final exam

Question 1

Eley, Geoff

Answer 1

What is Fascism and Where Does it Come From?

(2021)

Question 2

How does Geoff Eley define fascism in his 2021 essay: What is Fascism and Where Does it Come From?

Answer 2

• it wants to
  silence and even murder its opponents rather than arguing with them
• prefers an authoritarian state over democracy
• it pits an aggressively exclusionary idea of the nation against a pluralism
• needs to be defined by its politics, practices, and organizing modalities
• preference for violence over civility, argument, and debate

Question 3

Malm, Andreas

Answer 3

In the Heat of the Past: Towards a History of the Fossil Economy

(2016)

Question 4

How does Malm define the “fossil economy” in his 2016 essay In the Heat of the Past: Towards a History of the Fossil Economy?

Answer 4

• climate change carries the imprint of every human act…
• the aftermath and the
  source, intimately coupled yet strangely disconnected from each other.
• transformed ecosystems are forced to turn back
  towards human society to understand what has happened
• but where should they look? Only a totality can be the object of interest. We shall call it, provisionally, .the fossil economy’.
• the fossil economy is an altogether historical substance. It must have undergone its own birth once upon a time. The causal powers it now exerts are emergent properties: they were not always there

Question 5

Orwell, George

Answer 5

Road to Wigan Pier
(1937)

&

1894/ Nineteen Eighty Four
(1949)

Question 6

Butler, Judith

Answer 6

Political Philosophy in Freud

(2020)

Question 7

Woolf, Virginia

Answer 7

Mr. Sassoon’s Poems
(1917)

&

Mrs. Dalloway
(1925)

Question 8

Hemmingway, Ernest

Answer 8

The Sun Also Rises
(1926)

&

Une Generation Perdu
(1964)

Question 9

Lawrence, D.H.

Answer 9

Lady Chatterley’s Lover
(1928)

&

Return to Bestwood
(1973)

Question 10

Wright, Richard

Answer 10

Native Son
(1940)

&

Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City
(1945)

Question 11

The Secret Life of Books: Mrs Dalloway

Answer 11

(2016)

Question 12

They Shall Not Grow Old

Answer 12

(2018)

Question 13

Legendary Sin Cities: Paris

Answer 13

(2005)

Question 14

Hemmingway, Journalism, & War

Answer 14

(2021)

Question 15

D.H. Lawrence: Sex, Exile, & Greatness

Answer 15

(2021)

Question 16

Richard Wright: Black Boy

Answer 16

(1997)

Question 17

George Orwell: A Life in Pictures

Answer 17

(2003)

Question 18

What is Democracy?

Answer 18

(2018)

Question 19

War & Peace

(novels & supplemental readings)

4

Answer 19

• Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf (1925)
• The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemmingway (1926)
• Political Philosophy in Freud, Judith Butler (2020)
• Mr. Sassoon’s Poems, Virginia Woolf (1917)

Question 20

Industry & Ecology

(novels & supplemental readings)

3

Answer 20

• Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D.H. Lawrence (1928)
• In the Heat of the Past: Towards a History of the Fossil Economy, Andreas Malm (2016)
• Return to Bestwood, D.H. Lawrence (1973)

Question 21

Fascism & Democracy

(novels & supplemental readings)

5

Answer 21

• Native Son, Richard Wright (1940)
• Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City, Richard Wright (1945)
• What is Fascism & Where Does it Come From?, Geoff Eley (2021)
• 1984, George Orwell, (1949)
• The Road to Wigan Pier, George Orwell (1937)