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This is the place to be if you want to know what we'll be doing on any given day.  Please remember that this is my best guess of how much material we will cover and it is subject to change once we get underway. The calendar will be updated frequently to reflect our actual progress during the semester.
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Week Date Material: Tuesday Thursday

1

1/18 & 1/20/00

Introduction to 20th century post-philosophy

Writing in Philosophy

Writing workshop  

Philosophy for Laymen (Bertrand Russell)

2

1/25 & 1/27/00

Poststructuralist Theories: [Contemp. Literary Theory] Intro (p. 125-130)   Psychoanalytic Theories: Jacques Lacan (137-141) and Julia Kristeva (141-144)

3

2/1 & 2/3/00

More poststructuralism: Jacques Derrida & Deconstruction: (144-149) Class cancelled due to poor weather...

  

4

2/8 & 2/10/00

Journal #1 due

Read the interview with Derrida [handout]

 

 Poststructuralist Think Tank

Michel Foucault: Discourse & Power (158-169)

 

5

2/15 & 2/17/00

Intro to Postmodernism (175-179)

 

 

Jean Baudrillard (179-182)

6

2/22 & 2/24/00

Jean Francois Lyotard: (182-185)

Gayatri Spivak: (193-197)

 Journal #2 due

  Foucault: Power/Knowledge: Chapter 2: Prison Talk (37-54)

 

7

2/29 & 3/2/00

Foucault: Power/Knowledge: Chapter 3: Body/Power (55-62) Paper #1 due

Foucault: Power/Knowledge:  Chapter 6: Truth and Power (109-133)

3/7 & 3/9/00

Spring

Break

8

3/14 & 3/16/00

Foucault: Power/Knowledge:  Chapter 6: Truth and Power (109-133)

 

 

Writing Workshop...

9

3/21 & 3/23/00

Journal #3 due

Review Foucault Introduction to Marcuse

One Dimensional Man: Chapter 1: The new forms of control

10

3/28 & 3/30/00

Paper #1 revisions due  

One Dimensional Man: Chapter 2: The closing of the political universe

Journal #4 due

One Dimensional Man: Chapter 3: The conquest of the unhappy consciousness: repressive desublimation

11

4/4 & 4/6/00

One Dimensional Man: Chapter 4: The closing of the universe of discourse One Dimensional Man: Chapters 5-7: Highlights and summary discussion...

12

4/11 & 4/13/00

Journal #5 due

  One Dimensional Man: Chapter 8: The historical commitment of philosophy 

One Dimensional Man:  

Chapter 9: The catastrophe of liberation

Chapter 10: Conclusion Marcuse think tank wrap-up

13

4/18 & 4/20/00

 Luce Irigaray, The Sex Which is Not One: Chapter 4: The Power of Discourse and the Subordination of the Feminine The Sex Which is Not One: Chapter 8: Women on the Market

14

4/25 & 4/27/00

Journal #6 due

  The Sex Which is Not One: Chapter 9: Commodities among themselves

Feminist readings handouts and web selections:

15

5/2 & 5/4/00

Feminist readings handouts and web selections: Paper #2 due [This is your final.] Regular Finals Begin

 

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