Interest and Pleasure: Toward a Theory of Political Audiences
CHUM 356
Spring 2014
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| Crosslisting:
HIST 356 |
| Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory |
What does it mean for a nonpolitician to be "interested" in political life? What is the nature of the satisfaction citizens get by keeping themselves informed about current events? Is the pleasure derived from following the news similar to or different from that of enjoying political fictions, such as Shakespeare's Julius Caesar or NBC's The West Wing? What do we citizens DO with the information we acquire through different media? Is our "interest" properly political (that is, practical), or is it aesthetic? Is it both, is it a mixture of the two, or is it some other, radically different, still unidentified, form of interest? |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA CHUM |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Major Requirement for: None |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Readings MAY include the following books (this is not a definitive list):
Theodor Adorno, AESTHETIC THEORY (Minnesota) ISBN 9780816618002
Jeffrey C. Alexander, THE CIVIL SPHERE (Oxford) ISBN 9780195369304
Walter Benjamin, THE ORIGIN OF GERMAN TRAGIC DRAMA (Verso) ISBN 9781844673483
Walter Benjamin, THE WORK OF ART IN THE AGE OF ITS TECHNOLOGICAL REPRODUCIBILITY, AND OTHER WRITINGS ON MEDIA (Harvard) ISBN 9780674024458
Bertolt Brecht, BRECHT ON THEATRE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN AESTHETIC (Hill and Wang) ISBN 9780809005420
Richard Butsch, THE CITIZEN AUDIENCE: CROWDS, PUBLICS, AND INDIVIDUALS (Routledge) ISBN 9780415977906
Guy Debord, THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE (Zone) ISBN 9780942299793
Boris Groys, THE TOTAL ART OF STALINISM: AVANT-GARDE, AESTHETIC DICTATORSHIP, AND BEYOND (Princeton) ISBN 9781844677078
Jürgen Habermas, THE STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE (MIT) ISBN 9780262581080
Axel Honneth, THE STRUGGLE FOR RECOGNITION: THE MORAL GRAMMAR OF SOCIAL CONFLICTS (Polity) ISBN 9780262581479
José Antonio Maravall, CULTURE OF THE BAROQUE (Minnesota) ISBN 9780816614455
Richard Schechner, PERFORMANCE THEORY (Routledge) ISBN 9780415314558
John B. Thompson, POLITICAL SCANDAL: POWER AND VISIBILITY IN THE MEDIA AGE (Polity) ISBN 9780745625508
Michael Warner, PUBLICS AND COUNTERPUBLICS (Zone) ISBN 9781890951290
And articles by Alessandro Pizzorno, Pierre Bourdieu, Jean Leca, and others.
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| Instructor(s): Castro-Ibaseta,Javier Times: ..T.... 07:00PM-09:50PM; Location: WYL113; |
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