NJII_7314 Sexuality and Economy (Another story of modernization)

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2014
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Zdeněk Mareček, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Zdeněk Mareček, Ph.D.
Department of German, Scandinavian and Netherland Studies – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of German, Scandinavian and Netherland Studies – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with. The course will be held by PD Dr. phil. habil. Katja Kauer Universität Freiburg / Université de Fribourg as a blockseminar in the first and second week of the semester.von The classes re on monday, tuesday and thursday at 11.00 in the Begegnungszentrum Jana Uhra 12.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The issue of the course Sexuality and Economy (Another story of modernization) is to figure out by literary example if the sociological argument about modernity is also obvious for us from our perspective of literary science. Will the literary text analysis tell the same story of modernization and economical organization of desire like a sociological investigation would do?
Syllabus
  • Modernization is usually announced as a process that freed people’s minds from superstition, from religious belief, from gender inequality and from birth-right and class rigidity. These civilizational achievements were based on rationalization. The development of modern men (and women) to subjects, who are guided by rational consideration and scientific beliefs, does not imply that modern subjects have attained authentic freedom. Also in terms of love modern subjects are shaped by social relations, institutions and – this is a sociological argument – by rational economic considerations. In her book Why love hurts the famous researcher Eva Illouz argues that during the process of modernization love became a mere commodity, that circulates in a marketplace of unequal actors. Women have to face thick barriers in finding an affectionate relationship, because the spectrum of their choices is limited by patriarchal gender order. At our first meeting we will try to adapt some of these inspiring sociological arguments for literary research. The seminar tutor will present some literary examples (from 1800 until now) to exemplify the sociological argument. We will use critical discourse analysis and gender studies to examine the connection between sexuality and economy that is written in literary texts.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Eva Illouz: Warum Liebe weh tut. Eine soziologische Erklärung. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2011; Dies.: Die neue Liebesordnung: Frauen, Männer und Shades of Grey. Suhrkamp Berlin 2013.
  • Eric Achermann: Worte und Werte. Geld und Sprache bei Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Johann Georg Hamann und Adam Müller. (Frühe Neuzeit, Band 32). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1997
  • Christina von Braun: Der Preis des Geldes. Eine Kulturgeschichte. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2012.
  • Niklas Luhmann Liebe als Passion. Zur Codierung von Intimität. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2003 (7. Aufl., 1. Aufl. 1982); Ders.: Liebe. Eine Übung. Hrsg. von André Kieserling. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2008.
  • Katja Kauer: Banaler und Dämonischer Sex in der Literatur um 1900 und um 2000. Voneinander Besitz ergreifen oder einfach kopulieren. Hamburg 2007.
  • Daniel Fulda: Schau-Spiele des Geldes. Die Komödie und die Entstehung der Marktgesellschaft von Shakespeare bis Lessing. Tübingen 2005
  • Ariel Levy: Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture. Free Press New York 2005.
  • C. Hakim : Erotisches Kapital: das Geheimnis erfolgreicher Menschen. Campus, Frankfurt am Main [u.a.] 2011.
Teaching methods
Extracts of literary texts will be read and analyzed together. The seminar tutor will provide these texts at the beginning of the course.
Assessment methods
A test at the end of the course.
Language of instruction
German
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught: in blocks.
General note: vyucuje D Dr. phil. habil. Katja Kauer Universität Freiburg.
Teacher's information
http://lettres.unifr.ch/fr/langues-litteratures/germanistik/personen/kauer.html
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