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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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