Problems of Contemporary Philosophy (PHIL*6200) | College of Arts

Problems of Contemporary Philosophy (PHIL*6200)

Term: Winter 2016

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In this course we will focus on the writings of the brilliant 20th-century thinker, Michel Foucault (1926-1984). Students will learn and come to appreciate the significance and usefulness of some of his central concepts: episteme, power-knowledge, discourse analysis, panopticism, governmentality, dispositifs, biopower, critical history, genealogy, archaeology.

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