MODULE OUTLINE

Modern Liberal ArtsUniversity of WinchesterSemester 2 2015-16

LA 2002 Freedom is to Learn

Monday 3pm MC107Tubbs

Module Learning Outcomes

Show engagement with primary sourcesShow a knowledge of theoretical perspectives and/or worksShow an understanding of abstract concepts and ideas within theoretical perspectives Show an ability to work with theorists and their concepts in various forms of assessment as appropriate Show evidence of engagement with texts and ideas concerned with the concept of the dialectic

Weekly sessions

Week 1 Annunciation

Reading: Habermas, J. (1990) The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, Cambridge, Polity, pp. 83-7Halliwell, M. and Mousley, A. (2003) Critical Humanisms, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 122-8Deleuze, G. (1983) Nietzsche and Philosophy, London, Athlone, pp. 1-3, 6-10.

Week 2 Twilight of three semesters

Reading: Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, in (1982) The Portable Nietzsche, trans Kaufmann, New York, Viking Penguin.

Week 3 cows, memory and morals

Reading: Nietzsche, (1983) ‘On the uses and disadvantages of history for life’ in Untimely Meditations, trans. R.J. Hollingdale, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 60-67.Nietzsche, F. (1968) Genealogy of Morals, New York: The Modern Library, pp. 493-9, 520-1, and 531-2.

Week 4 he must come one day

Reading: Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, in The Portable Nietzsche, pp. 121-39, 225-8, 249-53, 267-71, 342-3.

Wider reading: Tolstoy, L. (2009) My Religion, What I Believe, Guildford, White Crow Books, chapter 1.Deleuze, G. (1983) Nietzsche and Philosophy, London, AthloneAllison, D.B. (1985) The New Nietzsche, Cambridge Massachusetts, The MIT Press.Rosen, S. (1995) The Mask of Enlightenment, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.Ansell-Pearson, K. (1994) An Introduction to Nietzsche as Political Thinker, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.Agamben, G. (1999) The Man Without Conent, Stanford, Stanford University Press, pp. 85-93.Tubbs, N. (1997) Contradiction of Enlightenment, Aldershot, Ashgate. chapter 8.Tubbs, N (2003) ‘The Return of the Teacher’, Educational Philosophy and Theory, 35: 1.Tubbs, N. (2005) Philosophy of the Teacher, Oxford, Blackwell, chapter 7.Tubbs, N. (2004) Philosophy’s Higher Education, Dordrecht, Kluwer, chapter 5.

Weeks 5 & 6 Post-humanism

Introduction Braidotti, R. (2013) The Posthuman, pp. 143-4, 3, 15, 26, 37-8, 52, 54, 58-60, 65-7, 89-91.

Readings: Descartes, R. (1985) Discourse on Method in The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, vol 1, (Cottingham et al.), Discourse 4, p. 127. Descartes, R. (1984) Meditations on First Philosophy, in The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, vol 2, (Cottingham et al.), Sixth Meditation, p. 54Critchley, S. (1999) Ethics, Politics, Subjectivity, London, Verso, pp. 51-3.Hyppolite, J. (1974/1989) Genesis and Structure in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, Evanston, Northwestern University Press, p. 166.Heidegger, M. (1992) Being and Time, Oxford, Blackwell, pp. 27-8.Heidegger, M. (1996) ‘Letter on Humanism’ in Basic Writings, ed. D.F. Krell, London, Routledge, pp. 220, 223-6.Derrida, J. (1982) Margins of Philosophy, New York, Harvester Wheatsheaf, pp. 11 & 16.Derrida, J. (1990) Glas, University of Nebraska Press, pp. 95, 235-6.Foucault, M. (1970) The Order of Things, London, Routledge, p. xxiii.Deleuze, G. (2001) difference and repetition, pp. xix-xxi, 262-3.Levinas, E, (1987) Collected Philosophical Papers, Pittsburgh, Duquesne University Press, 48.Nietzsche, F. (1982) ‘Twilight of the Idols’ in The Portable Nietzsche, ed. W. Kaufmann, New York, Penguin, p. 494.Barad, K. (2007) Meeting the Universe Halfway, Durham, Duke University Press, pp. 45-6, 134, 136, 156-7, 338-42, 352, 378-81Butler, J. (2006) Gender Trouble, London, Routledge, pp. 23 & 34.Hekman, S. (2014) The Feminine Subject, Cambridge, Polity, pp. 148-151, 159-162.Fanon, F. (2001) The Wretched of the Earth, London, Penguin, p. 251.Zizek, S. (2008) The Ticklish Subject, London, Verso, pp. xxiii-xxiv.Zizek, S. (2012) Less Than Nothing, London, Verso, 290.

