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 136-080 Theories of Modernity

Note

Formerly available as 136-454. Students who have completed 136-454 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Dr John Rundell

Prerequisites

Admission to Fourth Year combined Honours.

Semester

1 (view timetable)

Contact

A 2-hour seminar per week

Subject Description

In this subject 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 totalling 5000 words.

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