(** indicates selections I’ll give you. )
Week 1
Jan 21 -- Introduction to course, syllabus, and artifact paper . Get prefered email addresses for wiki signup.
Week 2
Jan 28 -- Paper 1: artifact presentation + sign up for reading leader slots
Week 3
Feb 4 -- Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
- Reading Leaders: Robert McDonald and Amanda Wall
Week 4
Feb 11 -- Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
- Reading Leaders (2): Chris Mays and Trevor Hoag
Week 5
Feb 18 -- Levinas, "Face," "Is Ontology Fundamental?" "Phenomenon and Enigma"
- Reading Leaders (2): Michael Roberts and Will Burdette
Week 6
Feb 25 -- Levinas, "Substitution," "Essence and Disinterestedness" + Nouveau, “An Impossible Response: The Disaster of Narcissus.”**
- Reading Leader: Sean McCarthy and Cleve Wiese
Week 7
March 4 –Paper 2 (on Nietzsche or Levinas)
Week 8
March 11 – No class: 4Cs
Week 9
March 18 – No class: Spring Break
Week 10
March 25-- Ronell Stupidity
- Reading Leaders (2): Kristin Stimpson and Chris Taylor
Week 11
April 1 –Ronell, cont
Week 12
April 8 – Derrida, Of Hospitality
- Reading Leader: Matt Morris
Week 13
April 15 -- Derrida, On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness
- Reading Leader: Brad King
Week 14
April 22 –Paper 3 (on Ronell or Derrida)
Week 15
April 29 – Lispector, The Passion according to GH + Cixous extracts**
- Reading Leaders: Sarah Vartabedian and Rodrigo Oliveira
Week 16
May 6 – Butler, Giving Account of Oneself
- Reading Leader: Charlotte Nunes
- Class evaluations
Wed, May 13 by 5pm-- Final paper on Lispector or Butler due by email.