You might notice a gap in time here. The following list should explain my absence over the next few months– the following are the texts I have chosen for a comp exam in Cultural Theory. I am interested in studying the bible as a cultural icon, a sacred object, and a piece of literature. This list has been honed to help me become conversant in cultural theory and its insights into these subjects.
1- Interpretation/Hermeneutics
Gadamer, Hans-Georg. Truth and Method (focus: 265-307, 381-491, Supplement II)
Heidegger, Martin. “Discourse on Thinking”
–,“Phenomenology and Theology”
–,“The Question Concerning Technology”
Long, Charles. Significations
Ricouer, Paul. Figuring the Sacred
–, Interpretation Theory
1-Materialism
Marx, Karl. The Philosophical and Economic Manuscripts
Althusser, Louis. “Ideological State Apparatus” in Lenin and Philosophy
1-Psychological Critique
Freud, Sigmund. Future of an Illusion
Zizek, Slovav. Reading Lacan
Nietzsche, Fredrick. Genealogy of Morals
2-Frankfurt School/Cultural Studies/Post-colonialism
Benjamin, Walter. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” and “Theses on the Philosophy of History” in Illuminations
Nandy, Ashis. The Intimate Enemy
Said, Edward. Orientalism
Horkhiemer, Max. “Traditional and Critical Theory”
Adorno, Theodore. “The Culture Industry” and “How to Look at Television”
Marcuse, Herbert. Eros and Civilization
Hebdige, Dick. Subcultures. “Meaning of Style”
De Certeau, Michel. The Practice of Everyday Life
Tong, Rosemary. Feminist Thought
Surber, Jere. Culture and Critique
3-Structuralism/Post-structuralism
de Saussure, Ferdinand. Course in General Linguistics (focus: 1-25, 65-70, 111-127)
Jameson, Fredric. “Introduction” in Postmodernism: The Logic of Late Capitalism
Barthes, Roland. “Myth Today” in Mythologies
–, Elements of Semiology
Delueze, Giles and Felix Guattari. Neitzsche and Philosophy
–, “On Nomadology” in A Thousand Plateaus
Derrida, Jacque. On Grammatology
Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish
Lyotard, Jean-François. The Postmodern Condition
