file:///C:/Users/Liz/Documents/Courses/Older Courses/PHIL12.576/Phil... Philosophy 576: Topics in Social and Polical Philosophy Winter 2012 Prof. Elizabeth S. Anderson Phone: 763‐2118 Angell Hall 2239 email:[email protected] Office Hours: MW 2‐3 and by appointment Course Webpage at CTools: hps://ctools.umich.edu/ Course Descripon The theme of this offering of PHIL 576 is egalitarianism, with an emphasis on foundaonal issues (on what basis can we be said to be equals?) and on the relaons of equality to freedom and bondage. In the historical poron of this course we will read important but largely neglected works, focusing on the origins and legacies of the "radical enlightenment," beginning with the Levellers and culminang in a study of the Haian revoluon, which established the first state founded on radical enlightenment principles of universal freedom and human rights. We will also consider crics of egalitarian thought. The second part of the course will turn to various contemporary egalitarians and their crics. Course Readings Most required readings are available online at CTools, which will also contain the syllabus, announcements, and other materials relevant to the course. However, some books are not available in online form and should be ordered: Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, Polical Wrings, ed. Michael Sonenscher (Hacke, 2003). Denis Diderot, Polical Wrings, ed. John Mason and Robert Wokler, eds. (Cambridge University Press, 1992). Laurent Dubois and John Garrigus, Slave Revoluon in the Caribbean, 1789‐1804: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford/St. Marn’s, 2006). John Kekes, The Illusions of Egalitarianism (Cornell University Press, 2003). In addion, although the following texts are available online, you may find it convenient to obtain hard copies of the following: Baron de Montesquieu, Persian Leers (1721). Edmund Burke, Reflecons on the Revoluon in France (Hacke, 1987). William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1883). Course Requirements As this is a seminar, all students must come prepared to discuss the readings each week. Each student will be responsible for making at least one oral presentaon introducing the readings for each week. All students must turn in 30 pages of wring that engages the readings for this course. You may write a single 30 page paper, but any combinaon of papers totaling at least 30 pages and including at least 1 paper at least 10 pages long will be accepted for credit at any me in the term. I encourage you to exercise the mul‐paper opon and to turn in at least one paper before the end of the term. 1 of 7 1/10/2014 2:40 PM file:///C:/Users/Liz/Documents/Courses/Older Courses/PHIL12.576/Phil... Philosophy 576: Topics in Social and Polical Philosophy Winter 2012 Jan. 10: Levellers An Agreement of the People (1647). The Putney Debates (3 days of debates were recorded; read the last 2 days‐‐Oct. 29 and Nov. 1, 1647. Rainsborough, Sexby, Everard, Wildman, Pey, and Cowling represent the Levellers. Cromwell and Ireton represent the Grandees.). Look here for background on the debates. John Lilburne, "The Freeman's Freedom Vindicated" (postscript) (wrien from Newgate Prison, 1646). Richard Overton, "An Arrow Shot at All Tyrants" (1646). Peon of Women, Affecters and Approvers of the Peon of Sept. 11, 1648 (1649). (Although the editor of this 1938 edion, Arthur Woodhouse, doubted that this peon was wrien by women, recent scholars suggest that its author was Katherine Chidley.) For comparison, consider Gerrard Winstanley, William Everard, et al., The True Levellers Standard Advanced (1649) (a "Digger" document, well to the "le" of the Levellers). The Heads of the Proposals Offered by the Army (1647) The Grandees' conservave posion, to contrast with the Levellers' Agreement of the People). Jan. 17: Spinoza and Spinozism Spinoza, Theological‐Polical Trease (1670), Preface, ch. 16‐20. Spinoza, A Polical Trease, ch. XI, “Of Democracy” (1677). Baron D’Holbach (Paul Henri Thiry), The System of Nature, or, Laws of the Moral and Physical World (1770), Preface and Appendix. Samuel Clarke, “A discourse concerning the being and aributes of God, the obligaons of natural religion . In answer to Mr. Hobbes, Spinoza, . and other deniers of . religion,” Boyle Lectures (1705). Recommended Addional Reading: Edwin Curley, “"Kissinger, Spinoza and Genghis Khan," in Don Garre, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza (Cambridge University Press, 1996). Steven Nadler, A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scandalous Trease and the Birth of the Secular Age (Princeton University Press, 2011). Jonathan Israel, A Revoluon of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2010). Jan. 24: Feminism 2 of 7 1/10/2014 2:40 PM file:///C:/Users/Liz/Documents/Courses/Older Courses/PHIL12.576/Phil... Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, Persian Leers (1721). Marie‐Jean‐Antoine‐Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Cizenship (1790). Declaraon of the Rights of Man and Cizen, 26 August 1789. Olympe de Gouges, Declaraon of the Rights of Woman and the Female Cizen (1791). Women’s Peon to the Naonal Assembly (1791). Mary Wollstonecra, A Vindicaon of the Rights of Women (1792), Ch. IX: "Of the Pernicious Effects which Arise from the Unnatural Disncons in Society." Recommended Addional Reading: François Poullain de la Barre, Three Cartesian Feminist Treases [“On the Equality of the Two Sexes” (1673), “On the Educaon of Ladies” (1674), “On the Excellence of Men” (1675)], ed. Marcelle Welch, tr. Vivien Bosley (University of Chicago Press: 2002). The Marchioness de Lambert, New Reflecons on Women (1727), tr. Ellen McNiven Hine (Peter Lang, 1995). Catharine Macaulay, Leers on Educaon (1790). Thomas Paine, An Occasional Leer on the Female Sex (1775). Judith Sargent Murray, “On the Equality of the Sexes,” Massachuses Magazine 2 (1790). Jan. 31: French Revoluon 1: Sieyès, June 17, 1789 (Naonal Assembly Formed) and August 4, 1789 (Abolion of Feudalism) Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, An Essay on Privileges (1788) in Polical Wrings. Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, What is the Third Estate? (1789) in Polical Wrings. Decree of the Naonal Assembly Abolishing the Feudal System, August 11, 1789. Recommended Addional Reading: William Sewell, Jr., A Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revoluon (Duke University Press, 1994). Simon Schama, Cizens: A Chronicle of the French Revoluon (Vintage, 1990). Feb. 7: French Revoluon 2: Radicals vs. Counter‐Enlightenment Richard Price, A Discourse on the Love of Our Country, delivered on Nov. 4, 1789, at the Meeng‐House in the Old Jewry, to the Society for Commemorang the Revoluon in Britain (ignore Appendix). Edmund Burke, Reflecons on the Revoluon in France (1789‐90). Catharine Macaulay, Observaons on the Reflecons of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, on the Revoluon in France, in a Leer to the Right Hon. the Earl of Stanhope (1790). Recommended Addional Reading: Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, Being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Aack on the French Revoluon (1791). Joseph Priestly, Leers to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, occasioned by his Reflecons on the Revoluon in France (1791). 3 of 7 1/10/2014 2:40 PM file:///C:/Users/Liz/Documents/Courses/Older Courses/PHIL12.576/Phil... Darrin McMahon, Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter‐Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2001). Feb. 14: Enlightenment, Imperialism, and Bondage Louis XIV, Code Noir, edict of 1685. Abbé Raynal [and Denis Diderot], Philosophical and Polical History of the Selements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies (1770), selecon. Denis Diderot, Philosophical and Polical History of the Selements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies, addional selecons in Diderot: Polical Wrings (Cambridge University Press, 1992). Viefville des Essars, On the Emancipaon of the Negroes (1790). Louis Sala‐Molins, Dark Side of the Light: Slavery and the French Enlightenment, tr. John Conteh‐Morgan (University of Minnesota Press, 2006), ch. 1. Recommended Addional Reading: Sankar Muthu, Enlightenment Against Empire (Princeton University Press, 2003). Feb. 21: The Haian Revoluon (1) Laurent Dubois and John Garrigus, Slave Revoluon in the Caribbean, 1789‐1804: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford/St. Marn’s, 2006). Recommended Addional Reading: Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World (Duke University Press, 2004). C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins (Vintage, 1963 [1938]). Anna Julia Cooper, Slavery and the French and Haian Revoluonists, ed. and tr. Frances Richardson Keller (Rowman & Lilefield, 2006 [1925]). Mar. 6: The Haian Revoluon (2) Laurent Dubois, “An Enslaved Enlightenment: Rethinking the Intellectual History of the French Enlightenment,” Social History 31 (2006). Susan Buck‐Morss, “Hegel and Hai,” Crical Inquiry 26 (2000): 821‐865. Georg W. F. Hegel, "Lordship and Bondage," from The Phenomenology of Mind (1807). Georg W. F. Hegel, The Philosophy of Right, § 57 (1821) (the link is to a longer secon, but § 57 is the crical one for our purposes). Recommended Addional Reading: Nick Nesbi, Universal Emancipaon: The Haian Revoluon and the Radical Enlightenment (University of Virginia Press, 2008). 4 of 7 1/10/2014 2:40 PM file:///C:/Users/Liz/Documents/Courses/Older Courses/PHIL12.576/Phil... Mar. 13: Crique of Egalitarianism (1): Sumner William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1883). Thomas Paine, Agrarian Jusce (1797). Recommended Addional Readings: Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Populaon, (6th ed. 1826) vol. 2: Bk. III, ch. 5‐6, Bk. IV, ch. 1‐2, 8. Nassau Senior, Poor Law Commissioners' Report of 1834. Herbert Spencer, "The Proper Sphere of Government," in The Man versus the State, with Six Essays on Government, Society, and Freedom (1884), leers 2‐4. Herbert Spencer, "From Freedom to Bondage," in Thomas Mackay, ed., A Plea for Liberty: An Argument Against Socialism and Socialisc Legislaon (1891) (predicng that social democracy would inevitably degenerate into totalitarianism).