Reading List

Feel free to seek out readings not on this list. I will probably add further items to it as the module progresses.

Items will either be available through the library; on the internet (I’ve provided links to things that are generally available); or in the module dropbox (for those things not available elsewhere). The dropbox link is available in MOLE.

If you have trouble getting hold of something – TELL ME – I’ll get hold of it for you.

If any of the links are broken – TELL ME – I’ll try and fix them. They were working last time I checked.
INTRODUCTION
Husserl

• Bell, David. 1990. Husserl. London: Routledge. [Particularly parts III and IV.]
• Moran, Dermot. 2000. Introduction to Phenomenology. London: Routledge. [Particularly section on Husserl.]
• Smith, David Woodruff, McIntyre, Ronald. 1982. Husserl and Intentionality: A Study of Mind, Meaning, and Language. Dordrecht and Boston: D. Reidel Publishing Co. [Particularly chapter III, section 1.2.]

MERLEAU-PONTY
Core texts

• Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. 1962. Phenomenology of Perception. London: Routledge. [This link takes you to the Colin Smith translation. There is a newer translation by Don Landes, which is very good. Feel free to read whichever translation you want.]
• Romdenh-Romluc, Komarine. 2010. Routledge GuideBook to Merleau-Ponty and Phenomenology of Perception. London: Routledge. [DROPBOX]

Introduction to Merleau-Ponty’s work

• Routledge GuideBook, chapter 1
• Carman, Taylor. 2008. Merleau-Ponty. London: Routledge. [Chapter 1.]
• Carman, Taylor. 2009. Merleau-Ponty and the mystery of perception. Philosophy Compass 4 (4), pp. 630-8.
• Heinämaa, Sara. 2013. Merleau-Ponty: a phenomenological philosophy of mind and body. In A. Bailey (ed.) Key Thinkers in the Philosophy of Mind. London: Continuum [DROPBOX]
• Morris, Katherine. 2012. Starting with Merleau-Ponty. London: Continuum, chapter 1 [DROPBOX]
• Romdenh-Romluc, Komarine. 2011. Merleau-Ponty. In S. Luft and S. Overgaard (eds.) Routledge Companion to Phenomenology. London: Routledge, pp. 103-12.

Merleau-Ponty’s transcendental-phenomenological reduction

• Phenomenology of Perception, preface.
• Routledge GuideBook, chapter 1.
• Heinämaa, Sara. 1999. Merleau-Ponty’s modification of phenomenology: cognition, passion, and philosophy. Synthese 118, pp. 49-68.
• Smith, Joel. 2005. Merleau-Ponty and the phenomenological reduction. Inquiry 48 (6), pp. 553—71.

CLEARING THE WAY

Traditional prejudices

• Phenomenology of Perception, INTRODUCTION Traditional prejudices and the return to phenomena.
• Routledge GuideBook, chapter 2.
• Carman, Taylor. 2005. Sensation, judgement, and the phenomenal field. In T. Carman and M. Hansen (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty. Cambridge: CUP, pp. 50—73.
• Hammond, M., Howarth, J., Keat, R. 1991. Understanding Phenomenology. Oxford: Blackwells, chapter 5 [DROPBOX]
• Köhler, Wolfgang. 1971. On unnoticed sensations and errors of judgement. In Mary Henle (ed.) The Selected Papers of Wolfgang Köhler. New York: Liverwright, pp. 13-39. [DROPBOX]
• Morris, Katherine. 2012. Starting with Merleau-Ponty. London: Continuum, chapter 2 [DROPBOX]

A NEW CONCEPTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS

• Carman, Taylor. 2008. Merleau-Ponty. London: Routledge. [Chapters 2 and 3.]
• Hammond, M., Howarth, J., Keat, R. 1991. Understanding Phenomenology. Oxford: Blackwells. [Section ‘The body as subject’.]
• Kelly, Sean. 2002. Merleau-Ponty on the body. Ratio 15 (4), pp. 376—91.

Absorbed coping

The Dreyfus papers all cover very similar ground, so there is no need to read all of them.

• Phenomenology of Perception, PART I The body, sections 1-4.
• Routledge GuideBook, chapter 3.
• Dreyfus, Hubert. 2000. A Merleau-Pontyian critique of Husserl’s and Searle’s representationalist accounts of action. In Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 100 (3), pp. 287-302.
• Dreyfus, Hubert, Wakefield, Jerome. 1991. Intentionality and the phenomenology of action. In E. Lepore and R. Van Gulick (eds.) 1991. John Searle and his Critics. Oxford: Blackwells, pp. 259-70. [DROPBOX]
• Dreyfus Hubert, Dreyfus S. 1999. The challenge of Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Embodiment for Cognitive Science. In G. Weiss and H. F. Haber (eds.) Perspectives on Embodiment: The Intersections of Nature and Culture. New York: Routledge, pp. 103-20.
• Marotta, J. J., Behrmann, M. 2004. Patient Schn: has Goldstein and Gelb’s case withstood the test of time?. Neuropsychologia 42: 633–638.

