E 387M   Spring 2010

Schedule

Aug 25: Introduction (Gorgias, Aristotle, and Plato)

Sept 1: Austin, How To Do Things With Words

Sept 8: Derrida, “Signature, Event, Context," in Limited Inc

Sept 15: Paper 1

Sept 22: Searle Speech Act Theory

Sept 29: Derrida, "Limited Inc a b c" and "Afterword: Toward an Ethic of Discussion," in Limited Inc

Oct 6: Derrida and Searle, cont.

Oct 13: paper 2

Oct 20: Felman, The Scandal of the Speaking Body

Oct 27: Butler, Excitable Speech

Nov 3: de Man “Rhetoric of Tropes” and “Rhetoric of Persuasion” in Allegories of Reading; Ronell “Rhetoric of Testing” in Stupidity

Nov 10— Freud “Psychical Treatment” and Preface to Bernheim's Suggestive Therapeutics; Borch-Jacobsen “Analytic Speech: From a Restricted to a General Rhetoric”; and Davis “Identification: Burke and Freud on Who You Are.”

Nov 17— paper 3

Nov 24—Thanksgiving

Dec 1 –Deleuze and Guattari, "Postulates of Linguistics" from A Thousand Plateaus. AND: Introduce to the class (5 minutes) what you have done in paper 4, a 10-ish page, double-spaced seminar paper, which you will submit electronically by December 6