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PHIL 446, Social and Political Philosophy (Reed-Sandoval): Library Guides

Readings

Thursday, August 28

Tuesday, September 2

Charles W. Mills, Decolonizing Western Political Philosophy

Thursday, September 4

Theodore Adorno et al, “Introduction” and “Chapter 1” , The Authoritarian Personality (Verso, 2019)
ebook order placed 7/31
Verónica Gago, “New Authoritarianism as Counterrevolution,” in In the Midst (Blog), June 3, 2025 (translated by Liz Mason-Deese)

Tuesday, September 9

Thursday, September 11

Andrea Dworkin, “The Promise of the Ultra-Right” and “Antifeminism” in Right Wing Women (New York, Perigee Books, 1978)
(*accessibility issues)

Tuesday, September 16

Amy Reed-Sandoval, “Children, Borders, and Adultification,” in Intimate Borders: Feminist Migration Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2025)
not yet published, order queued
Gloria Anzaldúa, Chapter 1 of Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Aunt Lute Books, 1987)
ebook ordered but will have single user limit

Thursday, September 18

Hatred of Democracy
ordered 7/31

Thursday, September 25

Tuesday, September 30

Tuesday, October 7

(select and read three of the following op-eds written by philosophers)

Sukaini Hirji and Serene Khader, “Stop Scolding Student Protestors, ” in Chronicle of Higher Education, December 6th, 2023
Jennifer Morton, “Why Viewpoint Diversity Isn’t the Solution to Liberal Bias,” in NY Times, July 10th, 2025
title changed to Why Hiring Professors With Conservative Views Could Backfire on Conservatives ? or How to Hire Conservative Professors: [Op-Ed]
Alberto Sánchez, C. (2020, October 27). Don’t call immigrant farmworkers heroes, they are underappreciated essential workers. San Francisco Chronicle (CA).
Adam Hosein, “Do Outsiders Have Legal Rights?” in Boston Review, 2017
Tina Rulli, “Why Celebrities Have a Moral Duty to Help Promote Lifesaving Vaccines,” in The Conversation, March 15, 2020
Amy Reed-Sandoval, Adults-Only Culture Entails Bad Faith,” in The Nevada Independent, July 19th, 2023.

Thursday, October 9

Tuesday, October 14

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, excerpts (posted on Canvas)
Christopher Bertram, “Why Rousseau Still Matters,” originally published in The Philosopher’s Magazine

Thursday, October 16

Brian Burkhart, Chapter 1, “Philosophical Colonizing of People and Land,” in Indigenizing Philosophy through the Land: A Trickster Methodology for Decolonizing Environmental Ethics and Indigenous Futures (Michigan State University Press, 2019)

Tuesday, October 21

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859), chapters 1, 2, and 4,

Thursday, October 23

Isaiah Berlin, “Two Concepts of Liberty,” in Four Essays on Liberty (Oxford University Press, 1969)

Tuesday, October 28

Nancy Hirschmann, “The Concept of Liberty and the Place of Power: A Feminist Perspective,” in Rivista Italiana de Filosofia Politica (2021), pp. 69-86

Thursday, October 30

Tuesday, November 4

Thursday, November 6

“Karl Marx the Moral Philosopher: An Interview with Vanessa Wills,” in Jacobin, August 23, 2024,

Tuesday, November 11

Alia Al-Saji, “Muslim Women and the Rhetoric of Freedom” in Mariana Ortega & Linda Martín Alcoff, Constructing the Nation: A Race and Nationalism Reader. (SUNY Press 2009)
ordered via JSTOR 8/1
Constructing the Nation: A Race and Nationalism Reader
Lila Abu-Lughod, “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others,” in American Anthropologist, vol. 104 no. 3 (783-790)

Tuesday, November 18

Thursday, November 20

Tuesday, November 25

Tuesday, December 2

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