文化研究理論(博)

Introduction to Cultural Theories

學期

110-1

學分

3 學分

當期課號

4047

永久課號

ICS5010

開課單位

社會與文化研究所

授課教師

陳奕麟、王智明、朱元鴻

類別

必修

上課時間表

節	週一
A 18:30–19:20	文化研究理論(博) F106A 3 節連堂
B 19:30–20:20
C 20:30–21:20

* 根據陽明交大上課時間表所列

概述

This course aims to introduce some classical cultural theories for students to engage with contemporary critical issues. We divide this course into three units. The first unit focuses on the concept of “Enlightenment” in Schmidt, Kant, Fichte, Foucault, and some other contemporary thinkers. The second unit traces the evolution of Foucault's thoughts on discourse and practice in relation of the birth of postmodern “theory.” The third unit aims to introduce students to an array of classics central to the cultural studies project and its diverse methodologies, so as to arrive at an understanding of how culture matters in the intersections of geography, history, race, class, nation, and migration. 本門課的設計宗旨在於協助學生從經典文化理論出發,透過跨學科的思考路徑,進入文化研究的歷史脈絡以及當代議題。我們將探討的面向區分為三大單元: 1. 第一單元:聚焦於啟蒙思想,閱讀經典啟蒙思想,並且將這些不同的啟蒙思想放回歷史時代脈絡,並且討論啟蒙思潮與我們當代的切身關連。 2. 第二單元:以傅柯的著作為典範,展開關於知識考古學到社會系譜學的銜接,討論後現代理論的誕生,論述和實踐的發展與互相關連,以便闡釋後現代「理論」的歷史突破及「當代」文化研究的未來趨勢。 3. 第三單元:旨在向學生介紹一系列啟發文化研究的經典著作及其方法論,以理解文化如何在地理、歷史、種族、階級、國家和遷徙中發揮作用。

先修科目

英文讀寫能力

評分方式

第一單元的評量基於課程參與討論,以及一篇約六千字的報告。第五週上課時每位同學繳交一頁的報告主題構想,課堂上每位做五分鐘的口頭報告,相互討論。第二單元:Two take home essays of 2000-2500 words each, topics for which will be given in due course. Both essays will be due at end of term. 作業要求:本單元作業要求是兩篇(筆試)報告,學期結束前隨時可以交。筆試題目待定;每個題目原則上寫2000-2500字的答案。第三單元:The students are required to submit three response papers (2 pages each) detailing their reactions to the assigned readings by the end of the unit, and a final paper (5 pages) explaining the function or role of literature in the works we read by the end of the semester. 在本單元結束前,修課同學必須繳交三篇(每篇至少兩頁)閱讀筆記,紀錄自己的閱讀反思;並在學期末前,繳交一份(五頁)的報告,解釋所讀的作者如何看待文學的作用或角色。

