Course convenor
András Müllner
Course content
This introductory course explores various theoretical approaches to identity, ranging from psychology to linguistics, philosophy, cultural theory and literature.
Indicative reading
Franz Kafka: Vor dem Gesetz, internet: http://www.textlog.de/32064.html; in English: Before the Law
Marx – Engels: Die deutsche Ideologie, internet: http://www.mlwerke.de/me/me03/me03_009.htm;
in English: The German Ideology, internet: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/
Ferdinand de Saussure: Cours de linguistique général; in English: Course in General Linguistics
Sigmund Freud: A Note on the Unconscious in Psycho-Analysis
Stuart Hall: The Question of Cultural Identity.” Hall, D. Held, and T. McGrew (eds.): Modernity and its Future, Cambridge: Polity, 1992, 274-316.
Michel Fouacult: The Subject and the Power, in Hubert L. Dreyfus – Paul Rabinow: Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics, Chicago: Chicago UP, 1988, 208-226.
Edward Said: Between Worlds, London Review of Books, Vol. 20, No. 9, 7. May, 1998.
Joseph Conrad: Amy Foster, internet: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/495