Об этом курсе: This course examines how the idea of "the modern" develops at the end of the 18th century in European philosophy and literature, and how being modern (or progressive, or hip) became one of the crucial criteria for understanding and evaluating cultural change. Are we still in modernity, or have we moved beyond the modern to the postmodern?
Автор: Wesleyan University
Преподаватели: Michael S. Roth
| Выполнение | 3-5 hours/week |
| Язык | English |
| Как пройти курс | Чтобы пройти курс, выполните все оцениваемые задания. |
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Программа курса
НЕДЕЛЯ 1
Course Pages
2 материала для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: Syllabus
- Reading: Course Logistics
НЕДЕЛЯ 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.
4 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: Intensity and the Ordinary: Sex, Death, Aggression and Guilt--Freud
- Видео: Intensity and the Ordinary: Sex, Death, Aggression and Guilt II
- Видео: Intensity and the Ordinary: Sex, Death, Aggression and Guilt III
- Видео: Intensity and the Ordinary: Sex, Death, Aggression and Guilt IV
НЕДЕЛЯ 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.
4 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: Intensity and the Ordinary: Art, Loss, Forgiveness--Woolf
- Видео: Intensity and the Ordinary: Art, Loss, Forgiveness II
- Видео: Intensity and the Ordinary: Art, Loss, Forgiveness III
- Видео: Intensity and the Ordinary: Art, Loss, Forgiveness IV
Оцениваемый: First Writing Assignment
НЕДЕЛЯ 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.
4 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: The Postmodern Everyday--Emerson and Wittgenstein
- Видео: The Postmodern Everyday II
- Видео: The Postmodern Everyday III
- Видео: The Postmodern Everyday IV
Оцениваемый: Second Writing Assignment
НЕДЕЛЯ 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.
4 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: From Critical Theory to Postmodernism
- Видео: From Critical Theory to Postmodernism II
- Видео: From Critical Theory to Postmodernism III
- Видео: From Critical Theory to Postmodernism IV
Оцениваемый: Third Writing Assignment
НЕДЕЛЯ 6
Paintings II
A very brief consideration of how artists are responding to the loss of foundations to produce work that redefines art.
2 видео
- Видео: Paintings II, Part II
НЕДЕЛЯ 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.
4 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: Postmodern Identities--Butler and Zizek
- Видео: Postmodern Identities II
- Видео: Postmodern Identities III
- Видео: Postmodern Identities IV
Оцениваемый: Fourth Writing Assignment
НЕДЕЛЯ 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.
4 видео
- Видео: Late-term Review II
- Видео: Late-term Review III
- Видео: Late-term Review IV
НЕДЕЛЯ 9
Postmodern Pragmatisms
After postmodern playfulness, or alongside it, we see the resurgence of the pragmatic impulse to return philosophy to real human problems.
3 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: Postmodern Pragmatisms
- Видео: Postmodern Pragmatisms II
- Видео: Postmodern Pragmatisms III
Оцениваемый: Fifth Writing Assignment
Extra (Optional) Writing Assignment
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- Peer Review: Extra (Optional) Writing Assignment
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