WEEK FOUR: POSTSTRUCTURALISM -- FROM DERRIDA TO MICHEL FOUCAULT
Monday, January 27
- J. Hillis Miller, "Thomas Hardy, Jacques Derrida, and 'The Dislocation of
Souls,'" in From Theory to Practice, ed. K. M. Newton (New York: St.
Martin's P, 1988). (on reserve)
- J. Hillis Miller, "Heart of Darkness Revisited," in Heart of
Darkness, second ed., ed. Ross C. Murfin (New York: Bedford, 1996). (on
reserve)
- Joan W. Scott, "Deconstructing Equality versus Difference," The Postmodern
Turn, ed. Steven Seidman (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994): 282-98.
(on reserve)
- For a handout on these readings, click here.
- For students' responses, click here.
Wednesday, January 29
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Preface to On the Genealogy of Morals, ed. Walter
Kaufmann (New York: Vintage, 1969). (on reserve)
- Michel Foucault, "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History," The Foucault Reader,
ed. Paul Rabinow: 76-100.
- For a quick sketch of Foucault's life and career, click here.
- For a handout on "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History," click
here.
- For students' responses, click here.
Friday, January 31
- Michel Foucault, "Truth and Power," The Foucault Reader: 51-75.
- Michel Foucault, "What is an Author?" The Foucault Reader: 101-20.
- For a reader's guide to "What is an Author?," click here.
- For a handout on these readings, click here.
WEEK FIVE: MICHEL FOUCAULT -- CRIMINALITY AND SEXUALITY
Monday, February 3
- Michel Foucault, "The Body of the Condemned," Discipline and Punish,
trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: Vintage, 1979): 3-31. (on reserve)
- Michel Foucault, "What Calls for Punishment?" from Foucault Live, ed.
Sylvere Lotringer (New York: Semiotext(e), 1989): 279-92. (on reserve)
- For a handout on these readings, click here.
- For students' responses, click here.
Wednesday, February 5
- Michel Foucault, "We 'Other Victorians" and "The Repressive Hypothesis,"
Foucault Reader: 292-329.
- Michel Foucault, "On the Genealogy of Ethics," The Foucault Reader:
340-72.
- For a handout on these readings, click here.
- For students' responses, click here.
Friday, February 7
NO CLASS -- WINTER WEEKEND!!
WHAT NEXT?
revised October 1, 1997
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