Lecture/Seminar One : World and newspaper history 1900 – 1920 (L13)
13.01: US economic development – railways, robber barons, populism and oil
13.02: Citizen Kane: William Randolph Hearst and the modern newspaper model
13.03: The madness of the state: Prussian militarism and the first world war
13.04: The New Journalism (mark one): Northcliffe, the Daily Mail
13.05: The Daily Mirror and photojournalism in the first world war
13.06: Revolution in Russia and Germany: Bolshevism and colonial revolt
Lecture/Seminar Two: Psychoanalysis, anti-empiricism and irrationality (L14)
14.01: Hegel re-visited: The Phenomenology of Mind
14.02: Anti-empiricism - Functionalist vs Comparative anthropology
14.03: Sigmund Freud (2) – Psychoanalysis and its critics; sexual politics
14.04: Carl Jung - psychological archetypes and the power of symbols
14.05: Wilhelm Reich: Sexuality, mass hysteria and politics
14.06: Germaine Greer, Feminism and Sexual Politics: The Female Eunuch
Lecture/Seminar Three: Structuralism and Hermeneutics: the reality beneath (L15)
15.01: Nietzsche and Frazer revisited: Christianity’s secret war against nobility
15.02: Saussure and the underlying structure of language: langue and parole
15.03: Vladimir Propp and structuralism: The Morphology of the Folktale
15.04: Levi-Strauss – Functionalist anthropology and the vitality of myth
15.05: Post-structuralism, deconstruction and post-modernism in the arts
15.06: Noam Chomsky: neurological aspects of linguistic structure
15.07: Michel Foucault, post-modernism and the social functions of insanity
Lecture/Seminar Four : Economics - The dismal science (L16)
16.01: From utilitarianism to neoclassicism: Jevons and Marshall
16.02: Neoclassical price and value theory: the limited liability enterprise
16.03: VI Lenin – Imperialism and markets; war, collapse and revolution
16.04: JM Keynes (1) German hyperinflation – causes and consequences
16.05: JM Keynes (2) The great depression and The General Theory
16.06: JK Galbraith: economic planning and World War Two
16.07: Macroeconomics, demand management: Samuelson and the MIT system
16.08: Hayek, neo-Conservatism and The Road to Serfdom
16.09: Voodoo Economics – global free trade from Reagan to Obama
Lecture/Seminar Five : Totalitarianism – the end of enlightenment (L17)
17.01: The shock of the new: intellectual reactions to the first world war
17.02: From bolshevism to communism; from communism to stalinism
17.03: The assault on bourgeois decency: from futurism to fascism
17.04: The intellectuals and masses – the new elitism and hatred for democracy
17.05: Triumph of the Will: Hitler and romantic roots of national socialism
17.06: Stalinism: George Orwell’s 1984 and Homage to Catalonia
17.07: Hanna Ardent: Totalitarianism
Lecture/Seminar Six : Existentialism, politics and post-humanist morality (L18)
19.01: The Sickness unto Death: Kirkegaard (1): individualism (VL)
19.02: Beyond psychology: Husserl’s phenomenology (VL)
19.03: Existentialism and literature: Kafka and Borges (VL)
19.04: The mirror of memory: Heidegger’s Being and Time
19.05: The Ascent: collaboration and resistance in occupied Europe.
19.06: JP Sartre: Existentialism is a Humanism (VL)
19.07: Absurdity, Camus and the cult of The Outsider
19.08: Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex
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