文化脈絡中的天才與白痴

課程要求Course Requirements Class participation, presentation and discussion constitute 50% of the grade; the term paper, double space 20 pages if in English, constitutes 50% of the grade. 課堂引言與討論參與占學期成績50%。約一萬字的學期研究報告,占學期成績50%。

2/15 Course Introduction 課程介紹 Topic 1: Parables of the Genius 天才的寓言 2/22 Sociological and Hermeneutical perspectives George Herbert Mead (1962) “The Social Creativity of the Emergent Self,” Mind, Self, & Society, Works of George Herbert Mead Volume 1, the University of Chicago Press, pp. 214-222. Theodor W. Adorno (1997) Aesthetic Theory, translated and edited by Robert Hullot-Kentor, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 163-175. Read closely pp. 170-172 on the relation between concepts of “Spontaneity”, “Genius”, and “Originality.” Hans-Georg Gadamer (1989) “The Aesthetic of Genius and the Concept of Experience (Erlebnis),” Truth and Method. 2nd revised edition, translated by Joel Weinsheimer and Donald G. Marshall, New York, NY: Continuum, pp. 55-60, 89-100. 3/1 Genius in Latin and Neme in Gola Giorgio Agamben (2007) “Genius,” Profanations, translated by Jeff Fort, Brooklyn, NY: Zone Books, pp. 9-18. Warren L. D’Azevedo (1997) “Sources of Gola Artistry.” In Susan Feagin & Patrick Maynard (eds) Aesthetics: Oxford Readers, Oxford University Press, pp. 197-200. 3/8 Psychobiographical Analysis of Genius: A Critique Ernst Gombrich (1996) “Verbal Wit as a Paradigm of Art: the Aesthetic Theories of Sigmund Freud,” The Essential Gombrich. London: Phaidon, pp.189-210. Bradley I. Collins (1997) “Introduction,” “Chapter 6: Trauma and Genius: Eissler’s Leonardo,” “Conclusion,” Leonardo, Psychoanalysis, & Art History: a Critical Study of Psychobiographical Approaches to Leonardo da Vinci. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, pp. 1-2, 111-126, 166-186. 3/15 Psychobiographical Analysis, continued Michael Fitzgerald (2005) The Genesis of Artistic Creativity: Asperger’s Syndrome and the Arts. London: Jessica Kingsle. Read “Introduction: Asperger’s Syndrome and Artistic Creativity,” pp. 9-26; browse the rest of the book. Kay Redfield Jamison (1993) Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament, New York, NY: Free Press. Read “Introduction: That Fine Madness,” pp. 1-9; browse the rest of the book. 3/22 A Prodigy Writes on Prodigy Alissa Quart (2006) Hothouse Kids: the Dilemma of the Gifted Child. New York, NY: Penguin. Topic 2: Parables of the Idiot 白痴的寓言 3/29 Idiocy: A Cultural History Patrick McDonagh (2008) “Introduction: idiocy, culture and human relations,” “Chapter 6: holy fools, witty fools, depraved fools: folly, innocence and sin,” Idiocy: A Cultural History. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, pp. 1-23, 129-151. 4/5 Spring Break 春假 4/12 Idiocies and Representation Martin Halliwell (2004) “Introduction: Idiocy and Cultural Representation,” “Conclusion: Idiocy in Contemporary Film,” Image of Idiocy: The Idiot Figure in Modern Fiction and Film. Burlington VT: Ashgate, pp. 1-25, 215-234. Jackson, Mark (2000) “Chapter 4: Image of Deviance,” The Borderline of Imbecility: Medicine, Society and the Fabrication of the Feeble Mind in Late Victorian and Edwardian England. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 89-128. 4/19 Mental Deficiency into Politics, Legislation, and IQ Test Mathew Thomson (1998) “Introduction,” and “Chapter 8: Mental Deficiency and the Welfare State,” The Problem of Mental Deficiency: Eugenics, Democracy, and Social Policy in Britain c. 1870-1959. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 1-35, 270-296. James W. Trent (1994) “Introduction,” and “Chapter 6: Sterilization, Parole and Routinization,” Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, pp. 1-6, 184- 224. Troy Duster (2003) “Chapter 1: Inherited Genetic Disorders and Inherited Social Orders,” and “Chapter 6: The Increasing Appropriation of Genetic Explanations,” Backdoor to Eugenics, 2nd edition, London: Routledge, pp. 3-20, 95-113. 4/26 Invited Speech吳哲良教授演講,講題: Edith Sheffer (2020) Asperger’s Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna, 《亞斯伯格的孩子們:自閉症在維也納的起源》,吳哲良、黃明慧譯,新竹交通大學出版社。 5/3 Parent and Professional Activism as Shaping Force Pearl Buck(賽珍珠)(1950), The Child Who Never Grew. Ian Hacking (2015) “On the Ratio of Science to Activism In the Shaping of Autism.” In Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry III: the Nature and Sources of Historical Change, edited by K. S. Kendler and J. Parnas (eds.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 326-339. Allison Carey (2009) On the Margins of Citizenship: Intellectual Disability and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America. Philadelphia PA: Temple University Press. Chapters 5, 6, pp. 83-133. 5/10 Questions of Speciesism and Inviolability Peter Singer (2010) “Speciesism and Moral Status,” All Animals Are Equal.” In Cognitive Disability and its Challenge to Moral Philosophy, edited by Eva Kittay and Licia Carlson. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 331-344. Jeff McMahan (2010) “Cognitive Disability and Cognitive Enhancement.” In Cognitive Disability and its Challenge to Moral Philosophy, pp.345-367. 5/17 Cognitive Disability as Challenge to Moral Philosophy Martha Nussbaum (2010) “The Capabilities of People with Cognitive Disabilities.” In Cognitive Disability and its Challenge to Moral Philosophy, pp. 75-95. Michael Bérubé (2010) “Equality, Freedom, and/or Justice for All: A Response to Martha Nussbaum.” In Cognitive Disability and its Challenge to Moral Philosophy, pp. 97-109. Licia Carlson (2010) “Philosophers of Intellectual Disability: A Taxonomy.” in In Cognitive Disability and its Challenge to Moral Philosophy, pp. 315-329. Kittay, Eva (2010) “The Personal Is Philosophical Is Political: A Philosopher and Mother of a Cognitively Disabled Person Sends Notes from the Battlefield.” In Cognitive Disability and its Challenge to Moral Philosophy, pp.393-413. 5/24 Neurodiversity, Rainbow Intelligence Ian Hacking (2010) “How We Have Been Learning to Talk About Autism: A Role for Storis,” In Cognitive Disability and its Challenge to Moral Philosophy, pp. 261-278. Antonetta, Susanne (2005) “Prologue,” “Ship of Fool”, A Mind Apart: Travels in a Neurodiverse World. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/ Penguin, pp. 1-13, 94-113. Thomas Armstrong (2010) “Chapter 1: Neurodiversity: A Concept Whose Time Has Come,” and “Chapter 7: The Rainbow of Intelligences,” The Power of Neurodiversity, Cambridge: Da Capo Press, pp. 1-26, 137-158, 5/31 Bring one page proposal of the term paper for discussion in Class , 繳交一頁(約一千字)學期研究報告計畫,課堂討論 6/7 Potluck Party