Reading List

The lecture schedule together with readings for each session is here. Use the reading list below to research the topics that interest you.

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 Blackboard.

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.] [DROPBOX]
• 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.

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

Worries with the Schneider case

• 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.

Thought

• Phenomenology of Perception, Part I The body, sections 1-4, and 6. Part III Being-for-itself and being-in-the-world, section 1.
• Routledge GuideBook, chapter 7.
• Clark, A., Chalmers, D. 1998. The extended mind. Analysis 58, pp. 10—23.
• Morris, K. 2012. Starting with Merleau-Ponty. London: Continuum, chapter 3.
• Rietveld, E. 2008. Situated normativity: the normative aspect of embodied cognition in unreflective action. Mind 117 (468), pp. 973—1001.

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].

Freedom (Merleau-Ponty)

• Phenomenology of Perception, Part III Being-for-itself and being-in-itself, section 3.
• Compton, J. 1982. Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and human freedom. The Journal of Philosophy, 10 pp. 577—88.
• Hammond, M., Howarth, J., Keat, R. 1991. Understanding Phenomenology. Oxford: Blackwells, ‘Freedom and its limits’.
• Wrathall, M. 2005. Reasons, motives and causes. In T. Carman and M. Hansen (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty. Cambridge: CUP, pp. 111—28.
• Webber, Jon. 2018. Rethinking Existentialism. Oxford: OUP, ch. 3 ‘Freedom and the origin of reasons’, pp. 39-56 [draft in DROPBOX].

Freedom (Sartre)

• Grelland, H. H. 2006. The case for Sartrean freedom. Sartre Studies International 12 (1): 18-32.
• Jones, Peter. 2015. Sartre’s concept of freedom(s). Sartre Studies International 21 (2): 86-96.
• Smith, T., Eshleman, M. 2015. A critique of Freedom as a Value. Sartre Studies International 21 (2): 108-117.
• Webber, Jon. 2018. Rethinking Existentialism. Oxford: OUP, ch. 3 ‘Freedom and the origin of reasons’, pp. 39-56 [draft in DROPBOX].

FRANTZ FANON
Core texts

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

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.
• Ogungbure, Adebayo. 2018. Dialectics of oppression: Fanon’s anticolonial critique of Hegelian dialectics. Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies 12 (7): 216-230. [DROPBOX]
• Taylor, Charles. 1994. The politics of recognition. In C. Taylor and (eds.) Multiculturalism. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
• Texeira, Mariana. 2018. Master-slave dialectics (in the colonies). Krisis 2.
• 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.

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.

Violence and revolution

• Ogungbure, Adebayo. 2018. Dialectics of oppression: Fanon’s anticolonial critique of Hegelian dialectics. Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies 12 (7): 216-230. [DROPBOX]

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]

Psychiatry and pathology

• Bulhan, Hussein Abdilahi. 1985. Frantz Fanon and the Psychology of Oppression. New York: Plenum Press, chapters 10 and 11 [DROPBOX in ‘Complete Books’].
• Gibson, Nigel, and Beneduce, Roberto. 2018. What Fanon still teaches us about mental illness in post-colonial societies. The Conversation.
• Gibson, Nigel, and Beneduce, Roberto. 2017. Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics. New York: Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd., chapters 3, 5, and 9 (chapter 9 is a harrowing read) [DROPBOX].
• Khalfa, Jean. 2015. Fanon and psychiatry. Nottingham French Studies 54 (1): 52-71. [DROPBOX]