HJS 310. International Perspectives on Justice
Prof. Kyoo Lee, 524 West 59th St. Rm 8.63.15, Dept. of Philosophy, John Jay College, CUNY
Office Hours: By Appointment (Before or After Class)
<<On Daily Reading and Journaling>>
- Try and read all (typically two or three per class day) but
- if pressed for time, aim to read at least one, starting with the first on the list and
- write a well-condensed and composed (no rambling or waffling, please) journal either
- combining all/any of the readings or doing an in-depth analysis of one text of your choice.
- Supplementary readings are for your own reference, also potential material for your further research, and so
- there is no need to write about any of them for your journal unless you happen to find anything particularly interesting.
<<Examples: Journals on "The Personal is Theoretical?"; Theoretical is Scientific?; "Naming Opression and Position":
These examples are quite extensive, and you should aim for a shorter version of the comparable level of analytic and critical reading.>>
I. INTRODUCTION: A LOOK AT IN/JUSTICE TODAY
8/28 Administrative Orientation
Trans-historical, Cross-cultural, Inter-disciplinary, Multi-dimensional
8/30 A Planetary Opticalization of the World: A Philosophical And Relevant Introduction
Read In Advance: William Scheuerman, Globalization: A Philosophical Overview (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Supplementary Read: David Abernethy, Consequences of European Overseas Rule, The Dynamics of Global Dominance
Supplementary Read: Kofi Annan, The Role of the State in the Age of Globalization, June 2000
Supplementary Read: Kate Ascher, excerpt re Making a Fruit Salad in NYC, The Works: Anatomy of a City
Supplementary Read: Etienne Balibar, Europe: Vanishing Mediator
Supplementary Read: Noam Chomsky, What is Globalization? (video) It is an International Immigration (video)
Supplementary Read: Globalization and the Flow of Knowledge (video)
Supplementary Read: Globalization: The Haves and Have Nots (video)
Supplementary Read: Jeffrey Sachs, The Future of Globalization (video)
Supplementary Read: Amartya Sen, How to Judge Globalism
Supplementary Read: Joseph Stiglitz, Sharing the Benefits of Globalization (video)
Supplementary Read: World Economic Update: The Great Globalization Debate (video)
Supplementary Read: Paul Virilio, Excerpts, The Information Bomb
9/4-6 The Problem of Global Justice: Free, Fun and Fair?
Read In Advance: Thomas Nagel, The Problem of Global Justice
Read In Advance: Arjun Appadurai, Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
In-class Material: Arturo Perez Torres, Heather Haynes, Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary (video)
Supplementary Read: David Abernethy, Consequences of European Overseas Rule, The Dynamics of Global Dominance
Supplementary Read: Albert Anderson, Universal Values for a World Community, World Community Seminar Series (audio)
Supplementary Read: Etienne Balibar, Europe: Vanishing Mediator
Supplementary Read: Ramin Bahrani, Chop Shop (video)
Supplementary Read: Stuart Elden, Challenging Globalization: Territory Without Borders (video)
Supplementary Read: David Held, Violence, Law, and Justice in a Global Age
Supplementary Read: Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch
9/11-13 Who Are We? And Where Are We?
Read In Advance: Erik Camayd-Freixas, Interpreting after the Largest ICE Raid in US History (May 12, 2008, 10:00am, Postville, Iowa, USA)
Read In Advance: Richard Rorty, Who Are We? Moral Universalism and Economic Triage
In-class Material: Arturo Perez Torres, Heather Haynes, Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary (video)
Supplementary Read: David Abernethy, Consequences of European Overseas Rule, The Dynamics of Global Dominance
Supplementary Read: Erik Camayd-Freixas, Court Interpreter Breaks Confidentiality Code to Speak Out ... (video)
Supplementary Read: Linda Alcoff, Habits of Hostility on Seeing Race
Supplementary Read: Albert Anderson, The Cosmopolitan Idea, World Community Seminar Series (audio)
Supplementary Read: Albert Anderson, Truth, Reality and the Growth of Empire, World Community Seminar Series (audio)
Supplementary Read: Bruce Anderson, Obama's problem remains that he's not American enough.
Supplementary Read: Hannah Arendt, The Perplexities of the Rights of Man, The Origins of Totalitarianism
Supplementary Read: Etienne Balibar, Outlines of a Topography of Cruelty: Citizenship and Civility in the Era of Global Violence
Supplementary Read: Joseph Carens, Aliens and Citizens: The Case for Open Borders
Supplementary Read: Antonio Caso, The Human Person and the Totalitarian State
Supplementary Read: Stuart Elden, Challenging Globalization: Territory Without Borders (video)
Supplementary Read: Adam Liptak, A Citizen, But "Natural Born"? McCain's Eligibility Disputed by Professor
Supplementary Read: Kelly Oliver, Seeing Race, Witnessing: Beyond Recognition
09/27 Globalized "Race," For Instance: Who Are We Now? And Where Can We Go From Here?