Reckoning with the possible

• Marotta, J. J., Behrmann, M. 2004. Patient Schn: has Goldstein and Gelb’s case withstood the test of time?. Neuropsychologia 42: 633–638.
• Morris, K. 2012. Starting with Merleau-Ponty. London: Continuum. [Chapter 3].
• Romdenh-Romluc, Komarine. 2007. Merleau-Ponty and the power to reckon with the possible. In Thomas Baldwin (ed.) Reading Merleau-Ponty. London: Routledge, pp. 44-58.
• Young, Iris Marion. 1980. Throwing like a girl. Human Studies 3 (2): 137-156. Reprinted in her 2005 On Female Body Experience – ‘Throwing Like a Girl’ and Other Essays. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 27—45.

Bodily knowledge

• Annas, Julia. 2012. Practical expertise. In J. Bengson and M. A. Moffett (eds.) Knowing How: Essays on Knowledge, Mind, and Action. Oxford: OUP, pp. 101—112.
• Noë, Alva. 2005. Against intellectualism. Analysis, 64 pp. 278—90.

Motor intentionality

• Hudin, J. 2006. Motor intentionality and its primordiality. Inquiry 49 (6), pp. 573-90.
• Jensen, Rasmus T. 2009. Motor intentionality and the case of Schneider. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. 8 (3), pp. 371-88.
• Mooney, Tim. 2011. Plasticity, motor intentionality, and concrete movement in Merleau-Ponty. Continental Philosophy Review, 44 (4), pp. 359-81.
• Webber, Jon. 2002. Doing without representation: coping with Dreyfus. Philosophical Explorations 5(1), pp. 82—8.

The World

• Phenomenology of Perception, Part II The world as perceived, sections 1-3.
• Routledge GuideBook, chapter 4.
• Berendzen, J. C. 2017. Picking out the “right” colour: perceptual normatively in Merleau-Ponty. In G. Hoskins and J. C. Berendzen (eds.) Living Existentialism: Essays in Honour of Thomas W. Busch. Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications, pp. 61-77.
• Carman, T. 2008. Merleau-Ponty. London: Routledge, ch. 3
• Hammond, M., Howarth, J., Keat, R. 1991. Understanding Phenomenology. Oxford: Blackwells. [Section ‘The perception of objects’.]
• Kelly, Sean. 2005. Seeing things in Merleau-Ponty. In T. Carman and M. B. Hansen (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 74—110.
• Morris, Katherine. 2012. Starting with Merleau-Ponty. London: Continuum. [Chapter 4].
• Romdenh-Romluc, Komarine. 2009. Merleau-Ponty’s account of hallucination. European Journal of Philosophy 17, pp. 76—90.

Other People

• Phenomenology of Perception, Part II The world as perceived, section 4.
• Routledge GuideBook, chapter 5.
• Carman, Taylor. 2008. Merleau-Ponty. London: Routledge, ch. 4
• Hammond, M., Howarth, J., Keat, R. 1991. Understanding Phenomenology. Oxford: Blackwells, ‘The recognition of other selves’.
• McGinn, Marie. 1998. The real problem of others: Cavell, Merleau-Ponty and Wittgenstein on scepticism about other minds. European Journal of Philosophy, 6, pp. 45—58
• Morris, Katherine. 2012. Starting with Merleau-Ponty. London: Continuum. [Chapter 5].

FRANTZ FANON
Core texts

• Fanon, Frantz. 2008. Black Skin, White Masks. Pluto Press.
• Gordon, Lewis. 2015. What Fanon Said. London: Hurst & Company.

Introduction to Fanon’s work

• Gordon, Lewis. Encyclopaedia Entry.

Recognition

Stanford Encyclopaedia entry on recognition.

• Chari, Anita. 2004. Exceeding recognition. Sartre Studies International, 10 (2): 110-122. [DROPBOX]
• Bulhan, Hussein Abdilahi. 1985. Frantz Fanon and the Psychology of Oppression. New York: Plenum Press, ch. 6, pp. 101-117. [DROPBOX]
• Kruks, Sonia. 1996. Fanon, Sartre, and identity politics. In Lewis R. Gordon, T. Denean Shirley-Whiting, and Reneé T. White (eds.) Fanon: A Critical Reader. Oxford: Blackwells, pp. 122-133.
• Taylor, Charles. 1994. The politics of recognition. In C. Taylor and (eds.) Multiculturalism. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
• Villet, Charles. 2011. Hegel and Fanon on the question of mutual recognition: a comparative analysis. The Journal of Pan African Studies, 4 (7): 39-51.

