Program
A detailed day-by-day program is available as a PDF.
Course Readings and Lectures
WEEK ONE (JULY 13-17)
MIGUEL DE BEISTEGUI: The Contemporary Subject of Politics: Homo Economicus
Bibliography for the course:
Primary texts:
M. Foucault, Naissance de la biopolitique. Cours au Collège de France (1978-1979). Paris: Gallimard/Seuil, 2004.
G. Bataille, La part maudite and La limite de l’utile (Fragments), in Œuvres completes, Volume VII. Paris: Gallimard, 1976.
Secondary texts:
F. A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty. London & New York: Routledge, 2006.
G. Agamben, Il Regno e la Gloria. Homo Sacer II, 2. Neri Pozza Editore, 2007.
Lectures:
- Maria Acosta: “On Forgiveness and Politics: Thinking through Hegel and Derrida”
- Tina Chanter: “Antigone’s Affects: Political Legacies”
- Antonia Grunenberg: “Subject and World: On the Conditionality of Hannah Arendt’s Concept of Subjectivity”.
- Charles Scott: “Political Subjects”
- Francoise Dastur: “Merleau-Ponty: History and Dialectics”
- Andrew Benjamin: “Rosso Fiorentino: Philosophy of Art/History of Art” (Andrew will give an evening lecture on Fiorentino. Some of Fiorentino’s work is located in Citta di Castello)
Text Seminar Leaders:
- Roger Berkowitz
- Andrew Cutrofello
- Andrew Dilts
- Hernando Estevez
- Bernard Freydberg
- Theodore George
- Kathryn Gines
- Avery Goldman
- Sean Kirkland
- Elaine Miller
- Herman Siemens
- Francois Raffoul
WEEK TWO (JULY 20-24)
SIMON CRITCHLEY: THE SUBJECT OF POLITICS IN ROUSSEAU, ALTHUSSER, BADIOU
Bibliography for the course:
Rousseau, Social Contract. (Simon notes: I don’t mind which editions, and the French is obviously better, but the Gourevitch translation is the most accurate, though Cranston is elegant. I’ll be mostly quoting Gourevitch.)
Althusser, ‘The Social Contract (The Discrepancies)” in Politics and History: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Marx (Verso, 1992)
Badiou, Being and Event, Meditation 32, “On Rousseau,” (Continuum, 2005)
Lectures:
- Stefano Micali: “Dispositif and Subjectivity”
- Richard Lee: “The Sovereign Future”
- Donatella di Cesare: “Alien Residents: Towards a Politics of Living”
- Hans Ruin: “Circumcising a universal subject: technologies of the self in Paul and Seneca”
- Gianni Vattimo: “Pro and Contra Universalism”
Text Seminar Leaders:
- Maria Cavalcante
- Duane Davis
- Steve De Caroli
- Peter Gratton
- Paul Livingston
- Bill Martin
- Kevin Miles
- Ann Murphy
- Anne O’Byrne
- Frederike Rese
- Adriel Trott
- Robert Vallier
- Gert-Jan Van der Heiden
- Laura Werner
- Sanem Yazicioglu
WEEK THREE (JULY 27-JULY 31)
DAN SMITH: THE SUBJECT OF POLITICS IN DELEUZE
Bibliography for the course:
Deleuze, Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus, chapter 3, “Savages, Barbarians, Civilized Men,” pp.139-271; and A Thousand Plateaus, plateau 12, “1227: Treatise on Nomadology–The War Machine,” pp. 351-423; and plateau 13, “7000 B.C.: Apparatus of Capture,” pp. 424-473.
Lectures:
- Gunter Figal: “Trusting Persons and Things”
- David Wood: “Beyond Human Politics”
- Robert Gooding-Williams: “Tommy Shelby’s Political Foundationalism: A Critique”
- John Mullarkey: “Deleuze, Badiou and Animal Subjects”
Text Seminar Leaders:
- Brett Adkins
- Joshua Andreson
- Jonathan Dronsfeld
- Samir Haddad
- Martin Hagglund
- Mary Beth Mader
- Darrell Moore
- Joanna Polley
- John Potevi
- Gary Shapiro
- Fredrika Spindler
- Cory Wimberley