GOVT 4705 - [Contemporary Readings of the Ancients]

(crosslisted) COML 4750
(CA-AS)

Spring. Next Offered: 2019-2020. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Co-meets with COML 6727/GOVT 6509.

D. Rubenstein.

Occasioned by the new publication of Alain Badiou’s Republic, this semester we will focus on contemporary continental readings of Plato. A significant part of the semester will involve a close reading of The Republic, inspired by Badiou and Avital Ronell’s Loser Sons. Other texts will include Timaeus and The Phaedrus; Derrida, Baudrillard, Le Doeuff and Irigaray will figure among the interlocutors. (PT)