Philosophers and Race

Readings: Bernosconi ‘Kant as an unfamiliar source of racism,’ in Ward and Lott (2002), pp. 145-151.

Kant, (2012) Anthropology, History and Education, Introduction pp. 6-10, 152-3.Hegel, Philosophy of Mind, pp. 41-5.Bernasconi, R. and Lott, T. (eds.) (2000) The Idea of Race, Indianapolis, Hackett, pp. 202-12.Verhagen, C. (1997) ‘”The New World and the Dreams to Which it May Give Rise”: an African and American Response to Hegel’s Challenge,’ Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 27, No. 4, (March), pp. 456-493.

Wider reading; Kain, Hegel and the Other, pp. 246-59.Kant, (2012) ‘Observations of the feeling of the beautiful and the sublime,’ 4th Part.Kant, (2012) Anthropology, History and Education, pp. 152-5, 159, 199-200.Kant, (2012) ‘Of the different races of human beings,’ (esp. 84-5, 95).Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, 144-5, 155-61, 176-8, 182-6, 190-6.Hegel, Early Theological Writings, 68-9.Bernasconi and Lott, The Idea of RaceWard and Lott, Philosophers on Race.Bürger, The Thinking of the Master, chapter 2.Park, P.K.J. (2013) Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy.Bernasconi, R. (2000) ‘With What Must the Philosophy of World History Begin? On the Racial Basis of Hegel's Eurocentrism?’ Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Sep. Vol. 22 Issue 2, p171.Zizek, S. (1993) Tarrying With the Negative, chapter 6.Camara, (2005), ‘The Falsity Of Hegel's Theses On Africa’, .

Fanon and Said: masters and slaves

Readings: Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, Preface, 32-7, 76-9, 84.Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, Intro 1-7, 168-9Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, 28-9, 33, 36, 48, 76-8, 84, conclusion. Spivak, Can the Subaltern Speak?Maggio, Can the Subaltern be Heard? 419-21, 431-2.Bhabha, The Location of Culture, 59-63, 70, 92-3, 338-42.Said, Culture and Imperialism, xiii-xv, xxii-xxiii, xxviii-xxx, 8-11, 234-5, 388-90, 400-1.Hallward, Absolutely Postcolonial, 51-3.

Wider reading: Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, both Forwards.

Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, PrefaceZizek, The Ticklish Subject, pp. 258-9.C.L.R. James Archive http://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/index.htmSartre, Existentialism and HumanismBernasconi, R. (2004) ‘Identity and Agency in Frantz Fanon’ Sartre Studies International. 2004, Vol. 10 Issue 2, p106-109.Bernasconi, R. (2010) ‘Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth as the Fulfillment of Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason’ Sartre Studies International. 2010, Vol. 16 Issue 2, p36-47.Maggio, Can the Subaltern be Heard? 432-39Asgharzadeh, The Return of the SubalternWilliams and Chrisman, Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial TheoryDavidson, Let Freedom ComeDawkins, The God Delusion, pp. 298-308.Achebe, "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' http://kirbyk.net/hod/image.of.africa.htmlHulme, Colonial EncountersShakespeare, The TempestNgugi, Decolonising the Mind

Novels: Rushdie, Midnight’s ChildrenNaipaul, A Bend in the RiverConrad, Nostromo, & Heart of DarknessAchebe, Things Fall ApartNgugi, The River BetweenCoetzee, Waiting for the BarbariansSoyinka, The Lion and the JewelWinkler, Going Home to TeachChamoiseau, School Days

Slave ‘stories’McLaurin, M.A. (1991) Celia, a Slave, New York, Avon Books.Douglass, F. (2009) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Oxford, Oxford University Press.Northup, S, (2014) 12 Years a Slave, London, HarperCollins.Jacobs, H. (2001) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, New York, Dover. Equiano, O. (1789/2005) The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself, London.

Black slaverydu Bois, The Souls of Black Folks, chapter 1, &p. 356.du Bois, The Conservation of the Races, pp. 7-15.http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31254du Bois, The Education of Black People, 26-31, 106-8, 128, 179, 187.

