Introduction

Part A
Assignment:

Georg Simmel, On Individuality and Social Forms

Part B: Begriffsgeschichte

Assignment: Read articles on "identity" and "subjectivity" in encyclopedias and other reference works from the eighteenth century onwards

Part A
Assignment:

David Frisby, Fragments of Modernity

Part B: Nationalism and Ethnicity I
Reading List:

Bausinger, Hermann, Ausländer--Inländer: Arbeitsmigration und kulturelle Identität

Lewis D. Wurgaft, "Identity in World History: A Postmodern Perspective," in History and Theory 34 (1995), pp. 67-85

Bernhard Giesen, ed., Nationale und kulturelle Idnetität

Harm Klueting, ed, Nation, Natinalismus und Nation: Beiträge zur Identität

Jennifer M. Walsh, "The Role of the Inner Enemy in European Self-Definition: Identity, Culture and International Relations Theory," in History of European Ideas 19 (1994), pp. 53-62

Thomas Rathmann, "Nation und Geschichte: Zur Entstehung nationalen Bewußtseins in der frühen Neuzeit," in Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift N.F. 43 (1993), pp. 267-78

Parekh Bhikhu, "Discourses on National Identity," in Political Studies 42 (1994), pp. 492-504

Peter Weichert, Raumbezogenen Identität

Ernest Gellner, Culture, Identity, and Politics

Philippe Joseph Salazar, "Rhetorique et vernaculaire au xviie siècle: Centre l'identité nationale," in History of European Ideas 16 (1993), pp. 377-89

D. Eeckaute-Bardery, "Langue et identité nationale," in History of European Ideas 16 (1993), pp. 167-73

Lawrence Vale, Architecture, Power, and National Identity

Detlev Claussen, "Entzauberte Welt, mißglückte Befreiung: Zur Kritik des nationalen Identätskults in modernen Gesellschaften," in Neue Rundschau 105,4 (1994), pp. 38-57

S.N. Eisenstadt and Bernhard Giesen, "The Construction of Collective Identity," in Archives européennes de sociologie 36 (1995), pp. 72-102

Victoria Goddard, et al., The Anthropology of Europe: Identity and Boundaries in Conflict

Clorinda Donato, "Eighteenth-Centtury Encyclopedias and National Identity," in History of European Ideas 16 (1993), pp. 959-65

Gernot Heiss, "Pan-Germans, Better Germans, Austrians: Austrian Historians on National Identity for the First to the Second Republic," in German Studies Review 16 (1993), pp. 411-34

Harry Ritter, "Austria and the Struggle for German Identity," in German Studies Review (1992), pp. 111-29

Margaret Grander, et al., "Österreich und seine deutsche Identität. Bemerkungen zu Harry Ritters Aufsatz `Austria and the Struggle for German Identity'," in German Studies Review 16 (1993), pp. 515-20

Felix Kreissler, ed, L'autriche 1867-1938: Naissance d'une identité culturelle

Maria Höhn, "Frau im Haus und Girl im Spiegel: The Interregnum Period of 1945-1949 and the Question of German Identity," in Central European History 26 (1993), pp. 57-90

Hannu Salmi, "Die Herrlichkeit des deutschen Namens"...Die schriftstellerische und politische Tätigkeit Richard Wagners as Gestalter nationaler Identität

Michael Venner, Nationale Identität: Die neue Rechte und die Grauzone zwischen Konservatismus und Rechtsextremismus

Berndt Jürgen Wendt, ed., Von schwierigen Zusammenwachsen der Deutschen: Nationale Identität und Nationalismus im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert

Mary Fulbrook, "Aspects of Society and Identity in the New Germany," in Daedalus 123 (1994), pp. 211-34

D.G. Bond, German History and German Identity: Uwe Johnson's Jahrestage

Heide Fehrenbach, Cinema in Democratizing Germany: Reconstructing National Identity after Hitler

Louis Dumont, "Are Cultures Living Beings?" German Identity in Interaction," in Man, n.s. 21 (1986), pp. 587-604.

Tina Campt, "Afro-German Cultural Identity and the Politics of Positionality: Contests and Contexts in teh Formation of German Ethnic Identity," in New German Critique 58 (1993), pp. 109-26

Charles Maier, The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity

Fernand Braudel, Identity of France, 2 vols.

