This seminar considers in depth the important work of the literary historian, Klaus Theweleit, Male Fantasies (2 vols.). It deals with issues having to do with the modernization of violence; images of women as sister, mother, nurse, whore; the male body; military culture; pollution; mass culture, race and selfhood. There will be three papers required for the course. The first will be a five-page reflection on the material and discussions from the first two sessions and will be due in my box in the history department office (6th floor Bunche Hall) before 5 PM, Friday, January 30. The second will be a five-page reflection on the reading and discussion from sessions 3, 4 and 5 and 6, due before 5 PM, February 20--in my history department mail box. The final paper should be an independent research paper 12-15 pages in length, due in my box, Monday, March 23, by 5 PM. Late work will be marked down. There will be no incompletes.

Session 1. Jan. 13. Introduction. The film Marat/Sade.

Session 2. Jan 20. Men and women and modernity.
Theweleit, Male Fantasies, vol. 1, pp. 1-63.
de Sade, "Dialogue between a Priest and a Daying Man," pp. 163-175
Horkheimer and Adorno, "Juliette of Enlightenment and Morality," in Dialectic of Enlightenment, pp. 81-119.
Joseph de Maistre, selections from St. Petersburg Dialogues

Session 3. Jan. 27. Images of Women.
Theweleit, vol. 1, pp. 63-228.
Selections from Otto Weininger, Sex and Character

Session 4. Feb. 3. Bodies and floods.
Theweleit, vol. 1, pp. 229-300
Zygmunt Bauman, "A Catalogue of Post-Modern Fears," and "The Body as Task," in Life in Fragments, pp. 105-125, 163-178

Session 5. Feb. 10. Middle classes and reterritorialization
Theweleit, vol. 1, pp. 300-363
Pierre Bourdieu, "The Field of Cultural Production: Or the Economic World Reversed," in The Field of Cultural Production, pp. 29-73
Pierre Bourdieu, "The Conquest of Autonomy," in The Rules of Art, pp. 47-112

Session 6. Feb. 17. New morality/ incest/ pollution/ dirt
Theweleit, vol. 1, pp. 363-438
Mary Douglas, "Introduction," "Ritual Uncleanness," and "Secular Defilement," in Purity and Danger, pp. 1-40
Mary Douglas, "Pollution," in Explicit Meanings, pp. 47-59
George Bataille, "The Enigma of Incest," in Eroticism, pp. 197-220

Session 7. Feb. 24. Mass/ culture/ race/ people
Theweleit, vol 2, "Forward," pp. 3-142
Essay by Peter Loewenberg on "Mass Psychology of Fascism"
Bauman, "Racism, Anti-Racism, Moral Progress," "A Century of Camps," "Anti-Semitism Re-Assessed," in Life in Fragments, pp. 179-222.

Session 8. March 3. Soldiers and the body
Theweleit, vol. 2, pp. 143-251
Andrew Hewitt, "Modernization of the Theater of Power," in Fascist Modernism, pp. 161-194
Bauman, "Violence, Postmodern," in Life in Fragments, pp. 139-162

Session 9. (March 10) Fascism/ white terror/ homosexuality
Theweleit, vol. 2, pp. 252-346
George Bataille, "Transgression," "Murder, Hunting, and War," in Eroticism, pp. 63-80
Bauman, "Broken Lives, Broken Strategies," in Life in Fragments, pp. 72-104
Dan Diner, "Historical Understanding and Counterrationality," in Saul Friedlander, Probing the Limits of Representation, pp. 128-182.

Session 10. (March 17) Conclusion
Theweleit, vol. 2, pp. 347-423
Bauman, "Morality without Ethics," in Life in Fragments, pp. 10-43
Horkheimer and Adorno, "The Culture Industry," in Dialectic of Enlightenment
Bataille, "De Sade's Sovereign Mann," "De Sade and the Normal Man," in Eroticism, pp. 164-196