Fanon, black skin white mask, ‘The Fact of Blackness’Diop, Civilization of Barbarism, 3, 16, 23, 362-6, 375-6.Tutu, No Future Without Forgiveness, 34-6, 40, 154-5, 212-19.Ansbro, Martin Luther King, The Making of a Mind, pp. 121-8, 298, 214-15.

Wider readingdu Bois The Souls of Black Folks, chapter 11du Bois, ‘du Bois Speaks to Africa,’ http://www.nathanielturner.com/duboisspeakstoafrica1958.htmdu Bois, The Education of Black PeopleTutu, No Future Without ForgivenessDiop, C.A, (1991) Civilization or Barbarism, chapter 17.Krog, Country of my Skull,ML King Jnr, (1956) ‘Facing the Challenge of a new age’ http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/primarydocuments/Vol3/3-Dec-1956_FacingtheChallenge.pdf

ML King Jnr, ‘Introduction’ to The Papers of ML King Jnr, vol. II Rediscovering Precious Values, Berkley, University of California Press http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/primarydocuments/Vol2Intro.pdf

ML King Jnr, The Papers of ML King Jnr, vol. II Rediscovering Precious Values, Berkley, University of California Press, (on Maritain, pp. 119-24; on Hegel, pp. 154, 196-201).ML King Jnr, Stride Toward FreedomBernasconi, R, (2009) ‘Our Duty to Conserve: W. E. B. Du Bois's Philosophy of History in Context’ South Atlantic Quarterly Summer2009, Vol. 108 Issue 3, p. 519-540.Bernasconi, R. (2011) ‘The Impossible Logic of Assimilation,’ Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, vol. 19. No. 2 http://jffp.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jffp/article/view/490

Ellison, R. (1952/2001) Invisible Man.Genet, J. (1960) The Blacks: a clown show.Morrison, T. (2005) Song of Solomon.James Meredith http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19734976

Animals

Readings: Bataille, Theory of Religion, pp. 17-25; 27-9; 39-42; 57. Bentham, The Principles of Morals and Legislation, 1789, Chapter XVII, Section1, para 6 and footnotehttp://www.econlib.org/library/Bentham/bnthPML18.html#a122or http://www.animal-rights-library.com/texts-c/bentham01.pdfDerrida, The Animal That Therefore I am, pp. 3-5, 11-14, 23, 25-9, 32, 34, 41, 45-51.Zizek, (2012) Less Than Nothing, pp. 408-416.Hegel, (1984) Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, pp. 49-50.

Descartes, (1985), Discourse on the Method, part 5, 57-60.Adorno, Beethoven, p.80.Levinas, (1990) ‘The Name of a Dog, or Natural Rights’.

Wider reading: Noys, George Bataille, a critical introduction, pp. 136-41.Canetti, Kafka’s Other Trial, pp. 96-103. Porphyry, Select Works of Porphyry: Containing His Four Books on Abstinence from Animal Food, His Treatise on the Homeric Cave of the Nymphs (1823)Montaigne, (2003) Apology for Raymond Sebond, 3.2.Augustine, (2002) On The Trinity, XII. 1 & 2.Hume, A Treatise on Human Nature, pp. 226-9, 375-8, 444-6.Locke, J. (2004) An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II chapter xi.Kant, (1996) or (2012) ‘Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View,’ part 2, section E.Kant, (2012) Lectures on Pedagogy, opening paragraphs, and pp. 449-50 on meat.Kant, (2012) ‘Conjectural beginning of human history’Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of World History: Introduction, p. 133.Leibniz, ‘Principles of Nature and Grace, Based on Reason,’ (1714) in Leibniz, 1998, pp. 258-66.Plato, Timaeus, 42 b-d, 91d – 92c

Republic, 375d – 376cLaws, 961d, Theaetetus, 186 b-c

Aristotle, On the Soul, book2, part 3; 428a19-24; book 3, parts 12-13. Metaphysics, 980b1-981a3History of Animals, 8.1Politics, 1:5.

Rubens, Bellerophon, Pegasus and Chimera (1635); see Homer, The Iliad, book 6, 155-203).Braidotti, (2013) The Posthuman, pp. 67-80.

