Department
of Political & International Relations, Rhodes University
Pol 101,
2010
Philosophy & Event
Week One: The American Revolution
(1776-1783)
Compulsory Reading
John Locke, Second Treatise on Government (1689)
[Excerpts]
Thomas Paine
‘Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession’, Chapter 3 of Common Sense (1776)
The Declaration of Independence, 1776
Recommended Reading
John Locke,
'Of the Ends of Political Society and Government', Chapter 9 from the Second Treatise on Government, 1969
Peter
Linebaugh, Introduction to Thomas Paine's Common
Sense, Rights of Man and Agrarian Justice, 2009
Week Two: The French Revolution
(1789-1799)
Compulsory Reading
Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1763
[Excerpts]
Declaration of the Rights of Man
& Citizen, 1789
Maximilien
Robespierre, Justification for the Use of
Terror, 1794 [Excerpts]
Mary
Wollstonecraft, 'Of The Pernicious Effects Which Arise From The Unnatural
Distinctions Established In Society', Chapter 9 of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792
Recommended Reading
Slavoj
Zizek, Robespierre or the "Divine
Violence" of Terror, 2006
Week Three: The Haitian Revolution
(1791-1804)
Compulsory Reading
Peter
Hallward, Haitian Inspiration, 2004
Constitution
of 1801
Act of
Independence, 1804
Hegel
'Independence and Dependence of Self Consciousness: Lordship and Bondage', an
extract from The Phenomenology of Spirit,
1807
Film: Burn! Gillo Pontecorvo, 1969
Recommended Reading
Susan
Buck-Mors, Hegel and Haiti, 2000
C.L.R.
James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint
Louverture and the San Domingo Revolution, 1936
Michel-Rolph
Trouillot Silencing the Past, 1995
Week Four: The Russian Revolution (1917)
Compulsory Reading
Karl Marx
& Frederich Engels, The Communist
Manifesto, 1848 [Excerpt]
Vladimir
Lenin, What is to be Done? Burning
Questions of our Movement, 1902 [Excerpt]
Rosa
Luxemburg, Organisational Questions of
the Russian Revolution, 1904
Antonio
Gramsci, The Revolution Against 'Capital', 1917
Film:
October: Ten Days that Shook the World,
Sergei Eisenstein, 1927
Recommended reading
Emma
Goldman, My Disillusionment in Russia,
1923
Cornelius
Castoriadis, The Role of Bolshevik
Ideology in the Birth of Bureaucracy, 1962
Alain
Badiou, The Communist Invariant, 2008
Week Five: The Cuban Revolution
(1959)
Compulsory Reading
Jean-Paul
Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism,
1946
Pablo
Neruda, The United Fruit Company,
1950
The Declaration of Havana, 1960
Che Guevara,
Create Two, Three, Many Vietnams,
1967
Film: Che, Steven Sonderbergh, 2008
Recommended Reading
Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire,1970
The Underside of Modernity, Enrique Dussel, 1993
Week Six: The Algerian Revolution (1954-1962)
Compulsory Reading
Frantz
Fanon, 'Algeria Unveiled', Chapter 1 of A
Dying Colonialism, 1959
Frantz
Fanon, 'The Pitfalls of National Consciousness' [excerpt], Chapter 3 from The Wretched of the Earth, 1961
Proclamation
to the Algerian People, Front de Liberation Nationale, 1954
Editorial of
the First Issue of “El Moudjahid”, Front de Liberation Nationale, 1956
Film: The
Battle of Algiers, Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966
Recommended Reading
Aimé
Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism,
1951
Jean-Paul
Sartre, 'Racism and Colonialism as Praxis and Process', Excerpt from The Critique of Dialectical Reason, 1960
Amilcar
Cabral, The Weapon of Theory, 1966
Alice Cherki
Frantz Fanon: A Portrait, 2006
