| Description |
This course examines how, in the era of emerging 'sciences of Man,' Enlightenment writers circumscribed notions of self and other, raising questions of fraudulent subjects, the naturalization of identity and difference, and the invention of privacy. We consider such questions as: In becoming an object of knowledge, can persons only be known as objects, and no longer as subjects? How do the figures of synecdoche, metalepsis and catachresis, articulate power relations by, and on, the person who speaks? |