The Critical Essay

Professor

John Drabinski

Course Number

SS - 0245 - 1 (135764)

Course Description

This course offers close reading and discussion of ten critical theory essays by authors from the 19th and 20th century. Figures to be discussed: Kant, Nietzsche, Gramsci, Heidegger, Althusser, Bhabha, Derrida, Foucault, Spivak, and Walcott. These essays address theoretical issues of reason, history, humanism, hegemony, identity, nationalism - all of which are central to contemporary literary, cultural, and political theory. The aim of our course will be to come to terms with the vocabulary of these various thinkers, as well as to engage the foundations of contemporary critical theory. This course satisfies Division I distribution requirements. WRI PRS REA MCP

Progress

Completed