週次計畫

週次	主題
第 1 週	google meet視訊連結如下, meet.google.com/vbw-tssf-coz Week 1 Introduction. Unit I: The Enlightenment and Its Contemporary Relevance啟蒙思潮與當代情境 Instructor: Yuan-Horng Chu(朱元鴻授課) We may have read some of the literature on Enlightenment, but often read them detached from the background of its time, and do not necessarily understand the context of the struggle from the historical and social background. If we read them closely attached to the era of Afklärung, such as the Prussian society in the last quarter of the eighteenth Century, these literatures will reveal that the Enlightenment is passionately engaged in its contemporary struggle: that is, against religious authorities and secular rulers: the censorship of thoughts, knowledge, and expressions. We will find that many contemporary societies in the 21st century are still in a similar situation, such as the control and screening of the mass media, the Internet and social media in China and some Islamic countries, the purge with laws against blasphemy or incitement to subversion, as well as similar struggles for freedom of thought and speech. This module re-reads several key documents of the late eighteenth Century, through Michel Foucault’s interpretation of Afklärung and modernity, and the current controversies between the freedom of speech recognized by Western societies and the crimes of Blasphemy purged in Islamic societies, to understand the continuing relevance of Enlightenment to our contemporary world. 我們可能讀過一些啟蒙思潮的文獻,但常是抽離開時代背景地讀其文章,未必參照著歷史社會背景來理解這些文獻發自什麼樣的鬥爭脈絡。若我們貼著 Afklärung 所發生的時代,例如十八世紀最後廿年間的普魯士社會,那麼讀這些文章將發現啟蒙思潮乃熱烈投入其當代切身的鬥爭:亦即,針對來自宗教權威與世俗統治者對於思想、知識探討與言說表達的檢禁(censorship)。我們將發現,廿一世紀許多當代社會仍處於類似的情境,例如中國以及一些伊斯蘭政教國家對於媒體與互聯網的內容控制與屏蔽,以及因言論而招致褻瀆罪(Blasphemy)(或煽動顛覆罪)的律法等等,而也發生著爭取思想與言說自由的類似鬥爭。本單元重讀幾篇十八世紀末的關鍵文獻,藉著傅柯對於Afklärung與覺察的現代性所做的闡說,以及當代伊斯蘭社會以褻瀆罪進行教令格殺(fatwa)相對於西方認知的言論自由之間不斷衝突的論辯,來理解啟蒙思潮與我們當代的切身關連。
第 2 週	Week 2: James Schmidt, “What Is Enlightenment? A Question, Its Context, and Some Consequences,” Introduction to What is Enlightenment? Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions, pp. 1-44 Kant, “An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment,” [1784] edited in Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions, pp. 58-64.
第 3 週	Week 3 J. G. Fichte, “Reclamation of the Freedom of Thought from the Princes of Europe, Who have Oppressed it Until Now,” [1793] edited in Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions, pp. 119-141. Michel Foucault, “What Is Critique?” Edited in Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions, pp. 382-398.
第 4 週	Week 4 Michel Foucault, The Government of Self and Others: Lectures at the Collège de France 1982-1983, pp. 1-40. Michel Foucault, “What is Enlightenment,” Michel Foucault the Essential Works, vol. 1: Ethics, pp. 303-319.
第 5 週	Week 5 Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, and Saba Mahmood, Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech.
第 6 週	Week 6 Each student should bring one page proposal for the unit paper, do a brief in class, and all are expected to contribute comments and suggestions to other’s subject- idea. 本單元的評量基於課程參與討論,以及一篇約六千字的報告。第五週上課時每位同學繳交一頁的報告主題構想,課堂上每位做五分鐘的口頭報告,相互討論。
第 7 週	Unit II: The Birth of Postmodern Theory from the Archaeology of Knowledge to Genealogy of Society從知識考古學到社會系譜學—後現代理論的誕生 Instructor: Allen Chun 授課老師:陳奕麟 Synopsis: This unit traces the evolution of Foucault’s thoughts on discourse and practice in relation of the birth of postmodern “theory”. 本單元以Foucault的著作為典範,探討論述和實踐的發展甚至互相關連,以便闡釋後現代「理論」的歷史突破及「當代」文化研究的未來趨勢。 required reading (必讀著作);+recommended (選讀);others for reference (參考) Week 7: Discourse as Author-ity of Writing (論述的書寫權威性) Foucault, Michel, 1976, “What is an Author?”, in Textual Strategies, J.V. Harari ed., Cornell University Press. +Clifford, James, 1983, “On Ethnographic Authority”, Representations 1(2): 119-46. +Rosaldo, Renato, 1993, “Narrative Analysis”, in Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis, Boston: Beacon Press. +West, Cornell, 1990, “The New Cultural Politics of Difference”, October 53: 93-109. +Butler, Judith, 1990, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Berkeley: University of California Press, Chapter 1.
第 8 週	Week 8: Birth of Human Sciences as modern episteme (人文科學的誕生) *Foucault, Michel, 1970, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences [词与物:人文科学考古学,上海三联书店,2001] London: Tavistock. Sheridan, Alan, 1980, Michel Foucault: The Will to Truth, London: Tavistock, Chapter 2.
第 9 週	Week 9: Knowledge and Archaeological Method (知識體系的考古學方法) Foucault, Michel, 1972, The Archaeology of Knowledge, [知識的考掘,麥田,1993], New York: Pantheon, Parts I-III. Foucault, Michel, 1991, “Politics and the Study of Discourse”, in The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality, G. Burchell et al eds., University of Chicago Press. +Davidson, Arnold I., 2001, The Emergence of Sexuality: Historical Epistemology and the Formation of Concepts, Harvard University Press, Chapters 7-8. Sheridan, Alan, 1980, Michel Foucault: The Will to Truth, London: Tavistock, Chapter 3.

教科書

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