FREN 8230 is also offered in Fall 2024
FREN 8230 is also offered in Spring 2024
FREN 8230 is also offered in Fall 2023
FREN 8230 is also offered in Spring 2023
Spring 2024 | FREN 8230 Section 001: Critical Issues: Criticism and Thought -- Alien Reason (67127)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 9 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 18
- Enrollment Status:
Open (2 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Critical issues relating to works in criticism/thought related to French/Francophone literature, philosophy or culture.
- Class Notes:
- AI, UFOs, religious neo-extremism, pharmacology, migrations, and the Anthropocene all signal the massive and dizzying intrusion of new forms of reason, challenging and outstripping ideas of the human, Eurocentric humanism, and global citizenship. French-speaking cultures and thought have been particularly attuned to interplays or reason, unreason, posthumanism, and non-human 'intelligence' from Christine de Pizan and René Descartes to Charles Baudelaire and Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Henri Bergson and Georges Bataille, Jean Epstein and Niki de Saint-Phalle, Jacques Derrida and Achille Mbembe, and Gilbert Simondon, Vinciane Despret, Louis Bec and Paul Preciado. Michel Foucault's famous 1966 text on Maurice Blanchot, "The Thought from Outside," can serve as an opening by making language itself into an alien at the heart of the subject. This seminar explores various currents of French alt-reason, traversing and entangling philosophy, politics, ethics, art, race, religious thought, ecology, anthropology, psychology, indigeneity, sexuality, and parascientific thought. The stakes of the seminar lie in how to retool humanistic training at this hinge moment when rational thinking - the basis of academic research and teaching - must begin negotiating unprecedented perspectives and mutations. Some of the key themes participants will be invited to examine and discuss are animality, transcendence, vitalism, extraterrestrial beings, gender, transidentity, exoticism, racism, altered states, algorithmic informatics, and cyborgs.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67127/1243
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