Syllabus (spring 2020)
Literature for the course is a mix of book chapters, (online) articles, and excerpts from internet. Some of the material will be available in canvas, and is clearly marked so in the syllabus. The following books must be acquired (from a library or bookstore):
Arendt, Hannah (1998) [1958]. The Human Condition, Chicago IL: Chicago Press
Mouffe, Chantal (2005). On the Political, London: Routledge (160 s)
Keller, Catherine (2018). Political Theology of the Earth: Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.
Kaplan, Jeffrey (1997). Radical Religion in America. Millenarian Movements from the Far Right to the Children of Noah, Syracuse: Syracuse University press, 60 s
Teitelbaum, Benjamin R. (2017). Lions of the North. Sounds of the New Radical Nationalism, Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Democracy, the assembly and democratic theory (350 pp.)
Grayling, A. C. (2017) Democracy and Its Crisis, OneWorld Publications, p. 1-48 (canvas)
Tocqueville, Alexis de (2004) [1834], Democracy in America, New York: Bantam Books
Selections from volume 1: chap 12, 17,18 (canvas)
Mouffe, Chantal (2015), On the Political, London: Routledge, p. 7-151 (book)
Mouffes, Chantal (2002) Which Public Sphere for a Democratic Society? Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, Vol 99, June 2002, p. 55-65 https://doi.org/10.3167/004058102782485448
Arendt, Hannah (1998) [1958], The Human Condition, Chicago Press, p. 7-78; 175-247 (book)
Butler, Judith (2015), Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly, Harvard University Press, Intro + p. 66-98 (canvas)
Butler, Judith (2016), “We, the People”: Thoughts on Freedom of Assembly, What is a People? eds. Alain Badiou et al. New York: Columbia University Press, p. 49-64 (canvas)
Thoreau, Henry David (1849) Essay on Civil Disobedience,
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper2/thoreau/civil.html
Arendt, Hannah (169), Civil Disobedience, Crisis of the Republic, New York: Harvest Book, p. 69-102 https://monoskop.org/images/7/70/Arendt_Hannah_Crises_of_the_Republic.pdf
Biesta, Gert J. J. (2006) Education and the Democratic Person. Beyond Learning. Democratic Education for a Human Future, Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, pp.117-145
- Fascism and the ideologies of extreme/radical Right (180 pp)
Carter, Elisabeth (2018) Right-wing extremism/radicalism: reconstructing the concept, Journal of Political Ideologies, 23:2, p, 157-182, https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2018.1451227
Griffin, Roger (2000) Between Metapolitics and Apoliteia: The Nouvelle Droite's Strategy for Conserving the Fascist Vision in the “Interregnum.” Modern & Contemporary France 8 (1), p. 35-53 https://doi.org/10.1080/096394800113349
Wolff, Elisabetta Cassina (2014), Apoliteia and Tradition in Julius Evola as Reaction to Nihilism, European Review, Vol 22, No 2, p 258-273 (canvas)
Susan Sontag (1975), Fascinating Fascism, The New York Review of Books, Febr. 6,
http://marcuse.faculty.history.ucsb.edu/classes/33d/33dTexts/SontagFascinFascism75.htm
Teitelbaum, Benjamin R. (2017), Lions of the North. Sounds of the New Radical Nationalism, Oxford University Press, p. 1-59; p. 121-173 (book)
- Reading the extreme/radical Right (30 s) (selections handed out)
? Anders Breivik, selections from 2083: A European Declaration of Independence
? Brenton Tarrant, selections from The Great Replacement
? Julius Evola, selections from The Revolt Against the Modern World
? Alain de Benoist, selections from On Being a Pagan
? Greg Johnson, The Christian Question in White Nationalism
? Alexander Dugin, A Guideline for the Populist Movement
- Gender and the extreme/radical Right (80 pp)
Connell, R. W. (2005), The Social organization of Masculinity (chap 3), Masculinities, UC Berkeley Press, pp. 67-86 (canvas)
Ferber, Abby L. and Michael S. Kimmel (2008), The Gendered Face of Terrorism, Sociology Compass 2(3): 870-887. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1751-9020.2008.00096.x
Miller-Idriss, Cynthia (2017), Soldier, Sailor, Rebel, Rulebraker: Masculinity and the Body in the German Far Right, Gender and Education, 29 (2), pp.199-215. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09540253.2016.1274381?tab=permissions&scroll=top
