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 136-454 Theories of Modernity

Availability

Not offered in 1998.

Credit Points

16.7 4th year

Coordinator

Dr John Rundell

Prerequisites

At least two 200-level Arts subjects.

Contact

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

Subject Description

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. 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 traditions, through which this debate have been generated; demonstrated this understanding through a critical engagement with the historical and theoretical literature.

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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