Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: MARX, BATAILLE, BAUDRILLARD, POSTMODERNITY

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Taught in English. Exploration of the shift from a Marxist political economy of class struggle, through Bataille's "general economy" (economic activity as a "cosmic phenomenon") to Baudrillard's "indetermination of the code" and "simulation" in postmodernity. Texts by Marx, Mauss, Bataille, Athusser, Ernest Mandel, and Baudrillard.