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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Social Theory

136-454 Theories of Modernity

Credit Points:

16.7 4th year

Coordinator:

Dr John Rundell

Prerequisite/s:

At least two 200-level Arts subjects.

Timetable:

Semester 2

Contact:

Up to three hours of lectures, seminars or tutorials a week

Objectives:

Students completing this subject should have:

  • developed an understanding of the major conceptual debates concerning the meaning of modernity;

  • gained an awareness of the selected philosophical and theoretical tradition, through which this debate has been generated;

  • demonstrated this understanding through a critical engagement with the historical and theoretical literature.

Content:

The images of the 'city', 'progress', 'the public' and 'the nation' will be used to establish some of the features of modernity. The way modernity is understood will also be explored through various critical theories of modernity.

Assessment:

A seminar paper and a long essay, together totalling 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts:

  • Adorno T & Horkheimer M, The Dialectic of Enlightenment
  • Berman M, All That is Solid Melts into Air
  • Foucault M., Discipline and Punishment
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