Class Information
Instructor: Frederickson, Kathleen
Time: M 3:10-6:00
Location: 248 Voorhies
Description
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 Hegel onward, that retain theoretical relevance in the current moment. We will read texts by GWF Hegel, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan, Frantz Fanon, Louis Althusser, Huey Newton, Luce Irigaray, Jacques Derrida, Leopoldina Fortunati, Judith Butler, Gayatri Spivak, Sylvia Wynter, Fred Moten, and others.
Grading
Participation and Reading
Preliminary Paper Proposal
Seminar Paper