COML 3542

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COML 3542
Homo Oeconomicus

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

This course examines the economic forces at work in defining and configuring the modern subject, from Adam Smith through Marx and Nietzsche, Simmel and Weber, up to the current neoliberal subject.  The course will investigate figures (as both tropes and subjects) of the human conceived according to three economic paradigms: exchange, debt, and interest. The course will focus on both literary and theoretical sources, including examinations of guiding metaphors (the invisible hand, Schuld as both debt and guilt); the intersection of religious and secular economies; pacts with the devil; economies of salvation/redemption; figures of money/value.

When Offered Fall.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 3610, GOVT 3606

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17054 COML 3542   SEM 101

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