Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: THE POSTMODERN BREAK IN FRENCH PHILOSOPHY

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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 and the post-history conjecture. Emphasis on the conflict between humanism and anti-humanism, including in its theological and aesthetical ramifications: Foucault, Lyotard, Levinas, Castoriadis, and others.