Toward a theory of change: Radical social theory and emancipatory communication
This list really has me geeked. I’m enjoying the reading so far, but it’s tough. I’ve broken this list down – by period and category. I know all the connections – intuit them almost – but this helps make it more evident to those of you outside my brain. Field definition to come…
A. Visions of a liberated society
1. Pre-Marxist utopian visions
√Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. (1754). A discourse on the origin of inequality.
√Durkheim, Emile. (1958). Socialism and Saint-Simon. Trans. Charlotte Sattler. Yellow Springs, Ohio: Antioch Press. (Ch 1, 6, 7, 10)
√Mill, J.S. [1947]. On liberty.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. (1792/1985). A vindication of the rights of woman. London: Penguin Group.
2. The Evolution of Socialist Thought
√Crowder, George. (1991). Classical anarchism: The political thought of Godwin, Proudhon, Bakunin and Kropotkin. (Ch. 1, p. 6-38)
√Dewey, J. (1927). The public and its problems. Denver, CO: Swallow. (Selections)
√Feenberg, A. (1981). Lukacs, Marx and the sources of critical theory. Oxford: Martin Roberston. (Ch. 4 & 5, 59-132)
√Goldman, Emma. (1911). Anarchism; and The tragedy of woman’s emancipation; and Woman suffrage. In Anarchism and other essays.
√Gramsci, Antonio. (1992). Selections from the Prison Notebooks. (“The Intellectuals†& “The study of philosophyâ€). New York: Columbia University Press.
√Guerin, Daniel. (1970). Anarchism: From theory to practice. New York: Monthly Review Press. (9-38)
√Horkheimer, M., & Adorno, T. (1972). Dialectic of enlightenment: Philosophical fragments. (“The concept of Enlightenmentâ€, 3-42
√Lukacs, G. (1971) History and class consciousness: Studies in Marxist dialectics. (“Reification and class consciousnessâ€).
√Luxemburg, Rosa. (1937/1970). Social reform or revolution? In Rosa Luxemburg speaks. (35-91)
√Marcuse, Herbert. (1964). One dimensional man.
√Marx, K., & Engels, F. (??) Communist manifesto.
+Marx, K, & Engels, F. (1970). A Contribution to the Critique of political economy. London: Lawrence & Wishart.
√Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph. [1923] (1969). General idea of the revolution in the 19th century. Trans. John B. Robinson. New York: Haskell House Publishers.
3. Responses: Post-marxism/post-colonialism/feminism/post-modernism
√Barrett, Michele. (1991). The politics of truth: From Marx to Foucault. Cambridge, MA: Polity. (Selections)
√Buechler, S. (2000). Social movements in advanced capitalism. New York: Oxford University Press. (Ch. 1, 3-18; Ch. 3-5, 59-144; Ch. 7, 161-184)
+Dyer-Witheford, N. (1999). Cybermarx: Cycles and circuits of struggle in high-technology capitalism. Selections
√Fanon, Frantz. (1963). The wretched of the earth. New York: Grove Press.
√Foucault, Michel. Power/knowledge: Selected interviews and other writings, 1972-1977. New York: Pantheon Books. (Two Lectures; Truth and power)
√—–. (1994). The subject and power. In P. Rabinow and N. Rose (Eds.) The Essential Foucault. (126-144).
√Fraser, Nancy. (1997). Rethinking the public sphere: A contributing to the critique of actually existing democracy. In Justice interruptus: Critical reflections on the ‘post-socialist’ condition. London: Routledge.
√Freire, Paulo. (1970). Pedagogy of the oppressed. New York: Continuum.
√Hardt, Michael and Negri, Antonio. (2000). Empire. New York: The Penguin Press.(Resistance, 63-96; Dangerous classes, 103-157; Traces of the multitude, 189-228; Part 3, Democracy, 231-358)
√Harvey, David L. (1998). The practical contradictions of Marxism. Critical Sociology, 24(2).
√King, Lawrence P. & Szelenyi, Ivan. (2004). Theories of the new class: Intellectuals and power. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
√McLaren, Peter. (2000). Che Guevera, Paulo Freire, and the pedagogy of revolution. Lanham, MD: Roman & Littlefield.
√Ray, L.J. (1993). Rethinking critical theory: Emancipation in the age of global social movements. London: Sage Publications. (Introduction, Part 1, Conclusion)
B. Implications of emancipatory communication
√Curran, James. (??). Rethinking the media as public sphere. In Dahlgren & Sparks (eds.) Communication and citizenship: Journalism and the public sphere in the new media age.
√Downing, John D .H. (2001). Radical Media: Rebellious communication and social movements. (Ch 2-4, 6, 9, 17 & 23)
√Enzensberger, Hans Magnus. [1970] (2003). Constituents of a theory of the media. In N. Wardrip-Fruin & N. Montfort (Eds.) The new media reader. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
√Garnham, Nicholas. (2000). Emancipation, the media and modernity: Arguments about the media and social theory. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.
√Habermas, Jurgen. Communicative action Vol. 1: Reason and the rationalization of society. (“Intermediate reflections: Social action, purposive activity and communicationâ€, 273-338).
√—– (1989). Structural transformation of the public sphere: An inquiry into a category of bourgeois society. Trans T. Burger. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Ch. 5, 141-180).
√Mattelart, A. (1979). Introduction: For a class analysis of communication. In A. Mattelart & S. Siegelaub (Eds.) Communication and class struggle: Capitalism, imperialism. New York: International General. (p. 23-70).