关于此课程： 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?
授课大纲
第 1 周
Course Pages
2 个阅读材料
- Reading: Syllabus
- Reading: Course Logistics
第 2 周
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 个视频, 1 个阅读材料
- Reading: Intensity and the Ordinary: Sex, Death, Aggression and Guilt--Freud
- 视频: Intensity and the Ordinary: Sex, Death, Aggression and Guilt II
- 视频: Intensity and the Ordinary: Sex, Death, Aggression and Guilt III
- 视频: Intensity and the Ordinary: Sex, Death, Aggression and Guilt IV
第 3 周
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 个视频, 1 个阅读材料
- Reading: Intensity and the Ordinary: Art, Loss, Forgiveness--Woolf
- 视频: Intensity and the Ordinary: Art, Loss, Forgiveness II
- 视频: Intensity and the Ordinary: Art, Loss, Forgiveness III
- 视频: Intensity and the Ordinary: Art, Loss, Forgiveness IV
已评分: First Writing Assignment
第 4 周
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 个视频, 1 个阅读材料
- Reading: The Postmodern Everyday--Emerson and Wittgenstein
- 视频: The Postmodern Everyday II
- 视频: The Postmodern Everyday III
- 视频: The Postmodern Everyday IV
已评分: Second Writing Assignment
第 5 周
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 个视频, 1 个阅读材料
- Reading: From Critical Theory to Postmodernism
- 视频: From Critical Theory to Postmodernism II
- 视频: From Critical Theory to Postmodernism III
- 视频: From Critical Theory to Postmodernism IV
已评分: Third Writing Assignment
第 6 周
Paintings II
A very brief consideration of how artists are responding to the loss of foundations to produce work that redefines art.
2 个视频
- 视频: Paintings II, Part II
第 7 周
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 个视频, 1 个阅读材料
- Reading: Postmodern Identities--Butler and Zizek
- 视频: Postmodern Identities II
- 视频: Postmodern Identities III
- 视频: Postmodern Identities IV
已评分: Fourth Writing Assignment
第 8 周
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 个视频
- 视频: Late-term Review II
- 视频: Late-term Review III
- 视频: Late-term Review IV
第 9 周
Postmodern Pragmatisms
After postmodern playfulness, or alongside it, we see the resurgence of the pragmatic impulse to return philosophy to real human problems.
3 个视频, 1 个阅读材料
- Reading: Postmodern Pragmatisms
- 视频: Postmodern Pragmatisms II
- 视频: Postmodern Pragmatisms III
已评分: Fifth Writing Assignment
Extra (Optional) Writing Assignment
1 个项目
- Взаимная оценка: Extra (Optional) Writing Assignment
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Wesleyan University
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评分和审阅
Amazing content!
amazing lectures and challenging essay topics that really help you absorb the material.
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!
Thank you for this inspiring diving into modern and postmodern philosophy. It helped a lot with filling gaps and providing new leads to develop and research