GOVT 3725 - [Ideology 2: Contemporary Continental Political Thought]

(crosslisted)
(also COML 3725) (CA-AS)

Fall. 4 credits.

Next offered 2014-2015.

D. Rubenstein.

This semester we will be examining everyday life, space, sexuality and language in the works of primarily French philosophers of the 20th century. Topics will be the critique of everyday life (Lefebvre, de Certeau), consumer society (Baudrillard, Barthes), psychogeography and situationalism (Debord, Vaneigem), sexuality (Barthes, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari), language and postcolonialism (Derrida).