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Course Schedule - Spring Semester 2010
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ANTH 616 001 (CRN: 24085)
CLASSICS IN SOCIAL THEORY
Long Title: CLASSICAL SOCIAL THEORY AND ITS ECOLOGIES
Department: Anthropology
Instructor: Boyer, Dominic C.
Meeting: 2:00PM - 5:00PM M (11-JAN-2010 - 23-APR-2010)
Part of Term: Full Term
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Section Max Enrollment: 20
Section Enrolled: 6
Enrollment data as of: 15-MAY-2024 8:17AM
Final Exam: No Final Exam
Description: This seminar explores classical texts, problems, and arguments in western social theory from the mid 18th century until the 1920s. The course approaches social theory from the perspective of the anthropology of knowledge, investigating both key documents (drawn from Vico, Herder, Montesquieu and Smith to Marx, Durkheim, Freud, and Peirce, among others) as well as the historical, social, and institutional conditions that enabled, shaped, and specialized the intellectual project of social theory during this period. We will also pay attention to how the analytics and problems of classical social theory continue to inform contemporary research in semiotic, praxiological, phenomenological and psychoanalytic anthropology.