Description: Background in Frued, Marx, Saussure, then Levi-Strauss, Benveniste, Althusser, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Lacan Bataille, Fanon, Barthes, Foucault, Derrida, Baudrillard, Irigaray, Lyotard, Deleuze. Taught over 2 semesters, in English. Requirements: FREN 589 Part I is desirable but not indispensable.