Henry Corbin and Edward Said: Orient and re-orient

Reading Corbin, H. (1988) Avicenna and the Visionary Recital, Princeton, Princeton University Press, pp. 16-28, 36-8, 80-3, 91-101.Corbin, H. (2006) History of Islamic Philosophy, London, Kegan Paul, p. 249.Said, Orientalism, pp. xxii-xxiii, 31-49, 59-60, 68-73, 96, 104, 108, 110

Wider Reading Corrado, Orientalism in Reverse: Henry Corbin, Iranian Philosophy, and the Critique of the West, at summit.sfu.ca/system/files/iritems1/9613/etd0507.pdf

The Daily Star, (Bangladesh) athttp://www.thedailystar.net/2003/10/04/d31004210289.htm

Said, ‘Zionism from the Standpoint of its Victims’Porter, ‘Orientalism and its Problems’ in Williams, P. and Chrisman, L. (1993)Ahmad, ‘Orientalism and After’ in Williams, P. and Chrisman, L. (1993)

Henry Corbin: Ibn Arabi, sympathy and sovereignty

Reading: Corbin, Alone With the Alone, pp. 29, 79, 82, 94-5, 105-35.

Wider reading: the main websites for Corbin, http://henrycorbinproject.blogspot.co.uk/

Also:From Heidegger to Suhravardi: an interview with Philippe Nemo

http://www.imagomundi.com.br/espiritualidade/corbin_heid_suhr.pdfCheetham, The world turned inside out: Henry Corbin and Islamic mysticismNasr, "Henry Corbin: The Life and Works of the Occidental Exile in Quest of the Orient of Light."Mahmoud, ‘Ta’wil and the Angel’http://www1.amiscorbin.com/textes/anglais/From%20Heidegger%20to%20Suhrawardi%20%27Tawil%20and%20the%20Angel%27.pdfMahmoud, From ‘Heidegger to Suhrawardi’: An Introduction to the thought of Henry Corbin,http://www1.amiscorbin.com/textes/anglais/2007%20From%20Heid.CorbinIntro.pdf

Women

Readings: Butler, Gender Trouble, pp. 2-8, 13-15, 18-25, 194-203.Hooks, Feminist Theory, pp. xi-xii, 6, 16-17, 29, 34-9, 50-1, 84-95.Beauvoir, The Second Sex, pp. 14-29, 93-7 Hutchins, Hegel and Feminist Philosophy, pp. 61-79.Irigaray, ‘’Sexual Difference’ in Whitford, M. (1992) The Irigaray Reader, pp. 165-177.

Irigaray, An Ethics of Sexual Difference, pp. 120-129. ‘Ethics, Sexuality, and embodiment’, in M. Whitford, Luce Irigaray: Philosophy in the Feminine, London, Routledge, pp. 149-168.Zizek, The Ticklish Subject, p. 152 & 302-3Hegel, Philosophy of Right, §166.Adorno, Minima Moralia, p. 173.

Wider reading Riley, Am I That NameIrigaray, Speculum of the Other WomanWollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of WomenRousseau, Emile, book 5.Augustine, (2002) On The Trinity, Book XII.Nyman, (2014) ‘Toward a Theory of Emancipation: Feminist Critiques of Postmodernism’, International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, http://www.ijhssnet.com/journals/Vol_4_No_6_April_2014/21.pdf

Pegelow, (1997) ‘Feminism and Postmodernism’ http://edocs.fu-berlin.de/docs/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/FUDOCS_derivate_000000001185/workingpaper104.pdf?hosts=

HeideggerReading Heidegger, M. (1992) Being and Time, [1927] trans. J. Macquarrie & E.

Robinson, Oxford, Blackwell, pp. 21-35, 276-7, 376-7.Heidegger, M. (1988) The Basic Problems of Phenomenology, [1927] trans. A Hofstadter, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, pp. 16-17, 318-19, 276-7, 282, 221-2, 178.Heidegger, M. (1993) ‘What Calls for Thinking?’ [1951-2], in DF Krell, Basic Writings, London, Routledge, pp. 385, 375.Heidegger, (1987) An Introduction to Metaphysics, [1935], New Haven, Yale UP, pp. 12-19.Heidegger, M. (1998) ‘Postscript to “What is Metaphysics”’, [1943], in W. McNeill (ed.) Martin Heidegger: Pathmarks, Cambridge, Cambridge UP, pp. 231-2.

