課程資訊
課程名稱
 理論與政治
Theory and Politics 
開課學期
 113-1 
授課對象
 文學院  外國語文學系  
授課教師
 李鴻瓊 
課號
 FL3306 
課程識別碼
 102E34400 
班次
  
學分
 1.0 
全/半年
 半年 
必/選修
 必修 
上課時間
 第12,13,14,15,16 週
 
上課地點
  
備註
 本課程以英語授課。密集課程。密集課程。上課日期與時間請詳閱課程大綱。停修截止日：11/1。
總人數上限：50人 
  
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課程概述

This international co-teaching course is a joint initiative between the College of Liberal Arts at National Taiwan University and the Asia Theories Network. The course will be co-taught by 6 instructors: Hung-chiung Li (main instructor at NTU), David Theo Goldberg (Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine, USA), Nobutaka Otobe (乙部延剛) (Graduate School of Law and Politics, Osaka University, Japan), Julia Ng (Department of English and Creative Writing, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK), Pei-Jean Chen (陳佩甄) (Graduate Institute of Taiwanese Literature, National Chengchi University, Taiwan (國立政治大學台灣文學研究所)), and Bregham Dalgliesh (Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo, Japan). Each instructor will give a lecture plus class discussion on a subject under the general topic of “Theory and Politics.” Most (but not all) international instructors will teach online, local instructors on-site, and students are required to attend in person. The subjects to be tackled include: (anti)colonialism and decolonization, sincerity, politics and theory in 20th-century Japan, gender/queer theories and politics, and critique. By selecting these subjects to analyze and reflect on, the course will lead students to ponder on how critical theory, relatively broadly defined, does, conceptualizes, problematizes, and addresses politics in various realms. The course also puts a considerable part of its focus on non-Western, especially East Asian, societies for delineating their different trajectories or practices in relation to theory and politics.

*This is an advanced course of critical theory/discourses. Target students are juniors, seniors, and postgraduates. Freshman students are not suggested to take this course, while interested sophomores should be relatively informed of critical theory/discourses or are advised to do preliminary research on it. 

課程目標
 Course Objectives: (At least 50 Chinese characters or 200 English letters.)
1. To enhance students’ knowledge about critical theory and its engagements with a specific topic (politics);
2. To improve students’ ability to absorb theoretical discourses;
3. To broaden students’ experience and understanding through co-teaching by instructors from various societies;
4. To develop students’ comparative thinking in relation to cultural or social differences. 
課程要求
 Requirements:
1. Attendance on weekends (Sundays);
2. Sufficient English competence for taking academic courses;
3. Basic knowledge of critical theory/discourses. 
預期每週課後學習時數
  
Office Hours
 另約時間 
指定閱讀
 See Schedule. 
參考書目
 References:
Nishitani, Keiji. “My Views on ‘Overcoming Modernity.’” Overcoming Modernity: Cultural Identity in Wartime Japan, edited and translated by Richard Calichman, Columbia UP, 2008, pp. 51-63.
Takeuchi, Yoshimi. “What is Modernity (The Case of Japan and China).” What is Modernity? Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi, edited and translated by Richard Calichman, Columbia UP, 2004, pp. 53-82.

Trilling, Lionel. “I. Sincerity: Its Origin and Rise.” Sincerity and Authenticity, by Trilling, Harvard UP, 1972, pp. 1-25.
Assmann, Aleida. “Authenticity—The Signature of Western Exceptionalism?” Paradoxes of Authenticity: Studies on a Critical Concept, by Assmann, edited by Julia Straub, 2012, pp. 33-50. Transcript.
Koyre, Alexandre. “The Political Function of the Modern Lie.” 1943. Contemporary Jewish Record, no. 8, 1945, pp. 290-300.
Arendt, Hannah. “Truth and Politics.” 1967. The Portable Hannah Arendt, edited by Peter Baehr, Penguin, 2000, pp. 545-75.

Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Vol. I: An Introduction. Translated by Robert Hurley, Pantheon Books, 1978.
Rubin, Gayle. “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality.” The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, edited by Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale, and David M. Halperin, Routledge, 1993, pp. 3-44.
Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Routledge, 1990.
Ding, Naife. “In the Eye of International Feminism: Cold Sex Wars in Taiwan.” Economic & Political Weekly, vol. 50, no. 17, April 25, 2015, pp. 56-62.
Patel, Geeta H., Anjali Arondekar, editors. Area Impossible: The Geopolitics of Queer Studies, special Issue of GLQ, vol. 22, no. 2, 2016.

Deleuze, Gilles, and Felix Guattari. What Is Philosophy? Translated by Hugh Tomlinson and Graham Burchell, Columbia UP, 1991. 
評量方式
(僅供參考)
  
No.
項目
百分比
說明
1. 
 Attendance and Participation 
30% 
  
2. 
 In-Class Activities 
30% 
 group discussion and question-posing 
3. 
 Extracurricular Activity 
10% 
 conference attendance and observation post 
4. 
 One Short Reflection Essay 
30% 
 post on course website 
 
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上課形式
作業繳交方式
考試形式
其他
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課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
第1週
 11/17  Hung-chiung Li (李鴻瓊) (Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (國立台灣大學外文系副教授))

Date: Nov. 17 (8:30-9:00 am; 12:00-12:30 pm)
Subject: Introduction (on-site)
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David Theo Goldberg (Distinguished Professor in Comparative Literature and Anthropology, University of California, Irvine; Director Emeritus, University of California Humanities Research Institute, USA)

Date: Nov. 17 (9 am-12 pm)
Subject: Colonialism, Anticolonialism, and Decolonization
Description: This session will introduce the history of critical theory/discourses in engaging with colonialism and articulating decolonization. Some thinkers and their thoughts will be analyzed and expounded.
Mode: instructor online; class on-site

Assigned Reading:
1. Césaire, Aimé. Discourse on Colonialism. Translated by Joan Pinkham, Monthly Review P, 2000, pp. 7-102. (Including the introduction by Robin D. G. Kelley, “A Poetics of Anticolonialism,” pp. 7-28.)
 
第3週
 12/1  Pei-Jean Chen (陳佩甄) (Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Taiwanese Literature, National Chengchi University, Taiwan (國立政治大學台灣文學研究所助理教授))

Date: Dec. 1 (2-5 pm)
Subject: Gender/Queer Theories and Politics
Description: This course surveys the canonical Gender/Queer Theories through the reception and reflection from East Asian perspective. We will revisit the emergence of Western Gender/Queer Theories since 1980s, and investigate how these theories traveled to East Asia and Taiwan.
Mode: on-site

Assigned Readings:
1. De Lauretis, Teresa. “Queer Theory: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities: An Introduction.” Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, 1991, pp. iii-xviii.
2. Foucault, Michel. “Part 3, Scientia Sexualis.” The History of Sexuality, Vol. I: An Introduction, by Foucault, translated by Robert Hurley, Pantheon Books, 1978, pp. 51-74.
3. Ding, Naifei. “Reticent Poetics, Queer Politics.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, 2005, pp. 30-55.

References:
1. Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Vol. I: An Introduction. Translated by Robert Hurley, Pantheon Books, 1978.
2. Rubin, Gayle. “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality.” The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, edited by Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale, and David M. Halperin, Routledge, 1993, pp. 3-44.
3. Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Routledge, 1990.
4. Ding, Naife. “In the Eye of International Feminism: Cold Sex Wars in Taiwan.” Economic & Political Weekly, vol. 50, no. 17, April 25, 2015, pp. 56-62.
5. Patel, Geeta H., Anjali Arondekar, editors. Area Impossible: The Geopolitics of Queer Studies, special Issue of GLQ, vol. 22, no. 2, 2016.
 
