ROMANTIC DEMOCRACY

--PAINES, THE RIGHTS OF MAN 1791B

--MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT, A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN (EXCERPTS) 1792
ERASMUS DARWIN ?? HUMAN LIFE AND OTHER LIFE? EVOLUTION? RIGHTS OF ANIMALS?
BECCARIA ON DEATH PENALTY?
ABOLITIONIST DISCOURSESUBALTERN/SLAVERY & DEATH PENALTY (HUGO/BECARRIA/SHELLEY)
COLERIDGE, TO A YOUNG ASS (1794)
WORDSWORTH, PRELUDE
BLAKE, AMERICA: A PROPHECY 1793
GODWIN ON NECESSITARIANISMREASON PREVAILING IN THE WORLDAN ENQUIRY
CONCERNING POLITICAL JUSTICE (1793)
(AS COUNTERPOINT TO GODWIN, BUT MAYBE GETTING OFF TARGETTHOMAS ROBERT
MALTHUS, ESSAY ON THE PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION AS ITS AFFECTS THE FUTURE IMPROVEMENT
OF SOCIETY, (1798)
--SEE ROMANTIC CIRCLES ROMANTICISM AND ECOLOGY INTRODUCTION BY JAMES MCKUSICK
-GIFT/DEBT
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PLEASURE & POETRY

OR
THEORIZING PLEASURE

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Ethics
Affect studies
Sex and Gender Studies
Psychoanalysis
Poetry
Freud, X earlier text, Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Baudelaire, The Fairies Gifts, Fleurs du mal, (sexuality) irony
Bataille,
Romantic authors (wordsworth, nutting, shelley, keats), orgasm, Bataille,
Limits between pleasure and its others (pain, death, etc.)
Sex and death
Renaissance lit.?
Shelley, Defense of Poetry For the end of social corruption is to destroy all sensibility to
pleasure; and therefore it is corruption (522).
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Decadence, hedonists,
Aristotle (poetics)
Brillat Savarin (carnal pleasuressex/ eating)
ETHICS, PLATOS PROTAGORAS (HEDONISM)
KANT (BEAUTY/SUBLIME, FLOWERS)
BURKE
CONTEMPORARY AFFECT/FEELING PERSON (NEUROSCIENCE)
REQUIRED TEXTS:
CritiqueofthePowerofJudgment,Kant
APhilosophicalInquiryintotheOriginofourIdeasoftheSublimeandBeautiful,Burke

FALL 2014
WEEK ONE

WEEK TWO

INTRODUCTION

PART I:

WEEK THREE
WEEK FOUR
WEEK FIVE
WEEK SIX
WEEK SEVEN

PART II:

WEEK EIGHT
WEEK NINE

WEEK TEN
WEEK ELEVEN
WEEK TWELVE

PART III:

WEEK THIRTEEN
WEEK FOURTEEN
WEEK FIFTEEN

PART IV:

WEEK SIXTEEN
READING WEEK
Conclusion