Spring 2008 • HUM 597 B • 1 Credit: C/NC

Moralism, Tolerance, and Neoliberalism: A Micro-seminar Reading Wendy Brown

Instructor: Gillian Harkins (English)

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Wednesdays, April 2, April 9, April 16, April 30
2:00 - 3:50 pm
Communications 202

Registration is open on a first-come first-served basis through MyUW.

In preparation for the UW visit of Katz Lecturer Wendy Brown (Political Science and Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley) the week of April 21-25, this micro-seminar will devote close study to several selections from Brown's recent work.

We will begin by reading her influential 1995 book States of Injury, which traced emerging cultural and political logics of late capitalism within a United States frame. We will then follow Brown's continuing exploration of these logics across Politics Out of History (2001), Edgework: Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics (2005), and Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire (2006). Our reading will focus in particular on the conjunction of moralism, tolerance, and neoliberalism across these texts.