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Comparative Literature 190; FALL 2020, I wrote this category keeping…

- - - - “Industrial capitalism, for one, reduces workers to sheer numbers in an accounting book, completely free from the fetters of tradition and non-economic considerations, and so does the market relationship vis-à-vis buyers and sellers. For another, having abandoned the principle of Khadi justice (i.e., personalized ad hoc adjudication), modern law and administration also rule in strict accordance with the systematic formal codes and sine irae et studio, that is, “without regard to person.” Again, Weber found the seed of objectification not in material interests alone, but in the Puritan vocational ethic (Berufsethik) and the life conduct that it inspired, which was predicated upon a disenchanted monotheistic theodicy that reduced humans to mere tools of God’s providence. Ironically, for Weber, modern inward subjectivity was born once we lost any inherent value qua humans and became thoroughly objectified vis-à-vis God in the course of the Reformation. Modern individuals are subjectified and objectified all at once.” (Stanford Philosophy)
        
        With this in mind, one can read and re-read Kincaid with a greater understanding of the philosophical tradition, history, and socio-economic theories which inform the extant social problems which Kincaid and Ho address in their respective works. In tandem with Weber’s understanding of capitalism as an erasure of the individual personhood, one can read these texts as a type of narrative production. In each of the texts, the narrator evokes feelings of alienation and isolation through their narration/ narrative structure. The narrative as a tool of production in turn alienates the reader from the narrative production process.
        
        UNDERSTANDING LITERATURE THROUGH PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY

KEY:

italics = my own interjections, thoughts

roman numerals = primary modes of categorization

  colors = in gradient representing degree of separation; tertiary colors represent shared connections

Works Cited:

 Lewis, William. “Louis Althusser.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 13 Feb. 2018, plato.stanford.edu/entries/althusser/.

  McAfee, Noëlle. “Feminist Philosophy.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 28 June 2018, plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminist-philosophy/.

 Kim, Sung Ho. “Max Weber.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 27 Nov. 2017, plato.stanford.edu/entries/weber/.

Wolff, Jonathan. “Karl Marx.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 12 Apr. 2017, plato.stanford.edu/entries/marx/.

  Switala, Kristin, and Martha E. Gimenez. “‘Marxist Feminism / Materialist Feminism.’” Marxist / Materialist Feminism, Center for Digital Discourse and Culture at Virginia Tech University, 1998, www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/mar.html.