Western marxism Spring, 2014 Instructor Zhang Shuangli Classroom Location HGX 207 Days& Hours: 13: 30-15: 10, Thursday, Office: Room2605 West Main Build ing. GuanghuaBuild ing Office Phone: 021-55665105 Mobile phone: 13916960901 Office Hours: 14: 00-16: 00, Monday Email shuangli@fudan.edu.cn Textbooks: 1, Marxism After Marx, David Mclellan, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 2, Main Currents of Marxism, Leszek Kolakowski, w.W. Norton Company 2008; Recommended readings 1, History and Class Consciousness, Georg Lukacs, the MIT Press, 1971 2, Tailism and the Dialectic, Georg Lukacs, Verso, 2000, p151-182 3, Reification: A New Look at an Old Idea, Axel Honneth, Oxford University Press. 2007 4, Dialectic of Enlightenment, Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adornor, Stanford U Pre,2002 5, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, Jurgen Habermas, The MIT Press, 1995,p106-13 6, The Critique of Power: Reflective Stages in a Critical Social Theory, Axel Honneth. the MiT Press. 1991 Course objectives: This course is designed to lead the students into the area of"western Marxism It firstly help the students to feral understand development of the different currents of western Marxism, that is, to understand the context of the origin of western Marxism, the problem-consciousness of the different currents and their different ways to investigate the problems. On the basis of and in add ition to this, it will also help the students to read some selected first-hand western Marxist texts, such as chapters from History and Class Consciousness and Dialectic of Enlightenment. Through the careful read ing of the texts. the students would be encouraged to think more about the western marxists critique of modernity, their reinterpretation of the relationship between German idealism and Marx's philosophy and their arguments about the vital relevance of Marx's philosophy to the contemporary world1 Western Marxism Spring, 2014 Instructor: Zhang Shuangli Classroom Location: HGX 207 Days & Hours: 13:30-15:10, Thursday, Office: Room2605, West Main Building, GuanghuaBuilding Office Phone: 021-55665105 Mobile Phone: 13916960901 Office Hours: 14:00-16:00, Monday Email: shuangli@fudan.edu.cn Textbooks: 1, Marxism After Marx, David Mclellan, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 2, Main Currents of Marxism, Leszek Kolakowski, W.W. Norton & Company, 2008; Recommended Readings: 1, History and Class Consciousness, Georg Lukacs, the MIT Press, 1971 2, Tailism and the Dialectic, Georg Lukacs, Verso, 2000, p151-182. 3, Reification: A New Look at an Old Idea, Axel Honneth, Oxford University Press, 2007 4, Dialectic of Enlightenment, Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adornor, Stanford University Press, 2002 5, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, Jurgen Habermas, The MIT Press, 1995, p106-131. 6, The Critique of Power: Reflective Stages in a Critical Social Theory, Axel Honneth, the MIT Press, 1991 Course Objectives: This course is designed to lead the students into the area of “western Marxism”. It firstly aims to help the students to have a general understanding of the development of the different currents of western Marxism, that is, to understand the context of the origin of western Marxism, the problem-consciousness of the different currents and their different ways to investigate the problems. On the basis of and in addition to this, it will also help the students to read some selected first-hand western Marxist texts, such as chapters from History and Class Consciousness and Dialectic of Enlightenment. Through the careful reading of the texts, the students would be encouraged to think more about the western Marxists’ critique of modernity, their reinterpretation of the relationship between German idealism and Marx’s philosophy and their arguments about the vital relevance of Marx’s philosophy to the contemporary world