California College of the Arts
Social Science/Philosophy 200-06:
Marx and Nietzsche
Mondays 4-7pm, GC2
Frederick M. Dolan
Texts:
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The Marx-Engels Reader ed. Tucker (Norton).
Friedrich Nietzsche. The Portable Nietzsche ed. Kaufmann (Penguin).
Friedrich Nietzsche. The Birth of Tragedy trans. Speirs (Cambridge).
––. The Gay Science trans. Kaufmann (Vintage).
––. Beyond Good and Evil trans. Hollingdale (Penguin).
––. On the Genealogy of Morality trans. Diethe (Cambridge).
Schedule of readings and discussions:
Part One: Marx
September 12: Introduction.
September 19: Marx, The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (pp. 66-125) (all page references to readings from Marx and Engels refer to The Marx-Engels Reader ed. Tucker).
September 26: Marx & Engels, selections from The German Ideology (pp. 146-200).
October 3: Marx, selections from: Wage Labor and Capital (pp. 203-217); “Introduction” to the Grundrisse (pp. 221-246).
October 10: Capital Volume One, chapters I-IX (pp. 302-361).
October 17: Marx, “On the Realm of Necessity and the Realm of Freedom”
(pp. 439-441); “Critique of the Gotha Program” (pp. 525-541); Marx
& Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party (pp. 469-500).
Part Two: Nietzsche
October 24: Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy. First essay due.
October 31: Nietzsche, The Gay Science, Book One (§1, §13, §18, §39), Book Three (§132), Book Four (§283, §290), Book Five (entire); Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Parts One and Two.
November 7: Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality, Preface and First and Second Essays.
November 14: Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality, Third Essay; Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Part Five.
November 21: Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (in The Portable Nietzsche ed. Kaufmann), First Part.
November 28: Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (in The Portable Nietzsche ed. Kaufmann), Second Part.
December 5: Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (in The Portable Nietzsche ed. Kaufmann), Third Part.
December 12: Nietzsche, “The Problem of Socrates,” “‘Reason’ in
Philosophy,” and “How the ‘True World’ Finally Became a Fable,” in Twilight of the Idols (in The Portable Nietzsche ed. Kaufmann); Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ (in The Portable Nietzsche ed. Kaufmann). Second Essay due.
Graduate Program in Fine Arts
Working Group on the Concept of Art
Fall Semester, 2011
F. Dolan
The Working Group on the Concept of Art will consist of a small group
of students who will explore together and with me the concept of the
artwork in relation to their own studio work and to that of established
artists. We will meet on and in a variety of occasions and contexts:
seminars on the theory of art; studio visits; field trips to artists’
studios and worksites; archives; and other venues depending on how our
interests develop. Although we will read and discuss some important
texts on the theory of art, the emphasis of the Working Group will be
on establishing and developing a set of working hypotheses, concepts,
ideas, and vocabulary that will be useful to us in getting a handle on
the phenomenon we call “art.” Initial discussions will focus on what
sort of concept is appropriate to art – with whether, for example, art
can be defined, and, if it cannot, with what sorts of general things
may be said about it and how they may best be said. From this point of
departure, the direction of the conversation will depend on what we
turn up and the desires and aims of the members of the Working Group.
Our sourcebook will be:
Cahn, et al (eds.), Aesthetics: A Comprehensive Anthology (Blackwell, 2007).