第4週
 12/12  Bregham Dalgliesh (Professor-in-Waiting, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo, Japan)

Date: Dec. 12 (6:30-9:30 pm)
Subject: What is Critique?
Description: Critique is central to modern (Western) philosophy and arguably one of its most successful exports. What does it mean to do or practice critique, and what is its place in the world today (including its relevance in non-Western contexts)?
Mode: on-site

Assigned Readings:
1. Wacquant, Loïc. “Critical Thought as Solvent of Doxa.” Constellations, vol. 11, no. 1, 2004, pp. 97-101.
2. Foucault, Michel. 1980. “Truth and Power: An Interview with Alesandro Fontano and Pasquale Pasquino.” Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977, by Foucault, edited by C. Gordon, translated by C. Gordon et al., Harvester Wheatsheaf, pp. 109-33.

Reference:
1. Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. What Is Philosophy? Translated by Hugh Tomlinson and Graham Burchell, Columbia UP, 1991. 
第5週
   Extracurricular Activity: Conference Attendance

Date: Late Nov. to Mid-Dec.
Subject: Conference Attendance
Description: Every student is required to attend, for at least two hours, a scholarly conference or a scholarly forum that engages with a proximate theme. A simple observation/description (one paragraph or several) of the attendance should be submitted as a post on the course website. 
第2-1週
 11/24  Nobutaka Otobe (乙部延剛) (Professor, Graduate School of Law and Politics, Osaka University, Japan)

Date: Nov. 24 (11 am-2 pm)
Subject: Politics and Theory in Japan in the 20th century
Description: Politics and theoretical reflections have been deeply entangled everywhere throughout the human history. In non-Western worlds, however, further twists were added to this entanglement during the processes of colonization, Westernization, de-colonization, cold-war, etc. My class will address the twisted entanglements in the non-Western theories by taking up the history of theory in Japan during the 20th century.
Mode: instructor online; class on-site

Assigned Readings:
1. Sakai, Naoki. “Modernity and Its Critique: The Problem of Universalism and Particularism.” Translation and Subjectivity: On “Japan” and Cultural Nationalism, by Sakai, Stanford UP, 1997, pp. 153-176, 219-220.

References (Further Readings):
1. Nishitani, Keiji. “My Views on ‘Overcoming Modernity.’” Overcoming Modernity: Cultural Identity in Wartime Japan, edited and translated by Richard Calichman, Columbia UP, 2008, pp. 51-63.
2. Takeuchi, Yoshimi. “What is Modernity (The Case of Japan and China).” What is Modernity? Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi, edited and translated by Richard Calichman, Columbia UP, 2004, pp. 53-82.
 
第2-2週
 11/24  Julia Ng (Reader in Critical Theory, Department of English and Creative Writing; Founding Co-Director, Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK)

Date: Nov. 24 (4-7 pm)
Subject: Sincerity
Description: This seminar will discuss “sincerity” as a political emotion—how it structures feelings and render them communicable as immediate for the public domain, how it has operated in concepts of free will, obligation, conviction, and factuality, whether there are alternatives outside the lexicon established by the European eighteenth century’s invention of the self.
Mode: instructor online; class on-site

Assigned Readings:
1. Derrida, Jacques. “History of the Lie: Prolegomena.” Without Alibi, by Derrida, translated by Peggy Kamuf, Stanford UP, 2002, pp. 28-70.
2. Jullien, François. “Reliability (vs Sincerity).” From Being to Living: A Euro-Chinese Lexicon of Thought, by Jullien, translated by Krzysztof Fijalkowski and Michael Richardson, Sage, 2019, pp. 21-27.

References (Further Readings):
1. Trilling, Lionel. “I. Sincerity: Its Origin and Rise.” Sincerity and Authenticity, by Trilling, Harvard UP, 1972, pp. 1-25.
2. Assmann, Aleida. “Authenticity—The Signature of Western Exceptionalism?” Paradoxes of Authenticity: Studies on a Critical Concept, by Assmann, edited by Julia Straub, 2012, pp. 33-50. Transcript.
3. Koyré, Alexandre. “The Political Function of the Modern Lie.” 1943. Contemporary Jewish Record, no. 8, 1945, pp. 290-300.
4. Arendt, Hannah. “Truth and Politics.” 1967. The Portable Hannah Arendt, edited by Peter Baehr, Penguin, 2000, pp. 545-75.