Class Syllabus

The class meets at NYU and Columbia in alternate weeks, beginning at 4 pm sharp at NYU on September 5th.

Part I | II | III

 

PART I: INTRODUCTION

 

5. Sept. -- Introduction to the course

 

12. Sept. -- The Historicity of Modern Time

  • Reinhart Koselleck, "Neuzeit": Remarks on the Semantics of the Modern Concepts of Movement," Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time (MIT Press, 1985), pp. 231-266
  • Jurgen Habermas, "Modernity's Consciousness of Time and Its Need for
  • Self-Reassurance," The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (MIT Press, 1987) pp. 1-22
  • Stephen Kern, "The Nature of Time," The Culture of Time and Space (Harvard, 1983), pp. 10-35
  • David Harvey, "The Experience of Space and Time," The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change(Blackwell, 1989), pp. 201-39, 260-283

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PART II. TIMES OF CAPITALISM

 

19. Sept. -- Coeval modernities

  • Harry Harootunian, Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan (Princeton, 2000),pp. 1-221. ON ORDER at bookstores

 

26. Sept. -- Sociologies of Work Time

  • Helga Nowotny, Time: The Modern and Postmodern Experience (Polity Press, 1994), pp. 102-131
  • Barbara Adam, Timewatch: The Social Analysis of Time (Polity, 1995), pp. 84-106
  • Selections from "Salaryman" discourse, trans. Kimberley Gould, in The Origins of the Salaryman (MA thesis, Columbia, 1990) pp.II,1-124

 

3. Oct. -- Uneven Capital/Timeless Culture

 

  • Harry Harootunian, Overcome by Modernity, pp. 222- 414

 

10. Oct. -- Fantasizing Folk Time

  • Gerald Figal, Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan (Duke, 2000) ON ORDER at book- stores

17. Oct. -- Narratives of Asynchronicity

 

  • Nagatsuka Takashi, The Soil: A Portrait of Rural Life in Meiji Japan (1910),trans. Ann Waswo (California, 1989) ON ORDER
  • Tokuda Shusei, Rough Living (1915), trans. Richard Torrance (Hawaii, 2001) ON ORDER

 

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PART III NATION-TIMES

 

24. Oct. -- The Nationalization of Time

 

  • Etienne Balibar, "The Nation Form:History and Ideology," in Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein, eds., Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities (Verso, 1991), pp.86-106.
  • Thongchai Winichakul, "Geo-body and History," in Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation (Hawaii, 1994), pp. 140 -174.
  • Carol Gluck, "Re-presenter Meiji," in Jean-Jacques Tschudin and Claude Hamon, La nation en marche: etudes sur le Japon imperial de Meiji (Philippe Picquier, 1999), pp. 9-40 (English original)
  • Rebecca Karl, Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of Twentieth Century (Duke, forthcoming),pp.

 

31. Oct. Postcolonial Times

  • Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe (Princeton, 2000), pp. 3-23, 42-50, 62-96
  • Manu Goswami, The Production of India: Colonialism, Nationalism and Territorial Nativism, 1870-1920, dissertation ms., Introduction, Chs. 1, 7, and Conclusion

 

7. Nov. Narrating the Nation

  • Paul Ricoeur, "Between Lived Time and Universal Time: Historical Time," and "The Reality of the Past," in Time and Narrative, (University of Chicago, 1988), vol. 3, pp. 104- 26, 142-56.
  • Georg Lukacs, "Social and Historical Conditions for the Rise of the Historical Novel" in The Historical Novel
  • (1937) (Beacon, 1962), pp. 19-29.
  • Christopher Hill, National History and the World of Nations: Writing Japan, France, the United States, 1870-1900, dissertation ms., Introduction and Ch. 4.

 

14. Nov. Family history/National Narrative

  • Shimazaki Toson, Before the Dawn (1932-36) trans. William Naff (Hawaii, 1987). ON ORDER at Labyrinth ONLY [112th betw. B'way & Amsterdam], hardcover at ppr price.

 

21. Nov. Colonial Times

  • Johannes Fabian, Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object (Columbia, 1983), pp. 21-35, 52-69, 143- 66.
  • Alan Christy, "Making Imperial Subjects in Okinawa," Positions 1, no. 3 (Winter 1993), pp. 607-39; also in Tani Barlow, ed., Formations of Colonial Modernity in East Asia (Duke, 1997)
  • Chungmoo Choi, "The Discourse of Decolonization and Popular Memory: South Korea," Positions 1:1 (Spring 1993), pp.77-102.

 

28. Nov. Tradition-time

 

  • Okakura Kakuzo (Tenshin), The Book of Tea (1906) (Kodansha, 1999) ON ORDER at bookstores
  • Yanagita Kunio, The Legends of T'no (T'no monogatari, 1910), tr. Ronald Morse (Japan Foundation, 1975), in coursepack

5. Dec. Time and History/writing: Summary

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