Syllabus for English 597: Post Structuralist Rhetorical Practices
January 14, 2009
Introduction; read de Man, “Semiology and Rhetoric”
January 21, 2009
Read Plato, Phaedrus
Ecstatic Mysteries: On the admixture of a rhetorical Kykeon in the Phaedruss
From the Symposium: "This is one of his habits: Sometimes he goes off and stands still wherever he happens to be."
The Extended Phenotype of Rhetoric: What form can inhabit that space of "Negative Assuramce" discussed and sought by De Man? The ecological scene of rhetoric. ( Or, After the Effects of Cicadae, with special reference to Darwin)
Forms of Nothing and becomings-hooved: Upanishadic Resonances in the Phaedrus
January 28, 2009
Plato, cont.; read The Sophist
Critical Injury: Torture and the Sophist
February 4, 2009
Read Derrida, “White Mythology” (in Margins of Philosophy)
Read Derrida, \"Plato's Pharmacy\"
A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer
Read Derrida, "Differance"
FEB 11
Read, Nietzsche, “On Truth and Lying in an Extra-Moral Sense” (web) and The Birth of Tragedy
February 18, 2009
Nietzsche, cont.; read Thus Spoke Zarathustra
February 25, 2009
Nietzsche, cont.;
Read Deleuze, “Nomad Thought,” xerox?
March 4, 2009
Hegel (to section 4. Also: pp. 420 - 439.
Butler xerox
March 11, 2009 - Spring Break Reenactments; No class
March 18
How to Do Things With Words, Austin
SEC, Derrida
How Not to Deconstruct a Dominican, Ian Almond
March 25, 2009
Discipline and Punish
April 1, 2009
Of Grammatology
April Fools!
baudrillard
April 8, 2009
Lyotard (and lacan, insistence of the letter?)
April 15, 2009
TP
April 22, 2009
A Thousand Plateaus, cont
April 29, 2009
May 6, 2009 - Projects Due - Reports
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1. Austin, J.L. How to do Things With Words.
Harvard University Press; 2nd edition (September 1, 1975)
ISBN-10: 0674411528
2. Deleuze, Gilles, and Felix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus
Paperback: 610 pages
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press (December 1987)
Language: English; ISBN-10: 0816614024
3. Simulations. Jean Baudrillard
Paperback: 169 pages
Publisher: Semiotext(e) (January 1, 1983); ISBN-10: 0936756020
4. Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage (April 25, 1995)
Language: English; ISBN-10: 0679752552
5. Hegel, GWF. Phenomenology of Spirit (Miller translation)
Paperback: 640 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (February 1, 1979)
Language: English; ISBN-10: 0198245971
6. Klossowski, P. Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle
Paperback: 282 pages
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group (April 2005)
Language: English; ISBN-10: 0826477194
7. Lyotard, J-F, and Thebaud. Just Gaming
Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press (December 1985)
Language: English; ISBN-10: 0816612773
8. Plato, The Sophist, (trans White);
Hackett, 1993. 087220202X
9. Plato, Phaedrus, (Trans Nehemas); Hackett, 1995.
0872202208
10. Derrida, j. of Grammatology
Paperback: 456 pages
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press; Corrected edition (January 8, 1998)
Language: English; ISBN-10: 0801858305
11. Derrida, J. Margins of Philosophy
Paperback: 330 pages
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (January 1, 1985)
Language: English; ISBN-10: 0226143260
12. Derrida, J Dissemination
- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (February 15, 1983)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0226143341
13. Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Birth of Tragedy & the Case of Wagner
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage; 1st Vintage Ed edition (April 12, 1967)
Language: English; ISBN-10: 0394703693
14. Nietzsche, Friedrich. Thus Spoke Zarathrustra
Paperback: 316 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (July 17, 2006)
Language: English; ISBN-10: 0521602610
Recommended
Baudrillard, Simulations
Baudrillard, The Ecstasy of Communication
Foucault, Deleuze
Valis, Philip K. Dick
Paper: No blankity reading of Blank!
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