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Academic Year 2004/2005

Refiguring the Body
COL 212 SP
Crosslistings:
WMST 213

Western thought has traditionally ignored or devalued the body in accounts of subjectivity. Over the last century, however, there has been increasing recognition of the crucial role it plays in relation to perception, cognition, action, and being. In this course we will trace the epistemological shift by exploring a range of foundational phenomenological, psychoanalytic, genealogical, neurological, and feminist theories of embodied subjectivity.

MAJOR READINGS

Readings may be drawn from (but are not limited to) the following: Merleau-Ponty, Freud, Lacan, Sacks, Nietzshe, Foucault, Deleuze, Kristeva, Irigaray, Braidotti, Butler, and Grosz.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Probably three 5-7 page papers.

COURSE FORMAT: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA COL    Grading Mode: Student Option   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-21-2005

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