Listed in: Political Science, as POSC-80
Thomas L. Dumm (Section 01)
[PT] A consideration of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Western political theory. Topics to be considered include the fate of modernity, identity and difference, power, representation, freedom, and the state. This year’s readings may include works by the following authors: Freud, Weber, Benjamin, Heidegger, Arendt, Derrida, Foucault, Berlin, Butler, Connolly, and Agamben. This course fulfills the requirement for an advanced seminar in Political Science.
Limited to 20 students. Spring semester. Professor Dumm.
Section 01
M 02:00 PM - 04:30 PM CLAR 100
| ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic writings from Being and time (1927) to the task of thinking (1964) | Martin Heidegger | Amherst Books | TBD | |||
| The Human Condition | Hannah Arendt | Amherst Books | TBD | |||
| The birth of biopolitics: lectures at the College de France, 1978-79 | Michel Foucault | Amherst Books | TBD | |||
| The crisis of parliamentary democracy | Carl Schmitt | Amherst Books | TBD | |||
| Political theology: four chapters on the concept of sovereignty | Carl Schmitt | Amherst Books | TBD | |||
| Homo sacer: sovereign power and bare life | Giorgio Agamben | Amherst Books | TBD | |||
| The Oedipus cycle: an English version | Sophocles | 1977 version | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| LinkThe ethics of psychoanalysis, 1959-1960 | Jacques Lacan | Amherst Books | TBD | |||
| LinkPrecarious life : the powers of mourning and violence | Judith Butler | Amherst Books | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.