| Description |
A broad overview of contemporary literary and cultural theory. Starting with some foundational texts (Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche), course is structured around three inter-linked analytics to read across diverse interventions in critical theory: Structure (Saussure, Althusser, Marx, Derrida, Foucault), Subjectivity (Freud, Lacan, Butler, Fanon, Spivak, Bourdieu), and the twin problematics of Aesthetics/Politics (Adorno, Benjamin, Jameson, Said, Buck-Morss). Among the issues addressed are language and authorship, ideology and the state, sexuality and performance, sovereignty and power. |