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PHL 375 - Foucault: Power, Truth, Subjectivity

Three Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016

Michel Foucault, an influential French thinker of the 20th century, is best known for his analyses of the positive and productive relations between power and knowledge and his exploration of an ethics understood in terms of the care of the self and others. This course is intended to be an in-depth study of his thought, and the primary means of study will be a careful reading and evaluation of a selection of his key writings.
 

Prerequisite(s): One 100-Level Philosophy course.
Course may be applied to the Gender & Sexuality Studies program.