Thursday, October 1, 2026

Fall '26 Tentative Reading Plan

Listed by week number of term followed by reading:

 

3. Durkheim, The Rules of Sociological Method (1895), Ch. 3 and Ch. 5 selections [~23 pages below]
     - Ch. 3 pages: 97-104 (plus optional: 86-87, 94-97)
     - Ch. 5 pages: 119-125, 127-129, 134-138, 142-144
     - Recommended: Durkheim, "Two Laws of Penal Evolution" (1900) [~25 pages]

4. Marx, Capital, volume 1 (1867), pp. 781-794 (Section 3 of Ch. 25 on capital accumulation: surplus population and the reserve army of the unemployed)
    - Cohen (on Marx), Karl Marx's Theory of History, pp. 278-280, 293-296
    - Marx, Capital, other selections TBD

5. Nietzsche, GM (1887), II.12 (and other sections of GM to be announced)

 

6. No meeting this week [or else meet without CK]

Then, with some methodological questions in view, we start on Foucault:


7. Foucault, Punitive Society (1973), Lecture one (3 Jan) and Lecture thirteen (28 Mar)

8. Foucault, D&P (1975), I.1, plus other selections

9. No meeting due to holiday

10. Foucault, "SMBD" (1976), selections on civil war from Lectures 1-3 (or all three lectures in turn)

11 (tbd). Foucault, HSv1/WtK/VdS (1976), selections on method, read IV.1 (Objective) and IV. 2 (Method); focus will be on postulates on power (p. 94ff.) and methodological rules (p. 98ff.), plus remind me to distribute a table tracking Foucault's transforming conception of the power across writings in the 1970s.


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