English CRI 200A - Winter, 2014

Class Information

Instructor: Frederickson, Kathleen
Time: W 3:10-6:00
Location: 248 Voorhies

Description

CT 200A
This course is designed to enable you to read work in contemporary critical theory. With that aim in view, it sets out to offer a partial overview of key movements and thinkers, from Kant onward, that retain theoretical relevance in the current moment. We will read texts by Immanuel Kant, GWF Hegel, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Martin Heidegger, Jacques Lacan, Franz Fanon, Louis Althusser, Huey Newton, Jacques Derrida, Giles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, Judith Butler, Gayatri Spivak, Slavoj Zizek, Kojin Karatani, Achille Mbembe, Catherine Malabou, Elizabeth Povinelli, Fred Moten, Mel Chen, and others.


Grading

Final Seminar Paper, attendance, weekly discussion posts.

Texts

Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
Marx/Engels, The German Ideology
Karatani, Transcrique
Freud, The Ego and the Id
Karatani, Transcritique
Heidegger, Being and Time
Derrida, Of Spirit
Marx, Capital I
Althusser, For Marx, Lenin and Philosophy
Foucault , The Order of Things
Chen, Animacies
Povinelli, Economies of Abandonment
Lacan , Seminar XI