| 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. |