GOVT 6676 - [Critical Continental Thought]

(crosslisted) COML 6676 , FREN 6676  
     

It is at once a mapping of the contours of French theory and an investigation of genealogical, deconstructive and feminist approaches to the political theory. We begin with the thought experiment of the Collège de Sociologie: Klossowski, Blanchot, Bataille. An alternative trajectory is formed out of the epistemological writings of Gaston Bachelard and includes Georges Canguilhem as well as some of his most illustrious students and colleagues: Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Etienne Balibar, and Frantz Fanon. We conclude with an examination of femininity and eros: Sarah Kofman, Luce Irigaray, Hélène Cixous and Jean Baudrillard.

Topic for 2017-2018

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