Wider reading Heidegger, M. (1998) ‘Plato’s Doctrine of Truth’, [1931-2, 1940], in W. McNeill (ed.) Martin Heidegger: Pathmarks, Cambridge, Cambridge UP.Marx, W. (1971) Heidegger and the Tradition, Evanston, Northwestern UP.Hodge, J. (1995) Heidegger and Ethics, London: Routledge.Derrida, J. (1989) Of Spirit, Chicago, Chicago University Press.Rose, G. (1984) Dialectic of Nihilism, Oxford: Blackwell.Adorno, TW (1973) The Jargon of Authenticity, Evanston, Northwestern UP.

Foucault

Readings Foucault, M. (1980) Power/Knowledge London: Harvester, pp. 78-108, 119, 155-8, 187-8 and 198-9.Foucault, M. (1977) Discipline and Punish (Penguin), part 3Foucault, M. (1970) The Order of Things, (London: Routledge), Forward and Preface.

Derrida and Deleuze

Readings: Derrida, Writing and Difference, pp. 254-262Derrida, Margins of Philosophy, pp. 3-16Derrida/Caputo, Deconstruction in a Nutshell, pp. 4-28Derrida, Points, pp. 143-4, 260-2, 340, 356-7, 364.Deleuze, G. and Parnett, C. dialogues II, pp vii-x, 23-5, 45-8, 57-65, and 124-134.

Wider reading. ‘The Legacy of Jacques Derrida’ Modern Language Association, Vol. 120, No. 2 (Mar., 2005), pp. 464-494http://www.yale.edu/polisci/sbenhabib/papers/The%20Legacy%20of%20Jacques%20Derrida.pdf

Adams St. Pierre, E. ‘Deleuzian Concepts for Education: the subject undone’.Critchley, S. and Schroeder, W. A Companion to Continental Philosophy, chapter 51.Deleuze, G. and Guattari, F. a thousand plateaus.Deleuze, G. difference and repetition.Deleuze, G. and Guattari, F. What is Philosophy? Marshall, J.D. Poststructuralism, Philosophy, Pedagogy, chapter 5.Morss, J.R. ‘The Passional Pedagogy of Gilles Deleuze’.Peters, M. Naming the Multiple, Introduction and chapter 6.Roy, K. ‘Overcoming Nihilism: From communication to Deleuzian expression’.

Hospitality

Readings: Levinas, E. (1969/1995) Totality and Infinity, Pittsburgh, Duquesne University Press, pp. 23, 33-40, 43, 47, 50-1, 75, 78, 199, 203-4, 213-14, 256-7.Levinas, E, (1987/1994) Time and the Other, Pittsburgh, Duquesne University Press, pp. 85-90.Levinas, E. (1985) Ethics and Infinity, Pittsburgh, Duquesne University Press, pp. 95-101.

Kearney, R. and Taylor, J. (2011) Hosting the Stranger, London, Continuum, pp. 67-9, 96-9, 105-8, 133-8.Corbin, H. (1969/1997) Alone With The Alone, Princeton, Princeton University Press, pp. 114-17, 130-1.

Wider reading: Goodman, Love Thy Neighbour as Thyself.

Assessment

Assessment 1: (50%) Using texts from weeks 1-4 describe some of the main elements of Nietzsche’s thought (2000-2250 words; deadline: Week 5, Monday 8th Feb given to Catherine in the Office by 3.30pm).

Assessment 2: (50%) Chosen from a list that will reflect our seminar discussions (2000-2250 words; deadline: Week 12, Monday 28th March, given to Catherine in the Office by 3.30pm).

Use Harvard Referencing

We attempt always to return work within 3 working weeks (15 days working days).

References

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MODERN LIBERAL ARTS MARK SCHEME

We want you to be very clear about how we will mark your work and that means you must know with each assessment what you are expected to do. We hope that this does not mean you will feel that you have to write to a formula. We are trying to build in considerable freedom to your assessments; but as the term ‘liberal arts’ conveys, in every freedom there is a discipline, and in every discipline there is a freedom; together, we hope, they constitute the struggle of learning.

There are (often but not always) two types of essays in MLA: the first assessment title in a module will most often be set by the tutor and will be restricted to texts explored in the first weeks. The second assessment title can be tutor-led, or chosen from a list of titles, or can be negotiated individually; this varies according to the tutor and the module. This assignment can explore wider issues, employ wider reading, or explore a single issue in depth. Students will bear some responsibility for the references consulted in the second essay, increasing through years 1, 2 and 3.