Language and identity

• Beek, Wouter. [DATE UNKNOWN]. Linguistic Relativism. Available online here.
• Flores-Rodríguez, Daynalí. 2012. Language, power and resistance: re-reading Fanon in a trans-Caribbean context. In The Black Scholar 42 (3-4): 27-35. [DROPBOX]
• Mazrui, Alamin. 1993. Language and the quest for liberation in Africa: the legacy of Frantz Fanon. In Third World Quarterly 14 (2): 351-363.

Interracial relationships – denial of blackness and the distorted mirror

• Bergner, Gwen. 1995. Who is that masked woman? Or, the role of gender in Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks. In PMLA, 110 (1), Special Topic: Colonialism and the Postcolonial Condition, 75-88.
• Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean. 1996. Anti-black femininity and mixed-race identity: engaging Fanon to reread Capécia. In Lewis R. Gordon, T. Denean Shirley-Whiting, and Reneé T. White (eds.) Fanon: A Critical Reader. Oxford: Blackwells, pp. 155-162.
• Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean. 1999. Fanon and Capécia. In Anthony C. Alessandrini (ed.) Frantz Fanon: Critical Perspectives. London: Routledge, pp. 57-74. Also in her 1998 Frantz Fanon: Conflicts and Feminisms. Boston: Rowman & Littlefield. [DROPBOX]
• Srinivasan, Amia. 2018. Does anyone have the right to sex? London Review of Books 40 (6): 5-10.

The fact of blackness (the lived experience of blackness)

• Drabinski, John. 2012. Affect and revolution: on Baldwin and Fanon. In PhaenEx 7 (2): 124-158.
• Schmitt, Richard. 1996. Racism and objectification: reflections on themes from Fanon. In Lewis R. Gordon, T. Denean Shirley-Whiting, and Reneé T. White (eds.) Fanon: A Critical Reader. Oxford: Blackwells, pp. 35-50.
• Sullivan, Shannon. 2004. Ethical slippages, shattered horizons, and the zebra striping of the unconscious: Fanon on social, bodily, and psychical space. Philosophy and Geography, 7 (1): 9-24.
• Webber, Nicholas. 2012. Subjective elasticity, the ‘zone of nonbeing’ and Fanon’s new humanism in Black Skin, White Masks. Postcolonial Text, 7 (4): 1-15.
• Weate, Jeremy. 2001. Fanon, Merleau-Ponty and the difference of phenomenology. In R. Bernasconi (ed.) Race. Oxford: Blackwells, pp. 169-183.
• Whitney, Shiloh. The affective forces of racialization: affects and body schemas in Fanon and Lorde. Unpublished manuscript.

Double consciousness

• Henry, Paget. 2005. Africana phenomenology: its philosophical implications. In CLR James Journal, 11 (1): 79-112.
• Sullivan, Shannon. 2004. Ethical slippages, shattered horizons, and the zebra striping of the unconscious: Fanon on social, bodily, and psychical space. Philosophy and Geography, 7 (1): 9-24.

Négritude as salvation

• Bernasconi, Robert. 2002. The assumption of négritude: Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, and the vicious circle of racial politics. In Parallax 8 (2): 69-83.
• Jules-Rosette, Bennetta. 2007. Jean-Paul Sartre and the philosophy of négritude: race, self, and society. In Theory and Society 36 (3): 265-285.
• Nielsen, Cynthia. 2013. Frantz Fanon and the Négritude movement: how strategic essentialism subverts Manichean binaries. In Callaloo 36 (2): 343-352.
• Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. 1988. In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics. London: Routledge, chapter 4.
• Stanford Encyclopaedia entry on Négritude.

Fanon’s humanism – the possibility of an equal community of people

• Gilroy, Paul. 2010. Fanon and Améry: theory, torture and the prospect of humanism. In Theory, Culture & Society 27 (7-8): 16-32.
• Nielsen, Cynthia. 2011. Resistance through re-narration: Fanon on deconstructing racialized subjectivities. In African identities 9 (4): 363-385.
• Pithouse, Richard. 2003. ‘That the tool never possess the man’: taking Fanon’s humanism seriously. In Politikon 30 (1): 107-131.

Fanon’s conception of race

All of the above topics are relevant to Fanon’s conception of race. But here are three pieces that develop further, some of the ideas explored above.

• Pile, Steve. 2010. Skin, race and space: the clash of bodily schemas in Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks and Nella Larsen’s Passing. Cultural Geographies 18 (1): 25-41. [DROPBOX]
• Saldhana, Arun. 2010. Skin, affect, aggregation: Guatterian variations on Fanon. Environment and Planning A 42: 2410-2427. [DROPBOX]
• Saldhana, Arun. 2006. Reontologising race: the machine geography of the phenotype. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 24: 9-24. [DROPBOX]

 

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