FREN 6945

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FREN 6945
Aesthetics, Before and Beyond Kant

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This seminar focused on early modern texts by (e.g.) Montaigne, Descartes, Pascal, Diderot, Rousseau. and others. Dealing with early modern anti-and post-humanism, and topics such as: subjectivity, embodiment, alterity, vegetal being, monstrosity, representation, affect, violence, politics, ecology, and nature. With forays into ancient and more modern philosophy, the 20th- and 21st-c. afterlife of early modern issues (Freud; Heidegger; Derrida; Agamben; etc.),and related or homologous problems and modes in the visual arts (e.g., the grotesque; the beautiful and the sublime; sketching; the non-finito; fragments; ruins; e.g.,).


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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 6943

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  3755 FREN 6945   SEM 101

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    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Cordova, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person