ALIENATION, ESTRANGEMENT and SUBCULTURES

HUMANITIES 346 - ALIENATION, ESTRANGEMENT
and SUBCULTURES

[Course Objectives] [Required Books]

COURSE OBJECTIVES

To survey the elements and historical implications of alienation, estrangement and the rise of subcultures as they exist in the multi-cultural, pluralistic 20th century civilization.
To isolate, through readings in Philosophy, Chicano and Afro-American history and literature some expressions of alienation and estrangement and roots of a sub-cultural identity as they may apply to the individual in the United States of America.

To find some indices for measuring personal identification in the mass society or to find the sources of personal estrangement, alienation and "cult" (sub-cultural) identity. This will be done through reading, careful reflection and the formulation of a critique of the expressions of alienation, estrangement, and societally-viewed deviancy.

REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS

PHILOSOPHY SECTION:

From Alienation, by Richard Schacht, New York: a Doubleday Anchor Book. (optional)
The following three essays will be included with course syllabus:

1) Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (pp. 38-68)

2) Marx's Man and Labor (pp. 81-122)

3) Erich Fromm (pp. 124-147)

CHICANO STUDIES SECTION:

Occupied America, by Rodolofo Acuna, New York: Canfield Press, a dept. of Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. 1972
North From Mexico, by Carey McWilliams, New York: Greenwood Press, 1968

HISTORY SECTION:

The Souls of Black Folk, by W.E.B. Dubois, Crest
Black Skin, White Masks, by F. Fanon, Vantage, Random House
New Black Voices: An Anthology of Afro-American Literature, by Abraham Chapman, New American Library
The Aliens Among Us, by James White, Ballantine/Random House (optional)

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