社會領域的課程目標：在於啟發學生能夠承認差異，願意肯定自我、欣賞他人與尊重差異。
本課程目標：探討社會的世界議題：「暴力、屠殺與現代性」。回應社會領域課程幾個關切問題：（一）世界到底怎麼了；（二）有哪些重要的世界議題；（三）.如何尊重異文明與異文化？
種族歧視、種族迫害以及種族屠殺成為當代世界的主要問題，也是人類普世價值關注重點。在種族、宗教和生存競爭的諸多因素下，人類的集體屠殺和迫害，歷史不絕。讓屠殺成為當代問題意識，構成人類集體創傷和無盡反思的無疑是納粹滅絕猶太人的大屠殺事件。這場大屠殺做為不可漠視的歷史重大事件，正在於它的獨特性和常態性，獨特性在於屠殺規模最大，最迅速徹底；常態性在於屠殺得以遂行的條件正是我們文明的一部分，存在我們日常生活中。當代著名社會學家Bauman一針見血指出，從運作過程來看，大屠殺的根源正是人類的理性和現代性，就是我們據以生活的文明。現代性弔詭的成為大屠殺的歷史條件，也開啟了大屠殺的本質及其與文明、理性、現代性關係的思考。如果大屠殺是我們的文明和現代性的結果，何以致之？人類又如何避免屠殺的發生？現代性的屠殺又會讓人類處於什麼樣的生命情境？
這些問題的思考，要從納粹大屠殺再拉回當下政治情境。當代的種族淨化和宗教屠殺仍不時見諸盧安達、波希尼亞、阿富汗、伊拉克等國家發生的戰事，而戰爭與反恐霸權帶來的難民營/戰俘營/拘留中心的法律虛空狀態，則使得這群人處於不受法律保護的生存狀態。拷問刑虐的濫施、不人道待遇成為常態作為，構成一個無法可管的領域。這說明了國家主權暴力對內部敵人/外部敵人，對身體/生命的殘虐對待。針對這些現象，義大利當代思想家阿岡本(Agamben)延伸傅柯生命政治(biopolitics)的概念，透過納粹集中營的分析，視集中營為生命政治化的體現，展現在主權構作出的例外狀態，並藉以製造出不受法律保障，被剝除公民資格，任人宰割，且不構成犧牲獻祭條件的受譴咒人(homo sacer)的裸命情境。這種例外狀態在當代則成為一種常態或律則，形成例外統治，國家暴力透過主權得以隨時決斷出受譴咒的人，召喚出任人宰割的裸命，就像德國威瑪時代卡爾賓丁(Carl Binding)為種族屠殺埋下的信條：可以任意消滅一切「不值得活的生命」一樣。而我們都處在潛在的例外狀態中，隨時有成為裸命的可能。這使得當代社會成為另一種集中營，我們活在集中營的邏輯中(logic of camp)。集中營做為主權—生命政治的範型乃成為阿岡本當代社會的主要意象。此外，當代重要的女性主義思想家Butler回應阿岡本的例外狀態和裸命的思想，藉Levinas的說法提出脆弱不安生命(precarious life)的概念，以反思當代國家或集體暴力的現象以及人的生存處境。
在上述脈絡下，本課程將透過Girard、Arendt、Bauman、Foucault、Agamben、Butler等幾位思想家的概念探討納粹德國以及當代國家暴力主導下集體屠殺的歷史事實及其背後的現代性根源和新近開展。透過暴力與集體迫害、德國反猶太的歷史發展、納粹大屠殺的現代性根源、當代種族、宗教屠殺的發展和反思、當代屠殺的現代性開展等議題的討論，深入掌握理性、文明、官僚制度與集體屠殺的親近關係，以及生命政治、例外統治的當代問題和構作出裸命或脆弱不安生命的可能。希冀透過這些討論瞭解人類歷史中集體屠殺的各式面貌和暴力本質，以及構作出屠殺的現代性因素。
The goal of the social field curriculum is to inspire students to recognize differences, be willing to affirm themselves, appreciate others and respect differences.
The goal of this course: to explore social world issues: "Violence, massacre and modernity". In response to several concerns in social field courses: (1) What is going on in the world? (2) What are the important world issues? (3) How to respect different civilizations and cultures?
Racial discrimination, racial persecution and genocide have become major issues in the contemporary world and are also the focus of universal human values. Due to many factors such as race, religion, and competition for survival, human beings have been massacred and persecuted throughout history. What made the Holocaust a contemporary issue and constituted mankind’s collective trauma and endless reflection was undoubtedly the Holocaust incident of the Nazi extermination of the Jews. As a major historical event that cannot be ignored, this massacre is unique and normal. The uniqueness is that the massacre was the largest and most rapid and complete. The normality is that the conditions for the massacre to be carried out are part of our civilization and exist. in our daily lives. Bauman, a famous contemporary sociologist, pointedly pointed out that from the perspective of the operation process, the root cause of the Holocaust is human reason and modernity, which is the civilization we live according to. Modernity paradoxically became the historical condition of the Holocaust, and it also opened up thinking about the nature of the Holocaust and its relationship with civilization, rationality, and modernity. If the Holocaust was the result of our civilization and modernity, why? How can humans avoid massacres? What kind of life situation will the massacre of modernity put human beings in?