Kimmel, Michael (2007), Racism as Adolescent Male Rite of Passage: Ex-Nazis in Scandinavia, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Volume 36, issue 2, pp. 202-218. https://doi.org/10.1177/0891241606298825
Mulinari, Diana el al. (2019) Doing Racism, Performing Femininity. Women in the Sweden Democrats. Gender and Far Right Politics in Europe, eds Michaela K?tting et.al, Palgrave-Macmillan,pp. 13-27 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311768390_Doing_Racism_Performing_Femininity. Women_in_the_Sweden_Democrats
- Racial religion versus Political theology (300 pp)
Carl Schmitt (2005), Political theology. Four chapters on the concept of sovereignty, University of Chicago Press, p. 36-52 (canvas)
Kaplan, Jeffrey (1997). Radical Religion in America. Millenarian Movements from the Far Right to the Children of Noah, Syracuse: Syracuse University press (chap 1+2) (book)
White, Ethan Doyle (2017) Northern Gods for Northern Folk: Racial Identity and Right-wing Ideology among Britain’s Folkish Heathens, Journal of Religion in Europe, vol 10, issue 3, https://doi.org/10.1163/18748929-01003001
Robbins, Jeffrey W. (2011) The Theopolitics of Democracy. Radical Democracy and Political Theology, Columbia University Press, s. 155-179 (canvas)
Keller, Catherine (2018). Political Theology of the Earth: Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. 150 pp (book)
- Ritual theory, ritual memorial (120 p)
Grimes, Ronald L. ( 2000 ), Ritual, Guide to the Study of Religion, eds. Willi Braun and Russell T. McCutcheon, T & T Clark, pp. 259-269 https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/5701239?q&versionId=39700813
Turner, Victor 1979, Frame, Flow and Reflection: Ritual and Drama as Public Liminality, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, Vol 6. No 4 (Dec 1979), pp. 465-499 https://www.jstor.org/stable/30233219?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Delattre, Roland A. (1978), Ritual Resourcefulness and Cultural Pluralism. Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 61, No 3 (Fall 1978), s. 281-301, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41178085
Alexander, Jeffrey C. (2006), From the depths of despair: performance, counterperformance, and “September 11”. Social Performance. Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmantics and Ritual, Cambridge University Press, s. 91-114, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9558.2004.00205.x
Young, James E. (1992) The Counter-Monument: Memory against Itself in Germany Today, Critical Inquiry, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Winter, 1992), s. 267-296, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1343784
- 22 juli 2011. Breivik’s terrorism. Ritualized responses (110 s)
Jurgensmeyer, Mark (2017) Anders Behring Breivik, Defender of Christendom (s.20-23), “Theater of Terror” (s. 149-181), Terror in the Mind of God. The global rise of religious violence, University of California Press (canvas)
Gardell, Mattias (2014) Crusader Dreams: Oslo 22/7, Islamophobia, and the Quest for a Monocultural Europe, Terrorism and Political Violence, 26:129-155 (Canvas)
Salomonsen, Jone (2015), Graced Life After All? Terrorism and Theology on July 22, 2011. Dialog, Volume 54, Issue 3, September 2015, 249–259 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/dial.12186
D?ving, Cora Alexa (2017) Homeland ritualised: an analysis of written messages placed at temporary memorials after the terrorist attacks on 22 July 2011 in Norway, Mortality. Promoting the interdisciplinary study of death and dying (16 s)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13576275.2017.1346597?scroll=top&needAccess=true
H?eg, Ida Marie (2015), Silent actions – emotion and mass mourning rituals after the terrorist attacks in Norway on 22 July 2011. Mortality. Promoting the interdisciplinary study of death and dying, Volume 20 (3), s. 197-214 (17 s) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13576275.2015.1012488
Salomonsen, Jone (2020), The ritual powers of the weak. Democracy and public responses to the 22 July 2011 terrorist attacks on Norway, Reassembling Democracy, eds. Graham Harvey, Michael Houseman, Sarah Pike, Jone Salomonsen, London: Bloomington (canvas)