political
science 404/ 511
RECOGNITION
& IDENTITY in
FEMINISM & MULTICULTURALISM:
Nussbaum, Taylor, & Kymlicka
Don Carmichael
Tues evenings, 6-9 pm
Phone: 492‑5390 First
Term, 1999-2000
e-mail:
Don.Carmichael@ualberta.ca
Course
Outline
This course will be a seminar
on some issues of recognition and identity in feminism and multiculturalism ---
drawing particularly on some recent works by Martha Nussbaum, Charles Taylor
and Will Kymlicka..
The course will be conducted
as a seminar. Students will be expected
to contribute actively in discussions and the seminar will be organized around
the presentation of student papers.
Two short seminar papers (5‑7
pp) will be required during the term, plus a somewhat longer paper at the end
of the term. There will be ample choice
of topics for all essays. Students will also be expected to prepare brief
digests (1‑2 pp) of the major readings each week. (This may be replaced by pop quizzes)
Grades* Essays: (3 @ equal weight) 80%
Commentary 10%
Oral contributions 10%
*The reading digests ‑‑
which must be submitted each week before the seminar ‑‑ will be
graded only as satisfactory/ unsatisfactory.
But they are a necessity and marks will be deducted from the final grade
(up to two stanines) for missing digests.
Graduate Students: The course will be taught as a combined
undergraduate (411) and graduate (511) course.
Graduate students will not be expected to do extra work: they will be
expected to do the same work better.
Texts Kymlicka, Multicultural Citizenship
Taylor, Multiculturalism (Ed gutmann)
Supplementary
Readings for Political Science 404/511 (a course pack)
Office Hours: Wednesday afternoons (2:15 - 4:00) and by
appointment
Essay Requirements
All essays should be terse,
analytical, and "positional" ‑‑ arguing a definite thesis
in relation to some aspect of the readings.
Students are encouraged to develop their own views in these essays ‑‑
eg, by contesting a specific claim made in the readings, or by arguing a rival
thesis on the topic, or (in certain cases) by writing a critical response to a
fellow student in the seminar. The only
requirement is that the essay argue a
specific and explicitly stated thesis
("In this essay I will argue that... ")
TOPICS &
READINGS
The readings listed below are
required for each date. Recommended Readings for various topics are
listed at the end, along with contact numbers for members of the seminar.
Sept 21 B Nussbaum 1:
Judging other Cultures, Judging other Persons
Nussbaum, AJudging Other Cultures@ (Readings, pp 151-156)
Nussbaum - Wolf, AHuman Capabilities, Female Human Beings@ (Readings,
123-150)
Nussbaum, AWhether from Reason or Prejudice@ (Readings, pp
206-214)
Sept 28 B Nussbaum 2:
Feminism and Liberalism
Nussbaum, AEquity and Mercy@ (Readings, pp 157-178)
Nussbaum, AConstructing Love, Desire and Care@ (Readings, pp
179-190)
Nussbaum, AThe Feminist Critique of Liberalism@ (Readings, pp
191-205)
Oct. 5 B Nussbaum
3: Feminism, Aristotle and Philosophy
Nussbaum -
Lutz, AEmotions
and Women=s Capabilities@ (Readings, pp 85-105)
Nussbaum - Hurley, ANon-Relative Virtues@ (Readings, pp 106-122)
Oct. 12 B Taylor 1: The
Politics of Recognition
Multiculturalism, pp
25-103 (Taylor + comments by Wolf, Rockefeller and Walzer)
Oct. 19 B Taylor 2: Other
Perspectives
Multiculturalism,
pp3-23 (Gutmann), and pp 107-163 (Habermas, Appiah)
Nussbaum, APatriotism and Cosmopolitanism@ (Readings, pp 1-8)
Response by Putnam,
AMust We Choose?@ (Readings, pp 9-12)
Oct. 26 B Taylor 3: Philosophical
Foundations
Taylor, Sources of
The Self chs 1-2 (Readings, pp 26-41)
Hegel, AMaster-Servant Dialectic@
(to be distributed)
Nov. 2 B Taylor 4: The Conflicts of
Modernity
Taylor, Sources of
The Self ch 25 (Readings, pp 42-55)
Taylor, AAtomism@ (Readings, pp 13-25)
Hegel, AMaster-Servant Dialectic@
(cont=d)
Nov. 9 B Kymlicka 1: Multiculturalism
Kymlicka, Multicultural Citizenship, chs 1-3
Nov 16 -- Kymlicka
2: Liberalism and Multiculturalism
Kymlicka,
Multicultural Citizenship, chs 4-5
Nov 23 B Kymlicka 3: Justice and
Minorities
Kymlicka,
Multicultural Citizenship, chs 6-8
Nov. 30 B Kymlicka 4: Is
Multiculturalism Areally@ a good Thing?
