Lecture Schedule

Aug. 25:
Introduction. (Please read Heidegger, " The Age of the World Picture" in preparation for this class.)

Sept. 1:
"The Age of the World Picture" and "Letter on Humanism"

Sept. 8:
"Letter on Humanism"

Sept. 15:
Foucault's "Kant's Anthropology" (excerpts), Heidegger, Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, Part IV

Sept 22:
"Kant's Anthropology" and "Man and his doubles"

Sept 29:
The Order of Things, (Preface and Chapters VII and IX)

Oct. 6:
"The Question Concerning Technology"

Oct 13:
"The Question Concerning Technology"

Oct 20:
Discipline and Punish (Part 3, Chapter 2)

Oct 27:
Discipline and Punish (Part 3, Chapter 3)

Nov. 3:
Foucault, "The Subject and Power"
Read Foucault: "The Politics of Truth" and "Ethics: Subjectivity ant Truth"

Nov 10:
The History of Sexuality, Volume I

Nov 17:
The History of Sexuality, Volume I

Nov. 24:
The Use of Pleasure, ("Introduction")

Dec 1:
Conclusion

Required Text

Michel Foucault

Kant's Anthropology (excerpts)

The Order of Things ("Preface and Chapters VII and IX) Vintage Books

History of Sexuality, Volume 1 (excerpts) Random House

Discipline and Punish (excerpts) Random House

The Use of Pleasure: History of Sexuality, Volume II, "Introduction", Pantheon

"The Subject and Power" in Dreyfus and Rabinow (see recommended reading)

Martin Heidegger

Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, Indiana University Press, (Part IV)

"Letter on Humanism" in Heidegger, Basic Writings, Harper & Row, 189-242

The Question Concerning Technology and other Essays, ("The Question Concerning Technology" and "The Age of the World Picture"), Harper & Row

Recommended Texts

Judith Butler, The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection, Stanford University Press, 1997

Hubert L. Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow, Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics, 2nd Edition, University of Chicago Press, l983

Beatrice Han, L'ontologie manquée de Michel Foucault, Millon, l998

Requirements

Class participation and one fifteen page paper due the last meeting of the seminar

Prerequisites

Students must have a substantial background in Heidegger or Foucault, preferably a course on either with Hubert Dreyfus. Every applicant will be required to submit a one page statement on the first day of class detailing his or her preparation for the course and stating the reasons for wanting to take it.