Spring 2013 Philosophy of Culture Course Reading List

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• Baudrillard, Jean. 1981. Chapter Three: Fetishism and Ideology: The Semiological Reduction. in For Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign Jean Baudrillard, 88-102. St. Louis, Missouri: Telos Press.
• Benjamin, Walter. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility.
• Bondanella, Peter. 2001. Italian Cinema. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture, Zygmunt West Rebecca Baranski. 215-43. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
• Bull, Ann Cento. 2001. Social and political cultures in Italy from 1860 to the present day. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture, Zygmunt West Rebecca Baranski. 35-63. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
• Crocini-Windland, Lita. 2011. Chapters 1-3: Introduction; Learning, Identity, Duration and the Virtual; Siena and The Palio -- War and State Machine. Festivals, affect, and identity; a Deleuzian apprenticeship in central Italian communities Lita Crociani-Windland. London: Anthem Press, 2011. 1-65.
• Bicycle Thief (Ladri di biciclette) . 1948. Vittorio de Seca. Vittorio de Seca. Italy.
• Dennett, Daniel. 2011. The Evolution of Culture. Culture: Leading scientists explore societies, art, power, and technology, Editor John Brockman. 1-27. New York: Harper.
• Diamond, Jared. 1992. Chapter 10: Agriculture's Mixed Blessing. The Third Chimpanzee Jared Diamond, 180-91. New York: Harper.
• ________. 1992. Chapter 11: Why Do We Smoke, Drink, and Use Dangerous Drugs? The Third Chimpanzee Jared Diamond, 192-204. New York: Harper.
• ________. 1992. Chapter 3: The Evolution of Human Sexuality. The Third Chimpanzee Jared Diamond, 67-84. New York: Harper.
• ________. 2005. Prologue: Yali's Question and Chapter 3: Collision at Cajamarca. Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond, 13-32, 67-81. New York: W.W. Norton &.
• ________. 2011. Why Do Some Societies Make Disastrous Decisions? in Culture: Leading scientists explore societies, art, power, and technology, Editor John Brockman. 27-42. New York: Harper.
• Eco, Umberto. 2012. Inventing the Enemy. in Inventing the Enemy Umberto Eco, 1-17. Boston: Houghton MIfflin Harcourt.
• Eno, Brian. 2011. A Big Theory of Culture. Culture: Leading scientists explore societies, art, power, and technology, Editor John Brockman. 57-71. New York: Harper.
• Erickson, Paul A. and Liam Murphy. 1998. Chapters 2 and 3: The Early Twentieth Century; The Later Twentieth Century. in A History of Anthropological Theory Paul A. Erickson and Liam Murphy, 73-149. Ontario: Broadview Press.
• Freud, Sigmund. 1961. Civilization and Its Discontents, James Strachey. 11-95. New York: Norton & Co.
• Galbraith, John Kenneth. 2000. The Dependence Effect. The Consumer Society, Editors Juliet B Schor and Douglas B Holt. 20-6. New York: The New Press.
• Geertz, Clifford. 1973. Chapter 1: Thick Description: Toward and Interpretive Theory of Culture. The Interpretation of Cultures Clifford Geertz, 3-30. New York: Basic Books.
• Gramsci, Antonio. 1988. An Antonio Gramsci Reader: selectied writings, 1916-1935. New York: Schocken Books.
• Hebdige, Dick. 2000. Object as Image: The Italian Scooter Cycle. The Consumer Society, Editors Juliet B Schor and Douglas B Holt. 117-55. New York: The New Press.
• Marx, Karl. 2000. The Fetishism of Commodity and Its Secret. in The Consumer Society, Editors Juliet B Schor and Douglas B Holt. 331-43. New York: The New Press.
• Muraro, Luisa. 2007. Toward A Symbolic of Sexual Difference. Contemporary Italian Philosophy, editors Silvia Benso and Brian Schroeder. 211-26. Albany, New York: SUNY.
• Nanda, Serena and Richard Warms. 2007. Chapter Three: Doing Cultural Anthropology. in Cultural Anthropology Serena Nanda and Richard Warms, 58-84Thompson/Wadsworth.
• Sosis, Richard. March 2004-30 April 2004. The Adaptive Value of Religious Ritual. American Scientist 92: 166-72.
• Ward, David. 2001. Intellectuals, culture and power in modern Italy. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture, Zygmunt West Rebecca Baranski. 81-97. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
• Wilson, E. O. 2012. The Social Conquest of Earth. New York: Norton.
• Wood, Sharon and Joseph Farrell. 2001. Other voices: contesting the status quo. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture, Zygmunt West Rebecca Baranski. 131-49. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.