Caroline Ford, Creating the Nation in Provincial France

Winnie Lem, "Identity and History: Class and Regional Consciousness in Rural Languedoc," in Journal of Historical Sociology 8 (1995), pp. 198-220

Caroline C. Ford, "Which Nation? Language, Identity and Republican Politics in Post-Revolutionary France," in History of European Ideas 17 (1993), pp. 31-46

Herman Lebovics, True France: The Wars over Cultural Identity 1900-1945

Raymond Mentzer, Blood and Belief: Family Survival and Confessional Identity among the Provincial Huguenot Nobility

Margaret A. Majumdar, "Extra-European National Minorities in France and the Concept of European Identity," in History of European Ideas 19 (1994), pp. 647-54

B.J. Moore-Gilbert, "English and Its Others: Nationalism, Identity, and Literary Studies in Post-War Britain," in History of European Ideas 19 (1994), pp. 611-18

Berndt Ostendorf, "Identitätsstiftenden Geschichte: Religion und Öffentlichkeit in den USA," in Merkur 49 (1995), pp. 205-16

Gerald Sider, Lumbee Indian History: Race, Ethnicity and Indian Identity in the Southern U.S.

Part A
Assignment:

Ulrich Beck, Risk Society

Part B: Nationalism and Ethnicity II

Reading List:

Dagmar C. G. Lorenz and Gabriele Weinberger, eds, Insiders and Outsiders: Jewish and Gentile Culture in Germany and Austria

Christoph Reinprecht, Zurückgekehrt. Identität und Bruch in der Biogrpahie oesterreichischer Juden (Wien, 1992)

George Mosse, Confronting the Nation: Jewish and Western Nationalism

Kenneth Jacobson, Embattled Selves

Yale French Studies, nr. 85 (1994), "Discourses of Jewish Identity in Twentieth-Century France

Walter Grab and Julius H. Schoeps, eds., Juden in der Weimarer Republik

Doris Bensimon, La Population juive en France

Doran Kiesel and Ernst Karpf, ed., Identität und Erinnerung: Zur Bedeutung der Shoa für die israelische Gesellschaft

Marion Kaplan, The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family and Identity in Imperial Germany

Michael A. Mayer, The Origins of the Modern Jew: Jewish Identity and European Culture in Germany 1749-1824

Robert S. Wistreich, Between Redemption and Perdition: Essays on Modern Anti-Semitism and Jewish Identity
 
 

Part A:
Assignment:

Anthony Giddens, Modernity and Self-Identity

Part B: Bourgeois subjectivity

Reading List:

Paul Smith, Discerning the Subject

Thomas C. Heller, Morton Sosna, and David E. Wellbery, Reconstructing Individualism. Autonomy, Individuality and the Self in Western Thought

Peter Lunt, Mass Consumption and Personal Identity

Bernhard Spies, Politische Kritik, psychologische Hermeneutik, aesthetischer Blick: Die Entwicklung bürgerlicher Subjektivität im Roman des 18. Jahrhunderts

Rudolf zur Lippe, Bürgerliche Subjektivität: Autonomie als Selbstzerstörung

Thomas Mueller, Rhetorik u. bürgerliche Identität: Studien zur Rolle der Psychologie in der Frühaufklärung

Doris Kaufmann, "Aufklärung, bürgerliche Selbsterfahrung und die `Erfindung' der Psychiatrie in Deutschland, 1770-1850" (Habilitationsschrift, n.d.)

Basil Bernstein, Class, Codes and Control

Mitchell Greenberg, Subjectivity and Subjugation in Seventeenth-Century Drama and Prose: The Family Romance of French Classicism
 

Part A
Assignment:

Paul Gilroy, Black Atlantic

Part B: Biography/autobiography

Reading List:

Françoise Lionnet, Autobiographical voices: Race, Gender, Self Portraiture

Sidonie Smith, Subjectivity, Identity and the Body: Women's Autobiographical Practices

Margaret R. Somers, "The Narrative Constitution of Identity: A Relational and Network Approach," in Theory and Society 23 (1994), pp. 605-49

Shari Binstock, ed., The Private Self: Theory and Practice of Women's Autobiography

Della Brodzki, ed., Life/Lines: Theorizing Women's Autobiography

K.D. Müller, Autobiographie und Roman

Kathleen Barry, "Biography and the Search for Women's Subjectivity," in Women's Studies International Forum 12 (1989), pp. 561-77

