GOVT 4726
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Classes
GOVT 4726
Course Description
Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2016-2017.
Punitive Society examines the phenomena of mass incarceration and the death penalty as represented in philosophy, law, literature and film. We will address the genealogy of punishment, the absence of a philosophically rigorous Abolitionist argument in the Western tradition and the racial politics of the carceral system (what Michelle Alexander has called, "the new Jim Crow,") Have literature and film provided more pertinent critiques of incarceration and the death penalty? We will focus on the U.S. and France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as our cases. Texts will include works by theorists Cesare Beccaria, Rousseau, Kant, Foucault, Derrida, Camus, Robert Badinter, Michelle Alexander, Loic Wacquant; writers Victor Hugo, Albert French, Ernest Gaines, Jean Genet; and filmmakers: Robert Bresson, Lars von Trier, Ozu, Fritz Lang.
When Offered Fall.
Distribution Category (CA-AS)
Course Subfield (PT)
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 4726
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Uris Hall 260
Instructors
Rubenstein, D
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Additional Information
Government seniors and juniors given preference. This course fulfills the government senior seminar requirement.
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