HSTCMP 509 A: Foucault and History

Autumn 2018
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Meeting:
M 3:30pm - 5:20pm / SMI 203E
SLN:
22824
Section Type:
Seminar
Instructor:
ADD CODE REQUIRED. ADD CODES ARE AVAILABLE FROM THE HISTORY GRADUATE OFFICE. REGISTRATION IS LIMITED TO GRADUATE STUDENTS ONLY. NON-HISTORY GRADUATE STUDENTS MUST HAVE THE PERMISSION OF THE FACULTY INSTRUCTOR TO REGISTER FOR THIS COURSE. UNDERGRADUATES AND AUDITORS ARE NOT ELIGIBLE TO REGISTER FOR HISTORY GRADUATE COURSES.
Catalog Description:
Addresses the usefulness of Foucault for thinking about history and thinking historically. Discusses questions of method, politics and ethics of critique, and overview relationships among power, knowledge, and subjectivity in context of modernity that undergirds Foucault's writings. Focuses on a set of Foucault's lectures on war, race, security, biopolitics, and on ethics of truth-telling in lectures he gave at the College de France. Offered: A.
Credits:
5.0
Status:
Active
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