In-class Material: Freedom House (Maps of Freedom)
In-class Material: Jim Lemkin, Beyond Belief (video)
In-class Material: Arturo Perez Torres, Heather Haynes, Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary (video)
Supplementary Read: Linda Alcoff, Habits of Hostility on Seeing Race
Supplementary Read: Bruce Anderson, Obama's problem remains that he's not American enough.
Supplementary Read: Milner Ball, Legal Academy and Minority Scholars
Supplementary Read: Derrick Bell, Brown vs. Board of Education and the Interest-Convergence Dilemma
Supplementary Read: Douglas Linder, The Scottsboro Boys Trials (1931 - 1937); Daniel Anker and Barak Goodman's Film (video)
Supplementary Read: Adam Liptak, A Citizen, But "Natural Born"? McCain's Eligibility Disputed by Professor
Supplementary Read: Kelly Oliver, Seeing Race, Witnessing: Beyond Recognition
Supplementary Read: Leonardo Olschki, What Columbus Saw on Landing in the West Indies, the American Philosophical Society
Supplementary Read: Eli Zaretsky, Trauma and Dereification: September 11 and the Problem on Ontological Security
II. IN/JUSTICE AND OUT/LAWS: SPIRIT AND EMBODIEMENT
10/2-4 The Code of Hammurabi and the Spirit of Laws
Supplementary Read: Martha Roth, Reading Mesopotamian Law Cases PBS 5 100: A Question of Filiation
Supplementary Read: U.S. Constitution Bill of Rights (03/04/1789)
Supplementary Read: Harold Medina, U.S. Court of Appeals Circuit Judge, The Bill of Rights-Our Heritage, Vital Speeches of the Day, 2/1/58
Supplementary Read: Famous Trials
10/9-11 "Constitution" of Medina (Dustur al-Madinah) and the Spirit of Laws
Read In Advance: "Constitution" of Medina (Dustur al-Madinah) (Or This Page - A Simplified Translation)
Read In Advance: Yetkin Yildirim, Peace and Conflict Resolution in the Medina Charter
Supplementary Read: H. Bin Talal, Can Democracy Take Root in the Islamic World? Seeing Iraq's Future By Looking at Its Past, NYTimes
Supplementary Read: U.S. Constitution Bill of Rights (03/04/1789)
Supplementary Read: Harold Medina, U.S. Court of Appeals Circuit Judge, The Bill of Rights-Our Heritage, Vital Speeches of the Day, 2/1/58
Supplementary Read: Famous Trials
10/16-18 Confucianism and the Spirit of Laws
Read In Advance: Zhao Dunhua, Axiological Rules and Chinese Political Philosophy
In-class Material: A Useful Thematic Summary Of Analects
Supplementary Read: Albert Chen, Is Confucianism Compatible with Liberal Constitutional Democracy?
Supplementary Read: Baogan He, Confucianism Versus Liberalism Over Minority Rights
Supplementary Read: Famous Trials
10/23-25 Judge Bao, an Embodiement of the Spirit of Laws
Read In Advance: Judge Bao Solves A Case Through a Ghost That Appeared Thrice
Read In Advance: Judge Bao's Hundred Cases Reconstructed
Read In Advance: Hsei-Yung Hsu, Confucious and Act-Centered Morality
Supplementary Read: Famous Trials
Supplementary Read: Teemu Ruskola, Law Without Law, Or Is Chinese Law an Oxymoron?
Supplementary Read: Teemu Ruskola, Legal Orientalism
Supplementary Read: Wu Pen Ji (1927) re Judge Bao, The Story of the Black Pot
10/30 Criminology as Lovemaking: An African Perspective
Read In Advance: Criminology as Lovemaking: An Africa Centered Theory of Justice
Supplementary Read: Famous Trials
III. IN/JUSTICE AND NON/VIOLENCE: WAR, CONQUEST AND RESISTANCE
11/6-8 Dr. Lee's Writing Clinic
11/6
Class meets; scheduling individual conference for 11/8
Class meets; scheduling individual conference for 11/8 11/8One-on-one conference @ Philosophy Department, NB 8F
One-on-one conference @ Philosophy Department, NB 8F 11/13 An Example: Why Tibet?
