À propos de ce cours : 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?
Créé par : Wesleyan University
Enseigné par : Michael S. Roth
| Engagement | 3-5 hours/week |
| Langue | English |
| Comment réussir | Réussissez tous les devoirs notés pour terminer le cours. |
| Notes des utilisateurs |
Programme de cours
SEMAINE 1
Course Pages
2 lectures
- Reading: Syllabus
- Reading: Course Logistics
SEMAINE 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 vidéos, 1 lecture
- Reading: Intensity and the Ordinary: Sex, Death, Aggression and Guilt--Freud
- Vidéo: Intensity and the Ordinary: Sex, Death, Aggression and Guilt II
- Vidéo: Intensity and the Ordinary: Sex, Death, Aggression and Guilt III
- Vidéo: Intensity and the Ordinary: Sex, Death, Aggression and Guilt IV
SEMAINE 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 vidéos, 1 lecture
- Reading: Intensity and the Ordinary: Art, Loss, Forgiveness--Woolf
- Vidéo: Intensity and the Ordinary: Art, Loss, Forgiveness II
- Vidéo: Intensity and the Ordinary: Art, Loss, Forgiveness III
- Vidéo: Intensity and the Ordinary: Art, Loss, Forgiveness IV
Noté: First Writing Assignment
SEMAINE 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 vidéos, 1 lecture
- Reading: The Postmodern Everyday--Emerson and Wittgenstein
- Vidéo: The Postmodern Everyday II
- Vidéo: The Postmodern Everyday III
- Vidéo: The Postmodern Everyday IV
Noté: Second Writing Assignment
SEMAINE 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 vidéos, 1 lecture
- Reading: From Critical Theory to Postmodernism
- Vidéo: From Critical Theory to Postmodernism II
- Vidéo: From Critical Theory to Postmodernism III
- Vidéo: From Critical Theory to Postmodernism IV
Noté: Third Writing Assignment
SEMAINE 6
Paintings II
A very brief consideration of how artists are responding to the loss of foundations to produce work that redefines art.
2 vidéos
- Vidéo: Paintings II, Part II
SEMAINE 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 vidéos, 1 lecture
- Reading: Postmodern Identities--Butler and Zizek
- Vidéo: Postmodern Identities II
- Vidéo: Postmodern Identities III
- Vidéo: Postmodern Identities IV
Noté: Fourth Writing Assignment
SEMAINE 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 vidéos
- Vidéo: Late-term Review II
- Vidéo: Late-term Review III
- Vidéo: Late-term Review IV
SEMAINE 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 vidéos, 1 lecture
- Reading: Postmodern Pragmatisms
- Vidéo: Postmodern Pragmatisms II
- Vidéo: Postmodern Pragmatisms III
Noté: Fifth Writing Assignment
Extra (Optional) Writing Assignment
1 élément
- Peer Review: Extra (Optional) Writing Assignment
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Notation et examens
After my experience on Part 1, I chose to only watch the lectures. I really enjoyed them. Prof Roth's delivery is excellent. The course gave me much food for thought, but I couldn't face writing the essays.
The reading timings should be set to more realistic values, to give us students a true idea of what we are committing to.
A very enlightening approach showering rich content through diverse methodologies. Thanks a lot
It was a great learning experience.
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I came away from the course with a much better understanding of why the world is the way it is today. The diversity of thought offered by great thinkers in featured readings is amazing. Highly recommended!