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9529 - L'écriture de l'esprit - As the course attempts to consider whether or not we have a mind for spirit, it approaches German 19th-century thought (Fr. Schlegel, Hegel, Schelling, Fichte, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche), as well as more recent work in Continental philosophy (Heidegger, Deleuze (& Guattari), Derrida, Kofman, Marion, Nancy).The course aspires to provide grounding in some productive directions in critical theory, and address some of the following issues: the differences between Geist, esprit, and mind; writing and speaking; metaphor (philosophy as literature); repetition and difference; the age of the concept and the "(20th) century of language;" framing; otherness; negative theology; the body without organs; the subject and its afterhood; the thinking of the outside; ghosts, gifts and communities. Class discussions will also refer to such authors as Agamben, Badiou, Bakhtin, Barthes, Bataille, Blanchot, Cioran, de Certeau, de Man, Foucault, Freud, Husserl, Jakobson, Kant, Kierkegaard, Lacan, Lacoue-Labarthe, L?-Strauss, Lyotard, Marx, Merleau-Ponty, Nietzsche, Rorty, Serres.