Kymlicka,
Multicultural Citizenship, chs 9-10
Okin, AIs Multiculturalism Bad for Women?@ (Readings,
pp 73-82)
Kymlicka, ALiberal Complacencies@ (Readings, pp 83-84)
Dec. 7 B Nussbaum - Taylor
Taylor, AExplanation and Practical Reason@ (Readings, pp
56-67)
Nussbaum,
Commentary (Readings, pp 68-72)
Monday, Dec. 13th
: Final Paper due
SOME RECOMMENDED
READINGS BY TOPIC
Taylor:
"The New
'Public Order': Within and Above" by Joseph Baldacchino [A
review of Taylor's Sources of the Self ]
A Review of Taylor's The Ethics of Authenticity , by Michael Novak (First
Things, May 1993)
Don't Think for Yourself Unless You Can by
Alan Ryan (a review of The Ethics of Authenticity, NYTBR, September 27,
1992)
A Review of
Taylor's Multiculturalism and the "Politics of Recognition" , by Edward T. Oakes
(First Things, April 1993)
Giroux, Henry A , ANational identity and the politics of multiculturalism@, 1995.
http://www.sil.org/humanities/politics/NatIdent.htm
John Kekes,
"The Incompatibility of Liberalism and Pluralism," American
Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 2 (April, 1992)
Hegel: Master
Servant Dialectic
Kojeve,
Introduction to the Reading of Hegel
Taylor, Hegel
Kymlicka
Will Kymlicka, Liberalism,
Community and Culture
The Rights of
Minority Cultures, edited by Will Kymlicka.
Will Kymlicka=s Homepage:
http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~philform/news14.htm
Kymlicka,
Citizenship, Democracy and Ethnocultural Diversity Newsletter: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~philform/news14.htm
Kymlicka, ABuilding a modern, pluralist, distinct society in
Quebec@: Will Kymlicka's comments on the american debate
about Multiculturalism:
http://www.mri.gouv.qc.ca/la_bibliotheque/willkym_an.html
Margaret Moore
(ed.), National Self-Determination and Secession
Margaret Moore, AThe Limits of Liberal Nationalism," in Brendan
O'Leary and George Schopflin (eds.), Understanding Nationalism
Margaret Moore,
"On National Self-Determination," Political Studies (vol. 45,
no. 5, December 1997).
Margaret
Moore, "Political Liberalism and
Cultural Diversity," Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence
(vol. VIII, no. 2, July 1995), 297-310.
John Tomasi,
"Kymlicka, Liberalism, and Respect for Cultural Minorities," Ethics,
Vol. 105, No. 3 (April, 1995), pp. 580-603.
multiculturalism
& identity politics
Ben Agger, Cultural
Studies as Critical Theory
Larry Blum,
"Philosophy and the Values of a Multicultural Community," in Teaching
Philosophy, Vol. 14, No. 2 (June, 1991),
pp. 127-34.
Campus Wars:
Multiculturalism and The Politics of Difference, ed John Arthur and Amy
Shapiro
Henry Giroux, ACurriculum, multiculturalism and the politics of
identity@, Nassp Bulletin, Dec 1992.
ethnic and cultural
diversity
Philosophical Forum, Vol. IX, Nos. 2-3
(Winter-Spring, 1977-78): "Philosophy and the Black Experience,"
Philosophical Forum, Vol. XXIV, Nos.
1-3 (Fall-Spring, 1992-93): "African-American Perspectives and
Philosophical Traditions,".
Notes on Gender, >>Race,== Ethnicity, as
Sources of >>Identity==," The
Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 87, No. 10 (October, 1990), pp. 493-99
and the commentaries by Lugones and Wartenberg.
Social Theory and the Politics of Identity,
edited by Craig Calhoun
Color Conscious: The Political Morality of
Race, by Amy Gutmann and K. Anthony Appiah
moral conflict and
the plurality of moral values
Bernard Williams,
"Conflicts of Values," Moral Luck, pp. 71-82
Thomas Nagel,
"The Fragmentation of Value," Mortal Questions, pp. 128-41.
Stuart Hampshire,
"Morality and Conflict," Morality and Conflict, pp. 140-70.
Steven Lukes,
"Making Sense of Moral Conflict," Liberalism and the Moral Life,
edited by Nancy L. Rosenblum, pp. 127-42.
John Kekes,
"Pluralism and Conflict in Morality," The Journal of Value Inquiry,
Vol. 26 (1992), pp. 37-50.
James D. Wallace, Moral
Relevance and Moral Conflict
Richard W.
Miller, Moral Differences: Truth,
Justice and Conscience in a World of Conflict
Amy Gutmann and
Dennis Thompson, Democracy and Disagreement