PS 215b is a course on twentieth century political theory. The core text we shall be examining are the same as those for my PS 112d, which is where you’ll find them in the ASUC bookstore They are Lenin, “What is to be done?” and “State and Revolution,” in The Lenin Reader; Lukács, “Class Consciousness,” in History and Class Consciousness, pp 46-82; Gramsci. Selections from the Prison Notebooks, pp. 5-23, 206-7;
Supplementary reading
Raymond Geuss, Philosophy and Real Politics
George Lichtheim, Marxism. A Historical and Critical Study (p)
A Short History of Socialism (p)
Perry Anderson, Considerations on Western Marxism (p)
Ernst Nolte, Three Faces of Fascism (p)
Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination (p)
------------ Marxism and Totality (p)
Lenin
Carl E. Schorske, German Social Democracy (p)
James Joll, The Second International
Bertrand D. Wolfe, Three Who Made a Revolution (p)
Leopold Haimson, The Russian Marxists and the Origins of Bolshevism
Alfred Meyer, Leninism
Georg Lukács, Lenin, A Study of the Unity of his Thought (p)
Paul Thomas, Alien Politics (p)
Lukács
Andrew Feenberg, Lukács, Marx and Sources of Critical Theory (p)
Eugene Lunn, Marxism and Modernism (p)
Seyla Benhabib, Situating the Self (p), chs 3-4
Gramsci
Paul Thomas, Alien Politics
Paul Piccone, Italian Marxism (p)
John M. Cammett, Antonio Gramsci and the Origins of Italian Communism
Water Adamson, Hegemony and Revolution. Antonio Gramsci’s Political and Cultural History
Anne Showstack Sassoon, Gramsci’s Politics (p)
Martin Clark, Antonio Gramsci and the Revolution that Failed
Freud
Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization (p)
Philip Rieff, Freud.The Mind of the Moralist
Bruno Bettelheim, Freud and Man’s Soul (p)
Peter Gay, Freud. A Life for our Times
Marcuse
Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination (p)
Morton Schoolman, The Imaginary Witness: The Critical Theory of Herbert Marcuse (p)
Barry Katz, Herbert Marcuse and the Art of Liberation (p)
Habermas
Martin Jay, Marxism and Totality (p), ch 15
Raymond Geuss, The Idea of a Critical Theory: Habermas and the Frankfurt School
Thomas McCarthy, The Critical Theory of Jürgen Habermas
John B. Thompson and David Held, Habermas: Critical Debates (p)
Arendt
George Kateb, Hannah Arendt. Politics, Conscience, Evil
Margaret Canovan, Hannah Arendt. A Reinterpretation of her Political Thought
Hanna Pitkin, The Attack of the Blob. Hanna Arendt’s Concept of the Social
Elizabeth Young-Bruehl, Hannah Arendt. For Love of the World
Why Arendt Matters
Foucault
Fred Dallmayr, Politics and Praxis, ch 3
Martin Jay, Marxism and Totality(p), Epilogue
Hubert L. Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow, Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics
David Macey, Foucault (p)