FREN 4140
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FREN 4140
Course Description
Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025.
Western modernity and humanism have been the target of decisive critique over the past decades in philosophy and theory. But these trends are not contemporary in any simple sense; they have strange affinities with the premodern modes of writing and thinking put forth in the Essays (1580-95) of Michel de Montaigne. This seminar interrogates the contemporaneity of Montaigne by rereading the Essays in dialogue with influential philosophers and theorists, such as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, Adorno, Heidegger, Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Deleuze, Agamben, Derrida, and Haraway. While studying Montaigne's untimely place in intellectual history, we will examine related aesthetic modes and explore how the unprecedented (anti)philosophical gesture of the Essay resonates with posthumanist styles and questions in ecological thought, philosophy, politics, and indigenous studies.
When Offered Fall.
Distribution Category (ALC-AS) (CA-AG, LA-AG)
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 6140
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Klarman Hall K111
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Cordova, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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