Episode 1

 

Who knows what will make the final cut, but we’ve engaged these works so far:

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Alva Noë, The Entanglement: How Philosophy and Art Make Us What We Are

--- Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature

Richard Sennett, The Craftsman

Hegel, Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics

--- Phenomenology of Spirit

John Dewey, Art as Experience

Fischer, Ernst. The Necessity of Art

The Creativity Issue.” Philosophy Now: A Magazine of Ideas, no. 153.

The Philosophy of Creativity: New Essays, Paul, Elliot Samuel, and Scott Barry Kaufman, editors. .“

Vico, Giambattista, The New Science

Zizek, Slavoj. Violence

Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition

Faulkner, William. Absalom, Absalom!

--- Go Down, Moses

--- Light in August

Wright, Richard. Native Son

Murray, Albert. The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy.

Crawford, Matthew B. Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work

Heidegger, Martin. “The Origin of the Work of Art.”  from Poetry, Language, Thought.

Honneth, Axel, et al. Reification: A New Look at an Old Idea

Marx, Capital: Volume I.

Collins, Randall. Violence

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These may be included in future episodes based on what we’ve shot and what we see ahead:

 

 

Baldwin, James: Collected Essays (LOA #98)

Berger, John. Portraits: John Berger on Artists.

Berry, Wendell. What Are People For?: Essays.

---. The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry.

Danto, Arthur C. After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History.

Ellison, Ralph. The Collected Essays of. Modern Library Paperback Edition, 2003.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Self Reliance

Fanon, Franz. Black Skins, White Masks.

--- The Wretched of the Earth. Grove Press,

Fisher, Mark. Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures.

Gramsci, Antionio. The Gramsci Reader

Heidegger, Being and Time

Hartman, Saidiya V., Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social

Upheaval

Sartre, Jean-Paul. Existentialism and Human Emotions

Schiller, Friedrich.  Aesthetical Letters and Essays

Striking Iron and the Mande Blacksmiths- Tom Joyce, Patrick McNaughton, and others.

Stoic Wisdom – Nancy Sherman

Slave Narratives (LOA #114), Andrews, William L., and Henry Louis Gates, editors.