Libertarian Municipalism 101: A Free Course

Course Description

This is a free short course on libertarian municipalism. It covers its different aspects, including its philosophy, economics, politics, and ecological dimensions.

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1. Critical Thinking Skills

1. Why Your Imagination Isn’t as Free as You Think
2. Why Everything You Know About Truth and Lies is a "Violent Hierarchy"
3. Your Values Are a Hallucination

2.Tracing the Evolution of Literary Theory and Criticism

• a. Plato to Plotinus

Psychoanalytical Criticism & Theory

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Course Objectives

This course is pivoted on the following major objectives:

1. To introduce the students to the history and evolution of literary theory
2. To enable them to develop a deeper understanding of how different theories may be blended to create different theoretical frameworks for analyzing different texts
3. To be able to offer critiques, not only of the literary texts but also of the theories under discussion
4. To provide preliminary training to students so that they may be able to engage in independent theorizations, should they pursue higher degrees in the field

Suggested Readings

• Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths & Helen Tiffin, Eds. The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. NY: Routledge, 1995.
• Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths & Helen Tiffin. Key Concepts in Postcolonial Studies. NY: Routledge, 1998.
• Beauvoir, Simone de. The Second Sex. 1949. Trans. Constance Borde & Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. NY: Random House, 2009.
• Bloom, Harold et al. Deconstruction and Criticism. (1979) NY: The Continuum Publishing Company, 2004.
• Bhabha, Homi K.. The Location of Culture. London & New York: Routledge, 1994. Pdf.
• Brannigan, John. New Historicism and Cultural Materialism. NY: 1998.
• Brooks, Cleanth. Understanding Fiction. New Jersey: Pearson, 1998.
• Brooks, Cleanth. The Well Thought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry. NY: Harcourt, 1956.
• Castle, Gregory. The Blackwell Guide to Literary Theory. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007.
• Culler, Jonathan. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. NY: Oxford University Press, 2000.
• Derrida, Jacques. “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences”. Writing and Différance. Trans. Alan Bass. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.
• Eagleton, Mary, Ed. A Concise Companion to Feminist Theory (Concise Companions to Literature and Culture). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003.
• Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
• Eagleton, Terry. Making Meanings with Texts: Selected Essays. NY: Reed-Elsevier, 2005.
• Hamilton, Paul. Historicism. NY: Routledge, 1996.
• Rosenblatt, Louise M.. Literature as Exploration. NY: Noble, 1996.
• Williams, Patrick and Laura Chrisman, Eds. Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader. NY: Columbia University Press, 1994.

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