{"id":52,"date":"2010-07-21T21:22:37","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T01:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teachingutopia.wordpress.com\/?p=52"},"modified":"2012-06-08T16:33:49","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T20:33:49","slug":"literature-and-allied-discourse-christopher-adamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/literature-and-allied-discourse-christopher-adamo\/","title":{"rendered":"Literature and Allied Discourse (Christopher Adamo)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Course Description<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>We examine, to the extent time permits, a trajectory of utopian literature from Plato\u2019s <em>Republic<\/em> to the present.\u00a0 We read these texts through the lens of classic philosophic speculations, past and contemporary, regarding human nature, particularly, our capacity for social cooperation without coercion.\u00a0 Using Freud\u2019s <em>Civilization and Its Discontents<\/em>, I articulate what I will call \u2018Freud\u2019s paradox\u2019 with regard to the foundation and sustainability of a utopian society.\u00a0 Additionally, we employ Kant\u2019s Enlightenment anthropology and philosophy of history as laying the basis for the so-called \u2018blue-print\u2019 utopias of the nineteenth century.\u00a0 We end with the turn to classical twentieth century dystopias and examine possible historical and philosophic reasons for the shift towards anti-utopian and dystopian writing.\u00a0 Throughout, it is borne in mind that the utopian novel is, first and foremost, a literary enterprise, and we ask what social functions the utopian\/ dystopian novel has played and may play in the future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/files\/2010\/04\/literature-and-allied-discourse-christopher-adamo2.pdf\">Click here<\/a> for the full <strong>syllabus<\/strong>; <a href=\"http:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/files\/2010\/04\/literature-and-allied-discourse-reading-schedule-christopher-adamo1.pdf\">click here<\/a> for the course <strong>reading schedule<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Course Description: We examine, to the extent time permits, a trajectory of utopian literature from Plato\u2019s Republic to the present.\u00a0 We read these texts through the lens of classic philosophic speculations, past and contemporary, regarding human nature, particularly, our capacity for social cooperation without coercion.\u00a0 Using Freud\u2019s Civilization and Its Discontents, I articulate what I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syllabi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3lS3Y-Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}