GER 5610 is also offered in Spring 2023
GER 5610 is also offered in Fall 2022
GER 5610 is also offered in Spring 2022
Fall 2019 | GER 5610 Section 001: German Literature in Translation -- Michel Foucault, Philosopher (33069)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Meets With:
FREN 5350 Section 002
PHIL 5760 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 106
- Enrollment Status:
Closed (5 of 5 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Study in depth of authors or topics from various periods in German literature. Requires no knowledge of German. prereq: No knowledge of German required; cr toward major or minor requires reading in German
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?mrothe+GER5610+Fall2019
- Class Description:
- Michel Foucault's writings have become - albeit always highly contested - important reference points across the humanities, in disciplines such as history, sociology, gender or post-colonial studies, literature or philosophy itself. His idea of theory as a tool box, along with a striking diversity of pursuits, have undoubtedly encouraged such broad reception. A concern for emancipation, however, seems to underpin all of Foucault's theorizing, from his early writings on literature, his reflection on madness and punishment to his late lectures at the Collège de France. It is thus through the lens of emancipation that we will critically survey Foucault's work while resisting the temptation to reduce it to a single coherent system. This perspective will urge us too to explore the centrality and persistence of Foucault's engagement with the philosophies of Kant, Nietzsche, Marx and Heidegger.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- advanced undergraduates, graduates
- Grading:
- participation, essays or paper, brief presentations
- Workload:
- reading: 20 to 50 pages a week
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33069/1199
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 19 April 2019
ClassInfo Links - Fall 2019 German Classes