[Cwgrad-announcements] Graduate Seminar in Contemporary Theory

[Robin Russin]

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>> To faculty graduate advisors, staff graduate advisors, and others,
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>> Please distribute the description below of Prof. John Kim's  
>> graduate seminar on Contemporary Critical Theory to all graduate  
>> students in your department.
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>> Thank you so much.
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>> All best,
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>> Margie Waller
>> Graduate Advisor in Comparative Literature
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> Contemporary Critical Theory:  An Introduction
> CPLT 215A
> Spring 2007
> Tuesdays, 5:10 – 8:00PM
> HMNSS 1502
> This course offers an introductory survey to a group of discourses  
> collectively referred to as “critical theory.” While this term  
> initially designated a 1930s philosophical movement begun by Max  
> Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno at the Institute for Social Research  
> (the “Frankfurt School”), it refers today to a wide range of  
> meta-discourses whose diversity of approaches defies unified  
> description beyond their common concern for challenging the  
> “given” or “immutable.” Though frequently associated with  
> structuralism, post-structuralism and psychoanalysis, among many  
> other approaches, critical theory is best thought of as a mode of  
> thinking whose central task is to pose questions while  
> simultaneously also explaining why these questions should be posed.  
> However, insofar as critical theory poses questions without  
> necessarily offering definitive “answers,” it has also become  
> associated with “difficult” or “impenetrable” writing.  As  
> such, the aim of this course is to help graduate students not only  
> in familiarizing themselves with the conceptual vocabulary of  
> critical theory but also in developing their own theoretical  
> questions. Readings include Saussure, Benveniste, Althusser, Fanon,  
> Foucault, Derrida, de Man, Butler, Chow and Žižek, among others.
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