2016 - 2017

0662-2121-01
  The Subject, the Other, the Difference and the Identity: Derrida, Foucault, Dele                     
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES
Aim Deuelle LuskiGilman-humanities326Mon1600-1800 Sem  1
 
 
University credit hours:  2.0

Course description
The purpose of this course is to articulate what is meant by the postmodern and postmodernism, to read a number of contemporary theorists, and to explore how these terms are appropriate for the reading of literary, art, architectural, and theoretical texts. But, what does it mean to be postmodern? What are the differences between the modern and the postmodern? What is the relation between postmodernism and post modernity? How have those differences been articulated by various contemporary philosophical, and art theorists? Initial focus will be on specific philosophers such as Foucault, Deleuze, Levinas and Derrida, following the exploration of their special questions, characteristics, and kinds of philosophic inquiry, which are linked to political and social considerations. Attention will turn toward the status of several prominent analyses within phenomenology and existentialism, among others, within each of these kinds, (1) conceptions of self, subjectivity, or (self)-consciousness, and inter-subjectivity, (2) the analysis and role of language and art in philosophical inquiry, and (3) critiques of metaphysics, and the question of difference, the other and the overflowing.
The course is designed to provide students with a lucid understanding of the major themes of French philosophical post-modern theory of thought and criticism. The course is also organized into several thematic units, as follows: 1, the French philosophical tradition [from Descartes to Bergson); 2, the challenge of French existentialism; 3, the emergence of structuralism; 4, the genesis of post-structuralism; and 5, major readings by the following authors: Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Althusser, Derrida, Deleuze and Levinas.
 

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