Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE POSTMODERN BREAK IN FRENCH PHILOSOPHY ***** 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. Emphasis on the conflict between humanism and anti-humanism. Includes Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, Levinas, Castoriadis, and others.