HJS 310. International Perspectives on Justice
Prof. Kyoo Lee, 524 West 59th St. Rm 8.63.15, Dept. of Philosophy, John Jay College, CUNY
Office Hours: By Appointment
08/29 Administrative Orientation
I. INTRODUCTION: A LOOK AT IN/JUSTICE TODAY
09/12 A Planetary Opticalization/Reterritorialization of the World: A Philosophical Introduction
Read In Advance: William Scheuerman, Globalization: A Philosophical Overview (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Read In Advance: Paul Virilio, Colonization of Time, Pure War
Supplementary Read: David Abernethy, Consequences of European Overseas Rule, The Dynamics of Global Dominance
Supplementary Read: Kofi Annan, The Role of the State in the Age of Globalization, June 2000
Supplementary Read: Kate Ascher, excerpt re Making a Fruit Salad in NYC, The Works: Anatomy of a City
Supplementary Read: Etienne Balibar, Europe: Vanishing Mediator
Supplementary Read: Noam Chomsky, What is Globalization? (video) It is an International Immigration (video)
Supplementary Read: Globalization and the Flow of Knowledge (video)
Supplementary Read: Globalization: The Haves and Have Nots (video)
Supplementary Read: Douglas Kellner, Virilio, War, and Technology: Some Critical Reflections
Supplementary Read: Jeffrey Sachs, The Future of Globalization (video)
Supplementary Read: Amartya Sen, How to Judge Globalism
Supplementary Read: Joseph Stiglitz, Sharing the Benefits of Globalization (video)
Supplementary Read: World Economic Update: The Great Globalization Debate (video)
Supplementary Read: Paul Virilio, Excerpts, The Information Bomb
09/19 The Problem of Global Justice: Free, Fun and Fair?
Read In Advance: Thomas Nagel, The Problem of Global Justice
Read In Advance: Arjun Appadurai, Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
Supplementary Read: David Abernethy, Consequences of European Overseas Rule, The Dynamics of Global Dominance
Supplementary Read: Albert Anderson, Universal Values for a World Community, World Community Seminar Series (audio)
Supplementary Read: Etienne Balibar, Europe: Vanishing Mediator
Supplementary Read: Ramin Bahrani, Chop Shop (video)
Supplementary Read: Stuart Elden, Challenging Globalization: Territory Without Borders (video)
Supplementary Read: David Held, Violence, Law, and Justice in a Global Age
Supplementary Read: Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch
09/26 Who Are We? And Where Are We?
Read In Advance: Richard Rorty, Who Are We? Moral Universalism and Economic Triage
Read In Advance: Linda Alcoff, Habits of Hostility on Seeing Race
Supplementary Read: David Abernethy, Consequences of European Overseas Rule, The Dynamics of Global Dominance
Supplementary Read: Erik Camayd-Freixas, Court Interpreter Breaks Confidentiality Code to Speak Out ... (video)
Supplementary Read: Linda Alcoff, Habits of Hostility on Seeing Race
Supplementary Read: Albert Anderson, The Cosmopolitan Idea, World Community Seminar Series (audio)
Supplementary Read: Albert Anderson, Truth, Reality and the Growth of Empire, World Community Seminar Series (audio)
Supplementary Read: Hannah Arendt, The Perplexities of the Rights of Man, The Origins of Totalitarianism
Supplementary Read: Etienne Balibar, Outlines of a Topography of Cruelty: Citizenship and Civility in the Era of Global Violence
Supplementary Read: Joseph Carens, Aliens and Citizens: The Case for Open Borders
Supplementary Read: Antonio Caso, The Human Person and the Totalitarian State
Supplementary Read: Stuart Elden, Challenging Globalization: Territory Without Borders (video)
Supplementary Read: Adam Liptak, A Citizen, But "Natural Born"? McCain's Eligibility Disputed by Professor
Supplementary Read: Kelly Oliver, Seeing Race, Witnessing: Beyond Recognition
II. IN/JUSTICE AND OUT/LAWS: SPIRIT AND EMBODIEMENT
10/06 The Code of Hammurabi and the Spirit of Laws
Supplementary Read: Martha Roth, Reading Mesopotamian Law Cases PBS 5 100: A Question of Filiation
Supplementary Read: U.S. Constitution Bill of Rights (03/04/1789)
Supplementary Read: Harold Medina, U.S. Court of Appeals Circuit Judge, The Bill of Rights-Our Heritage, Vital Speeches of the Day, 2/1/58
Supplementary Read: Famous Trials
10/31 Confucianism and the Spirit of Laws
Read In Advance: Zhao Dunhua, Axiological Rules and Chinese Political Philosophy
Supplementary Read: Albert Chen, Is Confucianism Compatible with Liberal Constitutional Democracy?
Supplementary Read: Baogan He, Confucianism Versus Liberalism Over Minority Rights
Supplementary Read: Famous Trials
11/07 Criminology as Lovemaking: An African Perspective
Read In Advance: Criminology as Lovemaking: An Africa Centered Theory of Justice
Supplementary Read: Famous Trials
III. IN/JUSTICE AND NON/VIOLENCE: WAR, CONQUEST AND RESISTANCE
11/14 Sunzi's Art of War and Bhagavad Gita: An Ethics of War
Read In Advance: Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Read In Advanec: Bhagavad Gita
Read In Advance: S. Painadath S J, A Culture of Competition or Compassion? On The Relevance of Bhagavad Gita
Supplementary Read: Charles de Montesquieu, Book IX. Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to a Defensive Force, The Spirit of Laws
Supplementary Read: Charles de Montesquieu, Book X. Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to Offensive Force, The Spirit of Laws
Supplementary Read: John Armitage, On Ernst Jünger’s ‘Total Mobilization’: A Re-evaluation in the Era of War on Terrorism
Supplementary Read: Mahatma Gandhi, Excerpt, Writings on the Philosophy of Non-Violence
Supplementary Read: Sacred Texts, Timeline
11/21 Place of Responsibility in Wars of Rights
Read In Advance: David Luban, Just War and Human rights
Read In Advance: David Luban, Contrived Ignorance, Legal Ethics and Human Dignity
In-class Material: PBS, the Frontline, the Torture Question (video)
Supplementary Read: Albert Anderson, Swords and Plowshares, World Community Seminar Series (audio)
Supplementary Read: Albert Anderson, Universal Values for a World Community, World Community Seminar Series (audio)
Supplementary Read: Hannah Arendt, The Perplexities of the Rights of Man, The Origins of Totalitarianism
Supplementary Read: Sam Harris, In Defense of Torture
Supplementary Read: David Held, Violence, Law, and Justice in a Global Age
Supplementary Read: David Luban, The Torture Lawyers of Washington
Supplementary Read: Amanda Ripley, Redefining Torture
Supplementary Read: Susan Sontag, Regarding the Torture of Others
Supplementary Read: John Yoo, Terrorist Tort Travesty
Supplementary Read: Eli Zaretsky, Trauma and Dereification: September 11 and the Problem on Ontological Security
IV. RESEARH PRESENTATIONS
11/28 Student Presentations
12/05 Student Presentations
12/12 Student Presentations
