各位老师：学习、研究马克思主义原理、原著，是世界性的现象。以下提供的是美国杜克大学Michael Hardt（迈克尔·哈特）为本科生开设的选修课Marxism and Society（马克思主义与社会）的教学大纲。从中我们可以了解到西方高校教师是怎样组织教学、讨论和测验、是怎样严格要求员工的，相信这些对我们加强和改进思想政治理论课的教学，会有一些启发作用。迈克尔·哈特是西方著名马克思主义理论家，有一段时间微信上、网络上传播的“美国高校怎样讲授‘马克思主义基本原理’的文章”，就是指哈特先生开设的这门马克思主义经典著作导读课程。

Marxism and Society: Spring 2015

Lit 380, CA 203, Edu 239, Soc 339, PolSci 371

Monday and Wednesday, 11:45am to 1:00pm

107 Friedl Building

Michael Hardt (hardt@duke.edu)

Office: 101F Friedl Building, East Campus

Office hours: Mondays 10:00-11:00 and Wednesdays 1:30-2:30

Teaching Assistants:

Jacob Soule<jacob.soule@duke.edu>

Carolyn Laubender<carolyn.laubender@duke.edu>

Course Goals

The basic goal of the course is to help students acquire a clear understanding of the central concepts of Marx’s thought, such as alienation, capital, communism, and surplus value.  The exams will focus on these concepts.  A second goal is for students to recognize and evaluate the ways in which Marx’s concepts play a central role in different scholarly disciplines, such as Marxist cultural theory, Marxist history, or Marxist anthropology.  Third, the course should give students basic familiarity with the historical and intellectual context from which Marx’s thought emerged, including the history of European philosophy, politics, and economics, as well as European colonialism and capitalist development.  Finally, I hope that students will be able to situate Marxist theory in relation to a series of other contemporary theoretical paradigms with which they are already familiar, such as theories of race, gender, sexuality, and ecology.

Course Schedule

7 Jan – Introduction

The Young Marx

12 Jan – Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto, Part 1, “Bourgeois and Proletarians.” 

14 Jan – Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto, Parts 2, 3, and 4.

19 Jan – NO CLASS, MLK DAY

21 Jan – Marx, “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts” in Early Writings, pp. 279-334.

26 Jan – Marx, “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts” in Early Writings, pp. 334-375.

28 Jan – Marx, “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts” in Early Writings, pp. 375-400.

2 Feb – Marx, “Concerning Feurbach” and “Preface” in Early Writings, pp. 421-428.

4 Feb – To be determined

8 Feb – Review sessions: times and location to be announced

9 Feb – First Exam

Capital and Exploitation

11 Feb – Marx, Capital, pp. 89-103 and 125-153.

16 Feb – Marx, Capital, pp. 154-209.

18 Feb – Jameson, “Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture” (Sakai resources).

23 Feb – Marx, Capital, pp. 247-257, 270-306, and 320-329.

25 Feb – Marx, Capital, pp. 429-454, 544-564, and 675-682.

2 Mar – E. P. Thompson, “Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism” (Sakai resources and at http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~salaff/Thompson.pdf)

4 Mar – Jonathan Crary, 24/7, chapters 1 and 2, pp. 1-60 (Sakai resources)

SPRING BREAK

16 Mar – Louis Althusser, “Ideology and State Ideological Apparatuses” (Sakai resources), pp. 1-32.

18 Mar – Louis Althusser, “Ideology and State Ideological Apparatuses,” pp. 33-60.

       22 Mar – Review sessions: times and location to be announced

23 Mar – Second Exam

The History of Class Struggle

25 Mar – Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire, pp. 7-72.

30 Mar – Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire, pp. 73-135

1 Apr – Marx, Civil War in France, pp. 36-95.

6 Apr – Marx, Capital, pp. 873-904.

8 Apr – Marx, Capital, pp. 905-940.

13 Apr – Arundhati Roy, “The Greater Common Good” ().

Contemporary Issues

15 Apr – Readings to be announced

20 Apr – Readings to be announced

22 Apr – Final class

       Review sessions: (date, time, and location to be announced)

Tuesday 28 April, 2pm to 5pm: Final exam.

Exams and Grades

A study guide with a list of concepts and topics will be distributed a week before each exam.  Students should bring to the exam a list with a quote from the texts for each concept or topic.  Students can refer to their own notes but not to the books during the exam.  Students can also bring prepared answers to the exam.

The first exam will each count 20%, the second 30%, and the final exam 40% of the total course grade.  The final exam will be comprehensive of all the material in the course.  If a student will be absent on the day of an exam, she or he must contact Michael Hardt at latest the day before the exam to make other arrangements.

Attendance and participation in class discussions will count 10% of total course grade.  More than four absences will result in a lowered final grade.

Books for the course are available at the Duke Textbook Store.

Most of Marx’s writings can also be found on-line at http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/.

Required books

Marx, Capital, vol. 1 (Penguin/Vintage) ISBN: 0140445684

Marx, Civil War in France (International Publishers) ISBN 0717806669

Marx/Engels, Communist Manifesto (Oxford UP) ISBN 0192834371

Marx, Early Writings (Penguin/Vintage) ISBN 0140445749

Marx, Eighteenth Brumaire (International Publishers) ISBN 0717800563