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The Modern and the Postmodern (Part 2)
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Syllabus
- Week 1 - Course Pages
- Week 2 - Intensity and the Ordinary: Sex, Death, Aggression and Guilt
With a focus on Civilization and its Discontents, we examine how Freud’s theories tried to expose profound instincts as they appeared in daily life. - Week 3 - Intensity and the Ordinary: Art, Loss, Forgiveness
A reading of Virginia Woolf’s modernist novel To the Lighthouse shows how giving up the search for the “really real” can liberate one to attend to the everyday. - Week 4 - The Postmodern Everyday
We go back to Ralph Waldo Emerson and forward to Ludwig Wittgenstein to consider how forms of life and language games need to foundation to be compelling. - Week 5 - From Critical Theory to Postmodernism
Through a consideration of Max Horkheimer & Theodor Adorno along with Michel Foucault, we confront the philosophical effort to escape from totality in order to understand the politics of control. - Week 6 - Paintings II
A very brief consideration of how artists are responding to the loss of foundations to produce work that redefines art. - Week 7 - Postmodern Identities
We examine short pieces by Judith Butler and Slavjo Zizek to understand how identities get formed (and performed) in a world without foundations. - Week 8 - Late-term Review
Review of all the thinkers we have studied in Parts I and II of the class, along with some complementary material. - Week 9 - Postmodern Pragmatisms
After postmodern playfulness, or alongside it, we see the resurgence of the pragmatic impulse to return philosophy to real human problems. - Week 9 - Extra (Optional) Writing Assignment
Prerequisite
None.
Instructors
Michael S. Roth
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