| September 30, October 2 | Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy |
| October 7, 9 | F. W. Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols |
| October 14, 16 | Sigmund Freud, Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis |
| October 21, 23 | Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics, selections |
| October 28, 30 | Jacques Derrida, "Structure, Sign, and Play" |
| November 4, 6 | Jacques Lacan, "The Agency of the Letter in
the Unconscious" |
| November 13 | Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text |
| November 18 | Michel Foucault, from The Foucault Reader: "Truth and Power"; "What is an Author?" |
| November 26 | Michel Foucault, from The Foucault Reader: "The Body of the Condemned"; "Panopticism"; "Right of Death and Power Over Life"; "We 'Other Victorians'"; "The Repressive Hypothesis" |
| December 2, 4 | Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, "Introduction: Rhizome" |
| December 9 |
Luce Irigaray, This Sex Which Is Not One (Selections) |
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Jean Baudrillard, Symbolic Exchange and Death |
Books by Descartes, Nietzsche, Freud, Barthes, and Foucault have been ordered from the University Bookstore. Selections from Saussure, Derrida, Lacan, Irigaray, Baudrillard, and Deleuze and Guattari, are photocopied in the class reader available at the Odegaard Copy Center.
Class Requirements: weekly response sheets (50% of grade); a take-home final, with questions given out on December 10, due on December 17 (50% of grade).