Class Id: 9005
Days: W
Start Time: 01:30 PM
End Time: 04:20 PM
Building: DICKH
Room: 207
Course Id: 4010
Departments and Numbers: HIS 539
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Title: Modernity and its Critics in the Modern Middle East
Description: An introduction to the literature about the critique of modernity which underlies some of the key recent interventions in Middle Eastern studies. Extending the work of Foucault, Derrida, Heidegger and Latour to the non-West, the course examines how moving beyond the modern opens it up to new kinds of investigation. Course traces the heterogeneity that constituted, paradoxically, a totalizing language which awarded the experiences of Western modernity a universal role through a consideration of texts on technology, religion, the city, democracy, and gender in such places as Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Egypt, Palestine, Israel, and Lebanon.
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Professors: On Barak
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