Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 OR FREN 312

Description: POSTMODERN BREAK IN FRENCH PHILOSOPHY ***** 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. ***** PREREQUISITES: 311 or 312 or placement exam or AP credit or permission of instructor. *****