University of Chicago

SOSC 12200 and 12300

Self, Culture, and Society

Instructor: Chris Cutrone

Course readings: articles (PDF files)

SOSC 12200

(Winter Quarter)

Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense" (1873)

Siegfried Kracauer, "The Mass Ornament" (1927)

Theodor W. Adorno, "Commodity Music Analysed" (1934-40)

[music track listing for Adorno audio CD 1, "Commodity Music Analysed"]

[music track listing for Adorno audio CD 2, "On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening"]

SOSC 12300

(Spring Quarter)

Michel Foucault, "We 'Other Victorians' " (1976)

Sigmund Freud, "Notes upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis" [case study] [original record of the case]

Freud, "Mourning and Melancholia" (1917)

Freud, "On Narcissism: An Introduction" (1914)

Freud, "The Future of an Illusion" (excerpt) (1927)

Wilhelm Reich, "Ideology as Material Power" (1933/46)

Anna Freud, "Identification with the Aggressor"

Theodor W. Adorno, "Sociology and Psychology" (1955)

Adorno, "Sexual Taboos and the Law Today" (1963)