Course materials accessible online
Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the
Electronic Frontier, HarperPerennial, 1994
0-06-097641-1http://www-cgi.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/book/authorsearch?Rheingold
http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book
3rd week (Feb. 2, 4): Mainstream Civil Society and Western
Democracy
Lab exercise: download
5th week (Feb. 16, 18): Back to the classics: Democracy in
America (and Despotism in Algeria)
Alexis de Tocqueville,
Democracy
in America
Vol One I:
ii.
Origin
of the Anglo-Americans, and the Importance of this Origin in Relation
to their Future Condition.
iii.
Social
Condition of the Anglo-Americans.
ix.
HOW IT
CAN BE STRICTLY SAID THAT THE PEOPLE GOVERN IN THE UNITED
STATES
x.
PARTIES
IN THE UNITED STATES
xi.
Liberty
of the Press in The United States.
xii.
Political
Associations in The United States.
xv.
Unlimited
Power of the Majrity in The United States, and its Consequences
xvii.
Principal
Causes which Serve to Maintain the Democratic Republic in The United
States
Vol Two:
- Part I
v.
How
Religion in The United States Avails itself of Democratic
Tendencies.
vi.
The
Progress of Roman Catholicism in The United States
vii.
What
Causes Democratic Nations to Incline toward Pantheism
Part II
v.Of
the Uses which the Americans Make of Public Associations
vi.Of
the Relation of Public Associations and the Newspapers
vii.Relation
of Civil to Political Associations
viii.How
the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of
Self-Interest Rightly Understood
ix.That
the Americans Apply the Principle of Self-interest Rightly
Understood to Religions Matters
x.Of
the Taste for Physical Well-being in America
xi.Peculiar
Effects of the Love of Physical Gratification in Democratic
Times
xii.Why
Some Americans Manifest a Sort of Spiritual Fanatacism
xiii.Why
the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of their Prosperity
xiv.How
the Taste for Physical Gratifications is United in America to Love
of Freedom and Attention to Public Affairs
xv.How
Religious Belief Sometimes Turns Americans to Immaterial
Pleasures.
Part III
xxi.
Why
Democratic Nations Naturally Desire Peace, and Democratic Armies,
War.
7th week (March 2, 4): "Islam is the Solution!"
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12th week (April 13, 15): Civil Society as Bourgeois
Society
Marx, Critique of Hegel's
'Philosophy of Right', pp. 90-121, 131-142
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13th week (April 20, 22): What is public opinion?
John Stuart Mill,
On
Liberty - skim to ends of chaps 3 and 5.
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14th week (April 27, 29): Virtual Communities and Global
Interactions
Rheingold, The Virtual Community, chaps 1, 2, 4, 9, esp. 10
http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/
10 December 2008
Department
of Government,
College of
Liberal Arts, University of
Texas at Austin.
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