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Class number:
2837
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Title: Friendship, Love, and Desire |
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Department: Philosophy |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Lecture |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 29 |
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Current enrollment: 29 |
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Available seats: 0 |
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Start date: Tuesday, January 21, 2025 |
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End date: Friday, May 9, 2025 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: WF: 2:55PM-4:10PM, MECC - 246 |
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Instructor(s): De Schryver, Carmen |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities Requirement |
Course Description:
This course provides an introduction to the philosophical study of friendship, love, and desire. Through an engagement with a range of philosophical and literary traditions, we will explore what our close relationships with others have to do with knowledge, justice, and the good. We will discuss a number of questions, such as: Is equality a precondition of friendship? Are our close attachments in tension with the demands of impartiality? What is the relationship between distance and desire? Do we see the world more clearly through love, or does love, instead, obfuscate reality? Is the demand to respond to injustice with love ever defensible? Some of the thinkers we will be looking at include Iris Murdoch, James Baldwin, Jacques Derrida, Audre Lorde, David Velleman, and Anne Carson. |