Description: Taught in English. Background in, and differences from, Saussure, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Husserl, Hegel, Bataille, Foucault, Lacan, Marx. Contributions to globalization and postcolonial theory, identity politics, theology/secularism debates and comparative religious studies. Myths re "postmodernism" (in philosophy of science), "relativism," death of the subject," "theory" and "cultural studies."