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INSTRUCTOR: Matthew Shafer
SECTION: U18
SCHEDULE: Tuesday, 2:00PM-4:30PM
Course Description
Marxism is most frequently associated with politics: with leftwing activist movements and the socialist states of the twentieth century. But Marxism is also a global and interdisciplinary intellectual tradition that intersects with—and offers unorthodox perspectives on—almost every
other academic discipline and field. From physics to ecology, from linguistics to archaeology, from cybernetics to psychology, writers and researchers in the Marxist tradition have carved out influential contributions and advanced controversial reinterpretations. This course intensively surveys that interdisciplinary milieu, approaching Marxism not simply as a political project but as a method for the study of the world as a whole. The course is organized thematically and (more loosely) historically, moving from the nineteenth
century to the present.