Françoise Lionnet, Autobiographical Voices

Karl Heinz Bohrer, Der romantische Brief: Die Entstehung aesthetischer Subjektivität

Georges Benrekassa, Les sujets de l'écriture

Jerome Hamilton Buckley, The Turning Key: Autobiography and the Subjective Impulse since 1800

Mary Jean Corbett, Representing Femininity: Middle-Class Subjectivity in Victorian and Edwardian Women's Autobiographies

Tereza Burmeister, "In Search of the Lost Woman-Time: Cross-Biographical Studies on the Construction of (Post-)Modern Gender-Identity," in History of European Ideas 19 (1994), pp. 837-44

Regenia Gagnier, Subjectivity. A History of Self-Representation in Britain 1832-1920

Ralf Konerman, Lebendige Spiegel. Die Metapher des Subjekts

Barbara Saunders, Contemporary German Autobiography: Literary Approaches to the Problem of Identity

Part A
Assignment:

Judith Butler, Gender Trouble

Part B: Gender

Reading List:

Luce Iragaray, "Any Theory of the `Subject' Has Always Been Appropriated by the `Masculine'," in Speculum of the Other Woman, pp. 133-46

Jeffrey Weeks, Against Nature: Essays on History, Sexuality, and Identity

Ludmilla Jordanova, Sexual Visions: Images of Gender in Science and Medicine between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Patricia Mann, Micro-Politics: Agency in a Post Feminist Era

Christine Castelain-Meunier, Les hommes aujourd'hui: virilité et identité

Michael Herzfeld, The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village

Marion Smiley, "Feminist Theory and the Question of Identity," in Women and Politics 13 (1993), pp. 91-122

Peter Middleton, The Inward Gaze: Masculinity and Subjectivity in Modern Culture

Renate Becker, Inszenierung des Weiblichen: Die literarische Darstellung weiblicher Subjektivirtät in der westdeutschen Frauenliteratur der siebziger u. achtziger Jahre

Annelise Manque, L'identité masculine en crise au tournant du siècle

Eleni Varikos, "Gender, Experience and Subjectivity: The Tilly-Scott Disagreement," in New Left Review 211 (1995), pp. 89-104

Lesley Caust, "Community, Autonomy and Justice: The Gender Politics of Identity and Relationship," in History of European Ideas 17 (1993), pp. 639-50

Bernd Widdig, Männerbunde und Massen: Zur Krise männliche Identität in der Literatur der Moderne

Kathy E. Ferguson, The Man Question: Visons of Subjectivity in Feminist theory

Kaja Silverman, Male Subjectivity at the Margins

Leslie Adelson, Making Bodies, Making History: Feminism and German Identity

Judy Giles, Women, Identity and Private Life in Britain, 1900-50

Theo van der Meer, "The Persecution of Sodomites in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam: Changing Perceptions of Sodomy," in Journal of Homosexulaity
 
 

Part A
Assignment:

Seyla Benhabib, Situating the Self

Part B: Early Modern

Reading List:

N.H. Keeble, ed., The Cultural Identity of Seventeenth-Century Woman: A Reader

Stephen Greenblatt, Renaissance Self-Fashioning

H. Perry Chapman, Rembrandt's Self-Portraits: A Study in Seventeenth-Century Identity

Alois Hahn and Volker Kapp, Selbstthematisierung und Selbstzeugnis

B. Diefendorf and Carla Hesse, Cultural Identity in Early Modern Europe 1500-1800

Francis Barker, The Tremulous Private Body

Joshua Mitchell, Not By Reason Alone: Religion, History and Identity in Early Modern Political Thought

Sarah Beckwith, Christ's Body: Identity, Culture, and Society in Late Medieval Writings

Mitchell Greenberg, Subjectivity and Subjugation in seventeenth-century Drama and Prose: The Family Romance of French Classicism
 
 

Part A:

Assignment:

Paul Ricoeur, Oneself as Another

Part B: Modernity and Postmodernity

Reading List:

Jacques LeRider, Modernity and Crisis of Identity: Culture and Society in fin-de-siècle Vienna

