Courses of Study 2013-2014 
    
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Courses of Study 2013-2014 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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HIST 2330 - [Origins of the Social]

(crosslisted)
(also ANTHR 2130 , COML 2330 , GOVT 2729 ) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.

Next offered 2015-2016. Permission of instructor required.

C. Robcis.

Political philosophy has often been preoccupied with the problem of “the social:” how is society born? How do individuals come together and what allows gives their actions and discourses an overall framework? How does a population become a community governed by explicit and implicit rules, norms, mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion? And how does this social formation address questions of power and law, state and nation, equality and justice, identity and difference, citizenship and civility? This seminar provides an introduction to some of the major figures of European intellectual history who have attempted to think and rethink this problem of “the social.” The class will focus on the close reading and the historicization of each text. Readings will include Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, Stuart Mill, Durkheim, Mauss, Freud, Levi-Strauss, Derrida, Gayle Rubin, Monique Wittig, Carole Pateman, Judith Butler.



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