In-class Material: Tom Piozet, Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion (video)
Supplementary Read: Tibetan Book of the Dead
Supplementary Read: Tibetan Book of the Dead (video)
Supplementary Read: Hoy, Buddhism and Money: the Repression of Emptiness Today
Supplementary Read: Tenzing Sonam, The Shadow Circus: the CIA in Tibet (video) (VHS tape is available at NYPL-Research Library)
11/15-20 Sun Tzu's Art of War And Its Contemporaneity
Read In Advance: Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Supplementary Read: Charles de Montesquieu, Book IX. Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to a Defensive Force, The Spirit of Laws
Supplementary Read: Charles de Montesquieu, Book X. Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to Offensive Force, The Spirit of Laws
Supplementary Read: John Armitage, On Ernst Jünger’s ‘Total Mobilization’: A Re-evaluation in the Era of War on Terrorism
11/27 Bhagavad Gita And An Ethics of War
Read In Advanec: Bhagavad Gita
Read In Advance: S. Painadath S J, A Culture of Competition or Compassion? On The Relevance of Bhagavad Gita
Supplementary Read: Sacred Texts, Timeline
Supplementary Read: John Armitage, On Ernst Jünger’s ‘Total Mobilization’: A Re-evaluation in the Era of War on Terrorism
Supplementary Read: Mahatma Gandhi, Excerpt, Writings on the Philosophy of Non-Violence
Supplementary Read: Charles de Montesquieu, Book IX. Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to a Defensive Force, The Spirit of Laws
Supplementary Read: Charles de Montesquieu, Book X. Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to Offensive Force, The Spirit of Laws
11/29 St. Augustine's City of God And Its Contemporaneity
Read In Advance: St. Augustine, The City of God
Supplementary Read: Benjamin Barber, Jihad vs. McWorld
Supplementary Read: Sa'di, The Gulistan of Sa'di
Supplementary Read: Some Resources on Just War Theory
In-class Material: The Dark Ages - Fall of Rome I (video)
In-class Material: The Dark Ages - Fall of Rome II (video)
12/4 Place of Responsibility in Wars of Rights
Read In Advance: David Luban, Just War and Human rights
Read In Advance: David Luban, Contrived Ignorance, Legal Ethics and Human Dignity
In-class Material: PBS, the Frontline, the Torture Question (video)
Supplementary Read: Albert Anderson, Swords and Plowshares, World Community Seminar Series (audio)
Supplementary Read: Albert Anderson, Universal Values for a World Community, World Community Seminar Series (audio)
Supplementary Read: Hannah Arendt, The Perplexities of the Rights of Man, The Origins of Totalitarianism
Supplementary Read: Sam Harris, In Defense of Torture
Supplementary Read: David Held, Violence, Law, and Justice in a Global Age
Supplementary Read: David Luban, The Torture Lawyers of Washington
Supplementary Read: Amanda Ripley, Redefining Torture
Supplementary Read: Susan Sontag, Regarding the Torture of Others
Supplementary Read: John Yoo, Terrorist Tort Travesty
Supplementary Read: Eli Zaretsky, Trauma and Dereification: September 11 and the Problem on Ontological Security
12/6 Virilio et al. on the Fascism of Futurized Time
Read In Advance: Paul Virilio, Colonization of Time, Pure War
Read In Advance: Paul Virilio, Military Strategy is Based on Deception, War and Cinema
Read In Advance: Paul Virilio, Sicut Prior est Tempore ita quo Potior Iure, War and Cinema
In-class Material: Paul Virilio on the Communism of Affects, the Technology of Impact and the Facism of Futurization of Time
Supplementary Read: Albert Anderson, The Future of American Empire, World Community Seminar Series (audio)
Supplementary Read: John Armitage and Phil Graham, Dromoeconomics: Towards a Political Economy of Speed
Supplementary Read: Paul Virilio, Interview with: From Modernism to Hypermodernism and Beyond
Supplementary Read: Naomi Klein, Shock Doctrine
Supplementary Read: Naomi Kilein and Alfonso Cuarón, Shock Doctrine: Short Film (video)
Supplementary Read: Naomi Klein's Interview with Charlie Rose (video)
Supplementary Read: Yaron Ezrahi, Dwey's Critique of Democratic Visual Culture and Its Political Implications
Supplementary Read: John Sinclair, Elizabeth Jacka and Stuart Cunningham, Peripheral Vision
Supplementary Read: Andrew Waggoner, The Colonization of Silence: iPod
12/11 Office Hours: Philosophy Department Conference Room (NB 8F)
12/13 Office Hours: Philosophy Department Conference Room (NB 8F)
12/18 Portfolio Due by 11:59pm
Class ID: 5434006
Enroll: HJS310-Fall2012
