GERST 6615

Philosophy for Anti- or Non-Philosophers

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2026-2027 Catalog.

Old ‘anti-philosophy’ revised appealing to Wittgenstein; ‘non-philosophy’ in Althusserian legacy (Badiou, Žižek). Challenges from classical studies (Loraux, Detienne, Vernant, ‘Hermes the thief’ (Brown), political economy, theology, anthropology, psychoanalysis, natural sciences and mathematics (STEM and AI), gender studies, creative arts, and within philosophy itself: propositions that ‘philosophy’ be replaced by ‘thinking’ (Heidegger) and ‘everyone is a philosopher’ (Gramsci). Philosophical history articulated as ‘his-story’ (Weil, Beauvoir, Kofman, Irigaray), against method’ (Feyerabend),’ ‘method v. truth‘ (Gadamer), ‘transcritique’ (Karatani) ‘writing of the disaster’ (Blanchot), ‘creation and anarchy’ (Agamben), ‘the unnamable’ (Beckett), ‘Saint Paul, a screenplay’ (Pasolini); throughout, ‘the question of style’ (Gramsci) or ‘literary style’ (Silva).

Enrollment Priority Primarily for: graduate students. Open to advance undergraduate students with permission from instructor.

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