260005 The Destruction of Experience (GradS) (SoSe 2019)

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Öffnung für max. 10 BA-Studierende; Course given in English

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Der Kurs wird überwiegend in englischer Sprache stattfinden, Diskussionen können aber auf Deutsch geführt werden. Auch Studien- und ggf. Prüfungsleistungen können auf Deutsch erbracht werden.

In the 1930s Walter Benjamin argued that the economic, political, and material destruction of the First World War had led to a “poverty of experience” in 20th-century European culture. In the 1970s Giorgio Agamben radicalized this theme, renaming it the “destruction of experience” and claiming that later culture had reconceived human subjectivity in a way that “expropriated” genuine experience. We will read the Benjamin and Agamben essays and related works (by Montaigne, Poe, Hegel, Blanchot, Freud, Bataille, Malabou, and others), asking what “experience” means here, what its destruction might consist in, and what we are supposed to do about it. In particular we will ask whether 20th-century insights (such as Agamben's) into the structure of human subjectivity are separable from the modernist pessimism that frequently accompanies them.

Lectures will be primarily in English, with discussion in English and/or German.

Requirements for participation, required level

DIES IST EIN FACHWISSENSCHAFTLICHES MASTER-SEMINAR.
An diesem Seminar können insgesamt maximal 10 Bachelor- und Master of Education-Studierende teilnehmen. Für alle Studierenden, die regulär im fachw. Master Philosophie eingeschrieben sind, gilt keine Teilnehmerbegrenzung.
Diese Veranstaltung ist konzipiert für Masterstudierende im Fach Philosophie. Bachelor-Studierende der Philosophie oder andere Studierende können nur teilnehmen, wenn sie das Anmeldeverfahren durchlaufen und eine Zusage des Dozierenden bekommen haben. Zur Anmeldung senden Sie der Veranstalterin/dem Veranstalter eine E-Mail mit Angabe Ihres Namens, des Fachsemesters in dem Sie sein werden und mit einer Begründung, warum Sie an diesem Seminar teilnehmen wollen. Sie erhalten rechtzeitig Bescheid, ob Sie an der Veranstaltung teilnehmen dürfen.

Bibliography

Giorgio Agamben, Kindheit und Geschichte (Suhrkamp) // OA: Infanzia e storia (Einaudi)
Catherine Malabou, Ontologie des Akzidentiellen (Merve) // OA: Ontologie de l'accident (Éditions Léo Scheer)

[Other texts will be provided (in their original languages and in German translation where relevant) as PDFs.]

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weekly Di 10-12 C3-241 02.04.-09.07.2019

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Module Course Requirements  
26-HM_TP5_ET Hauptmodul TP5: Erkenntnistheorie Seminar 1 Study requirement
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26-HM_TP6_PG Hauptmodul TP6: Philosophie des Geistes Seminar 1 Study requirement
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26-M-TP_GR Grundlagenmodul Theoretische Philosophie Seminar 1 Study requirement
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26-M-TP_VE Vertiefungsmodul Theoretische Philosophie Seminar 1 Study requirement
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26-M-TP_VO Vortragsmodul Theoretische Philosophie Seminar 1 Study requirement
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26-VT_PDG Vertiefung Philosophie des Geistes Seminar 1 Study requirement
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graduate seminar (GradS) / 2
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