266) Oct. 27 Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (pp. 205-266) continued Michel Foucault, “Society Must Be Defended” (pp. 23-41, 239-253) Week 9 Oct. 31 Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (pp. 205-266) continued Claude Rawson, “Killing the Poor: An Anglo-Irish Theme?” (pp. 101-131) Part IV. The Twentieth Century: Animals Between Utopia and Catastrophe Nov. 3 Franz Kafka, “Before the Law” (pp. 3-4); “The New Advocate” (pp. 414-415) Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer (pp. 49-62) Week 10 Nov. 7 Franz Kafka, From The Trial (pp. 262-278) Giorgio Agamben, State of Exception (pp. 59-64) Nov. 10 (Class to be possibly rescheduled) Franz Kafka, “Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk” (pp. 360-376) Fredric Jameson, The Seeds of Time (pp. 122-128) Week 11 Nov. 14 (Class to be possibly rescheduled) Franz Kafka, “Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk” (pp. 360-376) continued Mladen Dolar, A Voice and Nothing More (pp. 165-188) Nov. 17 Franz Kafka, “A Crossbreed” (pp. 426-427), “A Report to an Academy” (pp. 250-259) Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, “Man and Animal”, in The Dialectic of Enlightenment (pp. 245-255) Week 12 Nov. 21 Franz Kafka, “The Metamorphosis” (pp. 89-139) Giorgio Agamben, Remnants of Auschwitz (pp. 41-48, pp. 61-70) 4 Part V. Late Modern Epigones: J.M. Coetzee Nov. 24 J.M Coetzee, Disgrace Chris Danta, “‘Like a dog…like a lamb’: Becoming Sacrificial Animal in Kafka and Coetzee” (pp. 721-737) Week 13 Nov. 28 J.M Coetzee, Disgrace continued Richard Barney, “Between Swift and Kafka: Animals and the Politics of Coetzee’s Elusive Vision” (pp. 17-23) Dec. 1 J.M. Coetzee, The Lives of Animals (pp. 15-69) Final Paper due according to university exam schedule 5.
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