Acerca de este curso: This course examines how the idea of "the modern" develops at the end of the 18th century in European philosophy and literature, and how being modern (or progressive, or hip) became one of the crucial criteria for understanding and evaluating cultural change. Are we still in modernity, or have we moved beyond the modern to the postmodern?
Creada por: Universidad Wesleyana
Enseñado por: Michael S. Roth
| Compromiso | 3-5 hours/week |
| Idioma | English |
| Cómo aprobar | Aprueba todas las tareas calificadas para completar el curso. |
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Programa
SEMANA 1
Course Pages
2 readings
- Reading: Syllabus
- Reading: Course Logistics
SEMANA 2
Intensity and the Ordinary: Sex, Death, Aggression and Guilt
With a focus on Civilization and its Discontents, we examine how Freud’s theories tried to expose profound instincts as they appeared in daily life.
4 videos, 1 reading
- Reading: Intensity and the Ordinary: Sex, Death, Aggression and Guilt--Freud
- Vídeo: Intensity and the Ordinary: Sex, Death, Aggression and Guilt II
- Vídeo: Intensity and the Ordinary: Sex, Death, Aggression and Guilt III
- Vídeo: Intensity and the Ordinary: Sex, Death, Aggression and Guilt IV
SEMANA 3
Intensity and the Ordinary: Art, Loss, Forgiveness
A reading of Virginia Woolf’s modernist novel To the Lighthouse shows how giving up the search for the “really real” can liberate one to attend to the everyday.
4 videos, 1 reading
- Reading: Intensity and the Ordinary: Art, Loss, Forgiveness--Woolf
- Vídeo: Intensity and the Ordinary: Art, Loss, Forgiveness II
- Vídeo: Intensity and the Ordinary: Art, Loss, Forgiveness III
- Vídeo: Intensity and the Ordinary: Art, Loss, Forgiveness IV
Calificado: First Writing Assignment
SEMANA 4
The Postmodern Everyday
We go back to Ralph Waldo Emerson and forward to Ludwig Wittgenstein to consider how forms of life and language games need to foundation to be compelling.
4 videos, 1 reading
- Reading: The Postmodern Everyday--Emerson and Wittgenstein
- Vídeo: The Postmodern Everyday II
- Vídeo: The Postmodern Everyday III
- Vídeo: The Postmodern Everyday IV
Calificado: Second Writing Assignment
SEMANA 5
From Critical Theory to Postmodernism
Through a consideration of Max Horkheimer & Theodor Adorno along with Michel Foucault, we confront the philosophical effort to escape from totality in order to understand the politics of control.
4 videos, 1 reading
- Reading: From Critical Theory to Postmodernism
- Vídeo: From Critical Theory to Postmodernism II
- Vídeo: From Critical Theory to Postmodernism III
- Vídeo: From Critical Theory to Postmodernism IV
Calificado: Third Writing Assignment
SEMANA 6
Paintings II
A very brief consideration of how artists are responding to the loss of foundations to produce work that redefines art.
2 videos
- Vídeo: Paintings II, Part II
SEMANA 7
Postmodern Identities
We examine short pieces by Judith Butler and Slavjo Zizek to understand how identities get formed (and performed) in a world without foundations.
4 videos, 1 reading
- Reading: Postmodern Identities--Butler and Zizek
- Vídeo: Postmodern Identities II
- Vídeo: Postmodern Identities III
- Vídeo: Postmodern Identities IV
Calificado: Fourth Writing Assignment
SEMANA 8
Late-term Review
Review of all the thinkers we have studied in Parts I and II of the class, along with some complementary material.
4 videos
- Vídeo: Late-term Review II
- Vídeo: Late-term Review III
- Vídeo: Late-term Review IV
SEMANA 9
Postmodern Pragmatisms
After postmodern playfulness, or alongside it, we see the resurgence of the pragmatic impulse to return philosophy to real human problems.
3 videos, 1 reading
- Reading: Postmodern Pragmatisms
- Vídeo: Postmodern Pragmatisms II
- Vídeo: Postmodern Pragmatisms III
Calificado: Fifth Writing Assignment
Extra (Optional) Writing Assignment
1 item
- Peer Review: Extra (Optional) Writing Assignment
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Calificaciones y revisiones
After my experience on Part 1, I chose to only watch the lectures. I really enjoyed them. Prof Roth's delivery is excellent. The course gave me much food for thought, but I couldn't face writing the essays.
The reading timings should be set to more realistic values, to give us students a true idea of what we are committing to.
A very enlightening approach showering rich content through diverse methodologies. Thanks a lot
It was a great learning experience.
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I came away from the course with a much better understanding of why the world is the way it is today. The diversity of thought offered by great thinkers in featured readings is amazing. Highly recommended!