Sem. 1: Philosophy of Culture /  Social Philosophy: Rethinking the Social Formation

• Louis Althusser For Marx:

  • "Contradiction and Overdetermination" (also in folder)
  • "On the Materialist Dialectic" (also in folder)

• Louis Althusser "Lenin and Philosophy" and Other Essays: 

  • "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" (also in Leitch; also in Adams and Searle; also in Rivkin and Ryan; also in folder)

  • "Marxism and Humanism" (also in folder)

Recommended Readings: 

• Celia Britton "Structuralist and Poststructuralist Psychoanalytic and Marxist Theories" (in Selden, Raman, ed. The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: from Formalism to Poststructuralism Vol. 8)

• William C. Dowling Jameson, Althusser, Marx

• Terry Eagleton Marxism and Literary Criticism

• Pierre Macherey A Theory of Literary Production (out of print but see excerpt in folder)
• Terry Eagleton Criticism and Ideology: 
  • "Categories for a Materialist Criticism" (in folder)
  • "Towards a Science of the Text" (also in Terry Eagleton and Drew Milne, eds. Marxist Literary Theory: a Reader; see excerpt in folder)

• Étienne Balibar and Pierre Macherey "On Literature as an Ideological Form" (in Terry Eagleton and Drew Milne, eds. Marxist Literary Theory; also in folder)
• John Frow Marxism and Literary History: 
  • "For a Literary History" (also in folder)
  • "Intertextuality" (also in folder)

• Celia Britton "Structuralist and Poststructuralist Psychoanalytic and Marxist Theories" (in Selden, Raman, ed. The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: from Formalism to Poststructuralism Vol. 8)

• Terry Eagleton Marxism and Literary Criticism

• David Forgacs "Marxist Literary Theories" (in Ann Jefferson and David Robey, eds.  Modern Literary Theory)

• Lois Tyson Critical Theory Today: "Marxist Criticism"

Praxis:

• Terry Eagleton Criticism and Ideology: "T. S. Eliot" (in folder)

Sem. 1: Philosophy of Mind / Language

• Michèle Barrett Women's Oppression Today [1980]: "Ideology and the Cultural Production of Gender": Parts I and II (also in Judith Newton, et al., eds. Feminist Criticism and Social Change; also in folder)

Sem. 2: Critical Theory

• Barrett, Michèle Women's Oppression Today [1980]:  "Ideology and the Cultural Production of Gender": Parts III and IV (also in Judith Newton, et al., eds. Feminist Criticism and Social Change; also in folder)

• The Marxist-Feminist Literature Collective "Women’s Writing: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, Aurora Leigh" [1978]: "Theoretical Introduction" (in Terry Eagleton and Drew Milne, eds. Marxist Literary Theory; also in Mary Eagleton, ed.  Feminist Literary Theory: a Reader; also in folder)

• Stuart Hall "Race, Articulation, and Societies Structured in Dominance" (in Sociological Theories: Race and Colonialism; also in Houston Baker, ed. Black British Cultural Studies; also in folder)

• Abdul JanMohamed Manichean Aesthetics: the Politics of Literature in Colonial Africa: 
  • "Introduction" (also in folder) 
  • "Conclusion" (also in folder)