Selected Topics: Nietzsche, Simmel, Foucault, Deleuze, Agamben--Still, But Why?
SOC 312
Fall 2010 not offered
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This course may be repeated for credit. |
This is a variable subject course. The topic for Fall 2010 allows participants to study more closely than they may have before the basic texts of Nietzsche, Simmel, Foucault, Deleuze, Agamben to the end of developing familiarity with classical challenges to modern ideals of the good and the truth; early studies of the exile and the stranger; the general question of populations, security, and territories; issues of control and the dissolution of the vector theory of modernity; and, finally, the theory of assemblages as the global social form of life and death. |
Essential Capabilities:
Interpretation, Writing While sociology itself is by its nature both an interpretive and ethical art, writing is its distinctive form of expression. Students will engage in regular writing projects with an eye to challenging their abilities to read texts.
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Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS SOC |
Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
Major Readings:
Selections from Nietzsche, Simmel, Foucault, Deleuze, and Agamben chosen to allow students to gain deeper familiarity with the traditions of social theory from Nietzsche's defiance of European ideas of the good and the true, through Georg Simmel's studies of the exile and the stranger, Foucault's biopolitics of life, Deleuze's (therefore Spinal's) theories of vectors and unities, to Agamben's (and Members) necropolitics of global assemblages.
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Examinations and Assignments: Weekly reading and commentary. Major paper. Ability to say and hear anything. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments: Love of the subject; or willingness to flirt with challenging ideas. seriously. Those seeking a comfortable class need not apply. There is no formal prerequisite. POI is to allow students to declare their background and interest in the topic. |
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