Modern Humanities Week 9:

Living in the Modern: Social Organization in the Modern Age

Organizing the Modern World

Great Modernist Political Theories

Marx & Communism

• Marx and Alienation
• Communist Manifesto
• Objections to the communist program

Liberalism

• What Is Liberalism?
• Notes on liberalism
• Francis Fukuyama, the End of History, and the Triumph of Liberalism
• American Exceptionalism

Modernism and its Others

Tradition

• Giddens and the Detraditionalization Thesis
• Uses of Tradition: Tradition vs. Reason
• Uses of Tradition: Tradition vs. Modernity
• Anthony Giddens on Tradition
• Giddens on Fundamentalism
• What Tradition Is Not

Fascism: Modern or Not?

• Umberto Eco, "Eternal Fascism: 14 Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt"
• Fascism
• What Is Fascism?
• 14 Characteristics of Fascism
• Characteristics of Fascism
• Mussolini, "What is Fascism?"
• Fascism Part One and Part Two (Wallace G. Mills history class notes)
• Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Film
  • Starship Troopers
    • Script
    • Roger Ebert review
    • Fascist or not? A review that debates the merits
  • Leni Riefenstahl
    • Photos and Film
    • Zizek - Riefenstahl and Fascism

Weber & Bureaucracy: Blind Modernism?

• Weber
• Bureaucracy

Feuerbach

• Principles of the Philosophy of the Future questions