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SLN: 22824
Meeting Time: M 3:30pm - 5:20pm
Term: Autumn 2018
Addresses the usefulness of Foucault for thinking about history and thinking historically. Discusses questions of method, politics and ethics of critique, and overview relationships among power, knowledge, and subjectivity in context of modernity that undergirds Foucault’s writings. Focuses on a set of Foucault’s lectures on war, race, security, biopolitics, and on ethics of truth-telling in lectures he gave at the College de France.