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Class number:
3083
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Title: Enlightenment Identities |
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Department: Humanities Gateway |
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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 19 |
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Current enrollment: 16 |
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Available seats: 3 |
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Start date: Monday, January 31, 2022 |
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End date: Monday, May 16, 2022 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: MW: 1:15PM-2:30PM, SH - S205 |
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Instructor(s): Assaiante, Julia |
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Prerequisite(s): Only students in the Humanities Gateway Program are allowed to enroll in this course. |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities and Global Requirements |
Course Description:
This course will examine the various legacies of the European Enlightenment regarding conceptions of identity, with a particular emphasis on the role of women and of race. A key aspect of the course will be to interrogate the tension between Enlightenment constructions of gender and racial identity and the concomitant valorization of universal ideals regarding rational, human subjectivity. Readings will include the works of Kant, Rousseau, Herder, Hume, Wollstonecraft, Foucault, Adorno as well as the work of contemporary scholars on the ways in which the European Enlightenment gave rise to modern ideas of race and gender. |