| Termin/e |
Di, 17.02.2026, 10:15 - 12:00 Uhr, HS 14
Di, 24.02.2026, 10:15 - 12:00 Uhr, HS 14
Di, 03.03.2026, 10:15 - 12:00 Uhr, HS 14
Di, 10.03.2026, 10:15 - 12:00 Uhr, HS 14
Di, 17.03.2026, 10:15 - 12:00 Uhr, HS 14
Di, 24.03.2026, 10:15 - 12:00 Uhr, HS 14
Di, 31.03.2026, 10:15 - 12:00 Uhr, HS 14
Di, 14.04.2026, 10:15 - 12:00 Uhr, HS 14
Di, 21.04.2026, 10:15 - 12:00 Uhr, HS 14
Di, 28.04.2026, 10:15 - 12:00 Uhr, HS 14
Di, 05.05.2026, 10:15 - 12:00 Uhr, HS 14
Di, 12.05.2026, 10:15 - 12:00 Uhr, HS 14
Di, 19.05.2026, 10:15 - 12:00 Uhr, HS 14
Di, 26.05.2026, 10:15 - 12:00 Uhr, HS 14 |
| Inhalt |
Michel Foucault is one of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the 20th Century. He has given us new glasses to look at and make sense of the various interrelated practices (political, economic, scientific ones) and institutions (e.g. prisons, hospitals, schools) constituting our Western form of life. He has transformed the ways in which we relate to various forms of knowledge and practice theory and philosophy. In this seminar, we concentrate on one of his most central research questions and problems, namely on the process of constitution of human subjectivity through specific discourses, that correspond to and open up dynamics of power. In particular, we take into consideration discourses around mental illness, sexuality and (self-)care. We read Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, as well as Volume I and Volume II of his History of Sexuality (The Will to Knowledge and The Use of Pleasure). We will also read a recent ‘re-use’ of Foucault’s method and ideas in the Post-#MeToo age, namely Katherine Angel’s Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent (2021). |