To think about these issues, we must start from the Nazi Holocaust and return to the current political situation. Contemporary ethnic cleansing and religious massacres are still seen from time to time in wars in Rwanda, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq and other countries, and the legal void in refugee camps/prisoner of war camps/detention centers brought about by war and counter-terrorism hegemony, This puts this group of people in a state of existence without legal protection. The indiscriminate use of torture and inhumane treatment has become a normal practice and constitutes an uncontrollable field. This illustrates the brutal treatment of internal enemies/external enemies, body/life by the violence of state sovereignty. In response to these phenomena, the contemporary Italian thinker Agamben extended Foucault's concept of biopolitics and analyzed the Nazi concentration camps. He regarded the concentration camps as the embodiment of biopolitics, showing a state of exception created by sovereignty, and thereby Create a situation where the condemned cursed person (homo sacer) has no legal protection, is stripped of his citizenship, and is at the mercy of others, and does not constitute a condition for sacrifice. This state of exception has become a norm or a rule in the contemporary era, forming a rule of exception. State violence can use sovereignty to determine the condemned people at any time, summoning naked lives to be slaughtered, just like Karl Binding in the Weimar era of Germany. Carl Binding laid down the creed for genocide: all "life not worth living" can be destroyed at will. And we are all in a potential state of exception, and may die naked at any time. This makes contemporary society another kind of concentration camp, and we live in the logic of camp. As a paradigm of sovereignty-biopolitics, the concentration camp has become the main image of Aganben's contemporary society. In addition, Butler, an important contemporary feminist thinker, responded to Agamben’s ideas of the state of exception and naked life, and borrowed Levinas’s words to propose the concept of precarious life to reflect on the phenomenon of contemporary national or collective violence and the living situation of human beings. .
In the above context, this course will explore the historical facts of collective massacres led by Nazi Germany and contemporary state violence through the concepts of Girard, Arendt, Bauman, Foucault, Agamben, Butler and other thinkers, as well as the roots of modernity and recent developments behind them. . Through discussions on topics such as violence and collective persecution, the historical development of anti-Semitism in Germany, the modern roots of the Nazi Holocaust, the development and reflection of contemporary racial and religious massacres, and the development of modernity in contemporary massacres, students will gain a deep understanding of rationality, civilization, and bureaucracy. The affinity with mass murder, as well as contemporary issues of biopolitics, the rule of exception and the possibility of constructing a naked life or a fragile and restless life. Through these discussions, we hope to understand the various aspects and violent nature of collective massacres in human history, as well as the modern factors that constitute massacres.
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（北京：中央編譯出版社，2016）
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Arendt, Hannah，《平凡的邪惡：艾希曼耶路撒冷大審記實》（台北：玉山社，2013）
------------，《極權主義的起源》（台北：時報出版社）
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Butler, Judith，《脆弱不安的生命:哀悼與暴力的力量》(Precarious Life)(鄭州:河南大學出版社,2013)
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Fisher，《德國反猶史》(The History of an Obsession)（南京：江蘇人民出版社，2007）
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Jacoby, Russell，《殺戮欲》(Bloodlust)（北京：商務印書館，2013）
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Butler, Judith, "Precarious Life: The Power of Mourning and Violence" (Zhengzhou: Henan University Press, 2013)
Chirot & McCauley, Why not kill them all: Reflections on the Genocide (Beijing: Sanlian)
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Keane, John, Violence and Democracy (Beijing: Central Compilation and Translation Press, 2014)
Mann, Michael, "The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing" (Central Compilation, 2015)
| 評分項目 Grading Method | 配分比例 Grading percentage | 說明 Description |
|---|---|---|
| 課堂報告與出席課堂報告與出席 Class Reports and Attendance |
30 | 課程以講授和討論方式進行，每週安排同學負責閱讀材料之摘要報告，和閱讀心得，並提出問題。報告當天書面繳交。請勿無故缺席課堂報告（無法到課報告請事先請假）。每週點名，出席率列入平時成績計算。 |
| 平時作業平時作業 Daily homework |
20 | 每位同學需就各週之指定教材，任選四篇撰寫閱讀心得，期中考前和期末考前各繳二篇，每篇A4一頁左右書面繳交。切勿缺繳 |
| 自主實作自主實作 Autonomous implementation |
10 | 由通識中心統一規劃 |
| 期中/期末考期中/期末考 Midterm/Final Exam |
40 | 申論題(非開放式考試)(20%+20%) |
