![]() ![]() Reading of selections from thinkers such as Canguilhem, Fanon, Foucault, Klossowski, Nietzsche, Rosenzweig, and Sontag. Most time spent on phenomenological approaches to illness not grounded in aspiration to bodily health or normative logic. Review of narrative medicine and medical life writing. Consideration of textbook introductions to bioethics that draw on work in analytic philosophy as well as Kantian ethical theory. Survey of three distinct approaches to philosophy of health and illness. COM LIT 290 – “Contemporary Theories of Criticism – Bioethics, Narrative, and Phenomenology: Approaches to Philosophy of Illness” ![]() Study draws on work of Fanon, Freud, Gilman, Lacan, and various interlocutors in Black critical thought. Study reckons with afterlives of slavery that animate blackness haunting psychoanalytic tradition. At worst, psychoanalysis has lent its scientific authority to sanctioning of anti-Black violence–including arguments that colored race, if freed, is susceptible to psychosis. Blackness arguably functioned as analog for racialization of Jews in late 19th- and early 20th-century Vienna, when psychoanalysis itself was denigrated as Jewish science that nevertheless grappled with unconscious fallout of anti-Semitic violence–itself bolstered by racial fantasies of blackness. Despite Freud’s Jewish background and anti-Semitism that structured psychic life of his analysands, psychoanalysis has been, at best, fraught with underdeveloped questions about race and racism. Since its conception at the advent of the 20th century, psychoanalysis has been preoccupied with race and racism. COM LIT 290 – “Contemporary Theories of Criticism – Race and Psychoanalysis” Part two of two-part study, designed for MFA and PhD students participating in the graduate certificate Program in Experimental Critical Theory. Study also asks what comparison is in asymmetrical and heterotopic situations and what its conditions of possibility are–and crucially today, its effects on world. From synchronic transnational (spatial) and network paradigms of world, study asks whether comparison is viable transperiodically but not chronologically. From comparative history and anthropology to world literature and global history, study asks how comparison disrupts and transforms modes of linear and teleological thinking. Study takes disposition to think in comparison and by comparison, as fundamental way of looking at world, through provocative contrasts and unexpected fluidities. For information on course offerings in upcoming academic quarters, please visit the public Schedule of Classes.įor a complete listing of courses offered by the Department of Comparative Literature, please visit the UCLA General Catalog.ĬOM LIT 290 – “Contemporary Theories of Criticism: Experimental Critical Theory – Comparative Thinking”
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