Continental Philosophy's Others
PHIL 360
Spring 2018 not offered
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| Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory |
This seminar will attend to some of the ways in which philosophers of race, Subaltern thinkers, and "postcolonial" philosophers have engaged with the European philosophical archive (more specifically in this case, deconstruction and contemporary French theory). The aim of this course is to focus on some aspects of the debates that emerged from the confrontation between voices intervening from the "margins" of mainstream continental thought and discourses traditionally perceived to be at the center of knowledge production and/or epistemological practices. We will attempt to assess when, where, and how these "philosophies from the borderlands" have had important bearings on contemporary debates in political philosophy and social theory. We will assess both individuals and collective forms of criticism, not only on geographic frontiers but also on liminal and alternative spaces within the same geographic and institutional location, such as the American academy. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS PHIL |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (CSCT)(PHIL)(PHIL-Philosophy)(PHIL-Social Jus) |
Major Readings:
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, A CRITIQUE OF POSTCOLONIAL REASON (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999)
Jacques Derrida, SPECTERS OF MARX: THE STATE OF THE DEBT, THE WORK OF MOURNING AND THE NEW INTERNATIONAL (New York: Routledge, 1994)
Jacques Derrida, ROGUES: TWO ESSAYS ON REASON (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005)
Jacques Derrida, OF HOSPITALITY (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000)
Jacques Derrida, MONOLINGUISM OF THE OTHER OR, THE PROTHESIS OF ORIGIN (Stanford: Stanford University Press)
Achille Mbembe, ON THE POSTCOLONY (Berkley: California University Press, 2001)
"Necropolitics" in PUBLIC CULTURE (2003), 15 (1): 11-40
Michel Foucault, SOCIETY MUST BE DEFENDED, trans. David Macey (New York: Picador, 2003), p. 239-264
Labou Tansi Sony, LIFE AND A HALF (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 20111)
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Examinations and Assignments:
In class Presentations--25% (These will involve a written component orally presented in class)
Final Paper Proposal--30% (This will include both a literature review and a formal paper proposal)
Final Paper (8 to 10 pages)--35%
Attendance/Participation Grade--10% |
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