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COML 4352 - [Critical Theory and Race]


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

Enrollment limited to: 15 students. Co-meets with COML 6352 .

P. Vaziri.

Is it still possible to invoke foundational thinkers like Kant and Hegel without an account of how their thought is implicated in the production of race? Contemporary critical theory seems to think so, and our institutional habits of self-reproduction endorse this assumption. Despite decades of scholarship on race and its constitutive relationship to the foundational texts of Western philosophy, critical theory on the whole has yet to assimilate or take seriously the implications and interventions of this body of work. Academic trends like the posthumanist turn and object-oriented ontology are symptomatic of such resistance inasmuch they resolve the problem of difference through its transcendence in “materiality.” This course will engage the insights of contemporary scholarship that locates the centrality of race to the construction of our idea of the Human in general and its manifestation in the humanities disciplines.



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