Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: POSTMODERN BREAK IN FRENCH PHILOSOPHY

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 OR FREN 312 or placement test or permission of instructor

Description: A study of the questioning of philosophical modernity (starting with Descartes and the Enlightenment philosophers) by structuralist and poststructuralist thinkers and theorists of the postmodern condition. Among contemporary authors studied will be Lacan, Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, and others.