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Philosophy 290-2
Wed. 2:00-5:00 PM,
130 Wheeler

Professors Judith Butler, Hubert Dreyfus, with visiting Professor Beatrice Han from the Philosophy Department, University of Essex

This course will examine Foucault's radical critique of humanism and its consequences for thinking about the subject and power. We begin by considering Heidegger's rejection of humanism, specifically his critique of the subject as the ground of intelligibility of everything. We will consider what this overturning of the metaphysics of the subject implies for rethinking the human and the nature and danger of totalizing technological practices. We will then turn to Foucault's parallel critique of the subject, the study of "man", and disciplinary bio-power, and ask whether a new view of the subject and power can be developed in the aftermath of the humanism that Foucault and Heidegger so strongly criticize.

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