![]() ![]() Students are required to prepare for, attend, and participate in all class meetings. Third, in the spirit of Deleuzian concept production, it seeks to nurture and help produce informed and original scholarship aimed at, and appropriate for, professional journal publication and/or professional conference presentation.įormat: This course will function as a graduate seminar. ![]() Second, it aims to provide opportunities for critical assessment of the philosophical strengths, weaknesses, and contemporary values and uses of this philosophy. First, it seeks to develop an in-depth and nuanced understanding of the thought of Gilles Deleuze and the philosophical lineages and context of that thought. Objectives: This course has three principal goals. Along the way, students will be encouraged to review and utilize some small part of the large contemporary literature that draws on Deleuze’s thought. L'Anti-OEdipe, 1972) and A Thousand Plateaus ( Capitalisme et Schizophrénie 2. In addition, some attention will be paid to the ways in which these two volumes both inform, and are illuminated by, Deleuze’s collaborations with Félix Guattari in Anti-Oedipus ( Capitalisme et Schizophrénie 1. However, the focus and great majority of seminar energy and time will be spent on two crucial works: Difference and Repetition ( Différence et répétition, 1968) and The Logic of Sense ( Logique du sens, 1969). Some course readings will be drawn from Deleuze’s work on thinkers such as Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, Bergson, Proust, and Foucault as well as some of Deleuze’s other writings such as What is Philosophy? ( Qu'est-ce que la philosophie?, 1991) and interviews. Particulars: PHIL 540 - 20th Century Philosophy Seminar: Deleuze: Difference and Sense Stuhr, W 1 :00PM-4:00 PMĬontent: This seminar is an in-depth study of the ontological, epistemological, and political thought of Gilles Deleuze. Recommended readings present engagements that build on or criticize Hegel’s text and its legacy. We will discuss Hegel’s views on modernity, knowledge, action, politics, history, and philosophy, paying particular attention to the role of negativity and dialectics in Hegel’s text. Particulars: PHIL 530 - 19th Century Philosophy Seminar: Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit Zambrana, TH 1 :00PM-4:00 PMĬontent: This course will serve as an introduction to Hegel’s idealism and some strands of its reception history through a reading of his 1807 Phenomenology of Spirit. ![]() Starting, then, from the problem of “sophistic metaphysics,” this seminar will be dedicated to a close reading of the two dialogues, analyzing their attempts to define knowledge and logos, the method of diaeresis in the Sophist, and the attempt to find a middle path between Parmenides and Heraclitus through the interweaving of being and non-being, and so contribute to the understanding of philosophy and the philosopher promised but never explicitly delivered by the Eleatic Stranger. Sophistry is only possible on the non-sophistic premise that beings have a nature in themselves that can then be distorted by sophistic image-making. The Sophist’sinterpretation of non-being as otherness and thesis that only the interpenetration of being and non-being can account for the possibility of images and so of error, not only explain the possibility of false statements as deceptive images of the truth, but thereby the possibility of the sophist as the deceptive imitator of the knower. The demonstration of the practical possibility of sophistry amounts to its theoretical refutation. While the Theaetetus ends in aporia, unable to fully explain the promising definition of knowledge as “true opinion with logos,” and so cannot fully overcome the challenge of sophistry, the aim of the Sophist is to show that sophistry as such is only possible thanks to metaphysical assumptions that it rejects. 156a), and so prepares us for the Sophist’s entry into the gigantomachia peri tês ousias or “battle of the giants about being” ( Soph. They are united, first of all, by the participation of the young mathematician who gives his name to the first dialogue, but more fundamentally by the discussion of the relativist thesis of Protagoras, which, as reconstructed by Socrates and returned to its Heraclitean roots, argues that everything is the product of the collision of active and passive forces and nothing exists in itself ( Tht. PHIL 500 - Ancient Philosophy Seminar: Confronting the Metaphysics of Sophistry: Plato’s Theaetetus and Sophist Marrin, M 4 :00PM-7:00 PMĬontent: Within Plato’s “trilogy” of the Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman, the Theaetetus and Sophist form a natural pair.
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