Scott Lash and Jonathan Friedman, Modernity and Identity

Kenneth Gergen, The Saturated Self

Carolyn J. Dean, The Self and its Pleasures: Bataille, Lacan, and the History of the Decentered

Joachim Werner, Aesthetik und Identität: Ein Beitrag zur Kritik der aesthetischen Bewältigung neuzeitlicher Bewusstseinkriesen

Käte Meyer-Drawe, Illusionen von Autonomie: Diesseits von Ohnmacht und Allmacht des Ich

Fred Davis, Fashion, Culture, and Identity

Jonathan Rée, "Subjectivity in the Twentieth Century," in New Literary History 26 (1995), pp. 205-17

Jonah Goldstein and Jeremy Rayner, "The Politics of Identity in Late Modern Society," in Theory and Society 23 (1994), pp. 367-84

Ulrich Fülleborn and Manfred Engel, Das neuzeitliche Ich in der Literatur des 18. u, 20. Jahrhunderts: Zur Dilektik der Moderne

Frank B. Farrell, Subjectivity, Realism, and Postmodernism: The Recovery of the World

Delia Judovitz, Subjectivity and Representation in Descartes: The Origins of Modernity

Douglas Kellner, Media Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity and Politics between the Modern and Postmodern

Part A
Assignment*

Marilyn Strathern, After Nature

Part B: Theoretical and philosophical issues

Reading List:

Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self

Anita Jacobson-Widding, Identity: Personal and Socio-Cultural

Werner Beierwaltes, Identität und Differenz

Manfred Frank, et al., eds., Die Frage nach dem Subjekt

Anthony Elliott, Social Theory and Psychoanalysis in Transition: Self and Society from Freud to Kristeva

Walter Davis, Inwardness and Existence: Subjectivity in/and Hegel, Heidegger, Marx, and Freud

Michel Henry, The Genealogy of Psychoanalysis

Georges Benrekasse, Fables de personne: pour une histoire de la subjectivité

Hans Ebeling, Neue Subjektivität: Die Selbstbehauptung der Vernunft

Joachim Hubbert, Nach der "ersten Person" fragen: Subjektivität in Kontext moderner Philosophie

Hermann Schmitz, Die entfremdete Subjektivität: von fichte zu Hegel

Rüdiger Bubner, "Wie wichtig ist Subjektivität: Über einige Selbstverständlichkeiten und mögliche Mißverständnisse der Gegenwart," in Merkur 49 (1995), pp. 229-39

Jonathan Friedman, "The Past in the Future: History and the Politics of Identity," in American Anthropologist 94 (1992), pp. 837-859

Gilles Deleuze, Empiricism and Subjectivity: An Essay on Hume's Theory of Human Nature

Francis Jacques, Difference and Subjectivity: Dialogue and Personal Identity

Alain Renaut, L'ère de l'individu: contribution à une histoire de la subjectivité

Alain Badiou, Theorie de sujet

Rudolf-Peter Hägler, Kritik der neuen Essentialismus: logisch-philosophische Untersuchungen über Identität, Modalität, und Referenz

Christian Hauser, Selbstbewusstsein und personale Identität: Position und Aporien ihrer vorkantischen Geschichte: Locke, Leibnitz, Hume und Tetens

Hiram Caton, The Origins of Subjectivity: An Essay on Descartes

Roger S. Gottlieb, History and Subjectivity: The Transformation of Marxist Theory

Robert M. Strozier, Saussure, Derrida, and the Metaphysics of Subjectivity

Roy F. Baumeister, Identity: Cultural Change and the Struggle for Self

Erik H. Erikson, Identity and the Life Cycle

Anthony P. Cohen, Self Consciousness: An alternative Anthropology of Identity

Christopher Fox, Locke and the Scriblerans: Identity and Consciousness in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain

Frederick Neuhouser, Fichte's Theory of Subjectivity

Manfred Sommer, Identität im übergang: Kant

Dalia Judovitz, "Introduction" and "From Self to Subject: Montaigne to Descartes," in Subjectivity and Representation in Descartes, pp. 1-38.

Robert Woodrow Langbaum, The Mysteries of Identity

Claude Lévi-Strauss, L'identité

Raymond Fogelson, "Person, Self, and Identity: Some Anthropological Retrospects, Circumspects, and Prospects," in Benjamin Lee, ed., Psychosocial Theories of the Self, pp. 67-109