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Class number:
2842
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Title: Decolonizing Philosophy |
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Department: Philosophy |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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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 15 |
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Current enrollment: 14 |
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Available seats: 1 |
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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: M: 1:30PM-4:10PM, MECC - 260 |
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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:
In this course, we will think critically about the meaning of academic decolonization and various strategies for reforming the philosophical canon with decolonial aims in view. Some of the questions that will guide us include: what does it mean to decolonize philosophy, and what are the advantages and disadvantages of remaining in dialogue with the Western canon? Does the philosophical tradition present openings to decolonial thought? What are the various decolonizing strategies, and what aims do they enact? The course then sets into action one such strategy, which involves re-reading the "canon" of European philosophical through the perspective of decolonial philosophies. |