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Instructor: Hoover (Fall 2007)


 Assignments listed as "on-line" are available only on Coe's on-campus intranet. 

Current Assignments
  • Thurs., Dec. 6: Let's aim for 20 minutes discussion each on: Parekh + Akhtar; Beltrami + Young; Davis + Mouffe.

 Previous Assignments

  • Tues., Dec. 4: We will discuss Baudrillard + Harwood on Baudrillard (continued from last time) AND we will discuss Taylor + Roth on Taylor AND we will try to also discuss Parekh + Akhtar on Parekh.
  • Thurs., Nov. 29: We will discuss Rorty + Burgess on Rorty (left over from last time) AND we will discuss Ricoeur + Ebot on Ricouer and Lyotard AND we will try to also discuss Baudrillard + Harwood on Baudrillard. {All new readings were passed out at end of class].
  • Tues., Nov. 27: Bartky, "Foucault, Femininity and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power"  + Rorty, Science as Solidarity + Michael's Paper
  • Tues., Nov. 20: Foucault, Discipline and Punish, (read up to end of "Docile Bodies")
  • Thurs., Nov. 15: Foucault, Discipline and Punish, pp. 104-169.
  • Tues., Nov. 13: Foucault, Discipline and Punish, pp. 32-103.
  • Thurs., Nov. 8: Foucault, Discipline and Punish, pp. 3-31.
  • Tues., Nov. 6: EXAM
  • Thurs., Nov. 1: Derrida, "The Postcard" (finish selection)
  • Tues., Oct. 30: Derrida, "The Postcard" (read at least through p. 19)
  • Thurs., Oct. 25: Derrida, "Plato's Pharmacy"
  • Tues., Oct. 23: Derrida, "Structure, Sign and Play"
  • Thurs., Oct. 18: Lyotard, "Lessons in Paganism", pp. 1-9 (middle) + Bring questions about Lyotard material.
  • Thurs., Oct. 11: NO CLASS.
  • Tues., Oct. 9: Lyotard, Postmodern Condition, pp. 37-47 + 60-67.
  • Thurs., Oct. 4: Lyotard, Postmodern Condition, pp. 11-37
  • Tues., Oct. 2: Lyotard, Postmodern Condition, pp. xxiii-xxv + pp. 3-11.
  • Thurs., Sept. 27: No class meeting. EXAM DUE Friday, Sept. 28.
  • Tues., Sept. 25: Ashley, "Habermas and the Completion of the 'Project of Modernity'"
  • Thurs., Sept. 20: Habermas, "Modernity--An Incomplete Project"
  • Tues., Sept. 18: Habermas, "Technology and Scence as Ideology"
  • Thurs., Sept. 13: Horkheimer and Adorno, "The Dialectic of Enlightenment"
  • Tues., Sept. 11: Lacan, "The Mirror Stage" +"The Signification of the Phallus"
  • Thurs., Sept. 6: Levi-Strauss "The Elementary Structures of Kinship"
  • Tues., Sept. 4: Barthes, "The Structuralist Activity
  • Thurs., Aug. 30: Saussure, "General Course in Linguistics"
  • Tues., Aug. 28: No assignment for first class. 
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