Tutor-set assessments (disciplina) Student/tutor-set assessments (libertas)

1st module essay

Marks for depth of understanding specialist

terminology depth of understanding of set texts depth of understanding of ideas/concepts evidence by quotation answering the question correct referencing word limit

2nd module essay

Marks for depth of understanding of texts depth of understanding and application of

ideas/concepts evidence-based critical arguments depth/breadth of reading (depending on

the question) answering your own question correct referencing word limit

Note the difference between essays 1 and 2: the first one is marked only on your understanding of texts; the second one is marked on understanding, on your own reading, and your emerging critical voice. Be careful here; being critical does not mean just giving your opinions. It means making a case based on evidence from your reading, using ideas and concepts from texts. It does not mean you have to fight for one side of an

argument or another… ambivalence will be treated with great respect. But for every essay, remember this: if we (and you) get the title right, then by answering the question you will be doing exactly what is required. Over years 1, 2 and 3 the levels of your work are raised by using increasingly challenging texts, ideas, concepts and writers, and by the way you are able to employ ideas, concepts and writers from other modules across the degree in increasingly sophisticated ways.

For all essays, then

Depending on the question you will need to

Demonstrate reflection on module material and the wider contexts from across the degree which might impact upon it

Communicate experiences of texts and ideas as appropriate Show knowledge and understanding of specialist terminology Demonstrate requisite research skills in gathering, summarizing and presenting evidence including

proficiency in referencing and academic conventions.

For essay 1

Depending on the question you will need to

Show careful reading of primary sources Show a knowledge of theoretical perspectives and/or works Show an understanding of abstract concepts and ideas within theoretical perspectives Show an ability to work with theorists and their concepts in various forms of assessment as

appropriate Show evidence of engagement with texts and ideas concerned with issues raised in the module.

For essay 2

Depending on the question you will need to

Show an ability to employ theorists critically in relation to issues Show an ability to use concepts as critical tools in discussing issues and questions as appropriate Show an ability to employ theoretical perspectives as critical tools Therein, to develop a critical voice informed and deepened by appropriate use of theory as

critique. Sustain a critical relationship to ideas related to the module

It is often hard to explain in generic terms how any particular essay could have been improved. But, cautiously, we can say the following:

In general,

a 3rd (40-49%) may have ignored the question, may have not given much evidence of reading, may have clumsy sentence structure, but will still have made a bona fide attempt at the work.

a 2.2 (50-59%) will have provided evidence of reading, quotations where appropriate, clear sentence structure, attended to the question or title, but not related the material in ways which synthesise more developed and complex thinking.

a 2.1 (60-69%) will have evidence of reading through effective selection of quotation, being able to make specific points, and to relate material together to make broader and/or deeper and more complex observations. At the higher end, it may have been able to relate material from across modules, or across the degree as a whole, to synthesise separate ideas and issues into more holistic comments, ideas and problems. The questions addressed will be getting ever more difficult and important, including those that are asked without being answered.

a 1st (70-100%) will make a little go a long way. Quotations may carry implications beyond their precise content; sentences will be clear but able to refine complex ideas succinctly; most importantly, it will be able to combine the microcosm of its subject matter with the macrocosm of its place in the wider context, and these contexts will be drawn form the overall, experience of the degree, growing obviously from years 1 to 3. No inaccuracies of grammar or sentence construction, and no referencing mistakes are expected here. The voice of the essay will be in control of difficult material throughout. Above all the questions asked and addressed will be compelling in their difficulty and import.

Module Evaluations (previous year)

The module evaluations for this module were very positive. Comments included the value of the reading packs, interesting content, the availability of the tutor for guidance and support, good integration of this material within the whole degree, and a high level of thought-provoking teaching which provoked great discussions. One evaluation commented that while he or she felt his or her brain exploding, this may well be a good thing. This is one of the modules in which flexibility is called for, and the second half of the module is always amended to fit student interest. In this case, students were given a list of topics to choose from and the second half of the module ran according to those choices. Many students were encouraged to pursue their own interests in the second essay.

Catalogue summary

The dialectic of enlightenment is one of the most profound and worrying expressions of modern rational thought. We have seen in previous modules the effect that doubt has on how we understand the work and identity of human subjectivity. Now we will explore the damage wrought by uncertainty and doubt on other fundamental concepts including freedom and enlightenment. Our task will be to see if there is something we can learn from the difficulties of the dialectic of enlightenment when we see within it how truth collapses into a culture of repetition.