ClassInfo - Spring 2023 French Classes

Spring 2023 | FREN 5301 Section 001: Critical Issues in French Studies (65862)

Instructor(s): https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/wallr007" target="lookup">Christophe Wall-Romana
Class Component:: Discussion
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person
Enrollment Requirements:: Graduate Student
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/17/2023 - 05/01/2023

Tue 02:30PM - 05:00PM

UMTC, East Bank

Folwell Hall 119
Enrollment Status:: Open (6 of 15 seats filled)
Also Offered:: Spring 2023

Course Catalog Description:

Introduces the methods of interpretation and critical debates that have shaped and continue to define the discipline of French studies. Provides a practical introduction to graduate-level literary research. prereq: Grad or instr consent

Class Notes:

http://classinfo.umn.edu/?wallr007+FREN5301+Spring2023

Class Description:

French Embodiment Philosophy

This survey course is meant to provide a solid grounding to graduate students from humanities and social sciences fields in 20th- and 21st-century French philosophical thought in which the body, sensation, autoaffection, and perceptual experience overturn dualism. The course is divided in units: 1. Intensive Becoming: Bergson, Deleuze; 2. Corporeal Phenomenology: Merleau-Pont, Levinas; 3. Gendered Deconstruction: Derrida, Nancy, Irigaray; 4. Debasement and Race: Weil, Bataille, Fanon, Mbembe; 5. Affect and Modernity: Epstein, Simondon, Despret, Malabou. We will read through key works to get acquainted with their intellectual tenor and climate and synthesize their central contribution through lectures, joint presentations, journaling, and discussions. Participants can choose various forms of academic labor for the seminar: seminar paper, draft chapter/article, qualifying exam prep, reworked seminar notes, etc. Some readings in French, discussion in English.

Who Should Take This Class?:

Seminar for Master's and doctoral students; reading knowledge of French recommended; discussions in English

Learning Objectives:

Gaining a solid knowledge in recent French philosophy of the body

Textbooks:

https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65862/1233

Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:

3 November 2022

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