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Week - 1
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Introduction: Traces of the body in philosophy
• Descartes – Meditations (2. Meditation)
• Platon – Phaidon
• Michel Serres –Five Senses of the Body (Introduction)
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Week - 2
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Introduction: Traces of the body in philosophy
• Descartes – Meditations (2. Meditation)
• Platon – Phaidon
• Michel Serres –Five Senses of the Body (Introduction) |
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Week - 3
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Spinoza: Power of the Body
• Spinoza – Ethica, Chapter II and III
• Deleuze – Spinoza: Practical Philosophy, “What can a body do?"
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Week - 4
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Spinoza: Power of the Body
• Spinoza – Ethica, Chapter II and III
• Deleuze – Spinoza: Practical Philosophy, “What can a body do?"
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Week - 5
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Merleau-Ponty: Embodiment and The Nature of Perception
• Phenomenology of Perception, Introduction and “The Body"
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Week - 6
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Merleau-Ponty: Embodiment and The Nature of Perception
• Phenomenology of Perception, Introduction and “The Body"
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Week - 7
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Deleuze, Guattari and Artaud: Body without Organs
• A Thousand Plateaux, “Body without Organs"
• Artaud – Manifesto for a New Body
• Brian Massumi – Parables for the Virtual
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Week - 8
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Judith Butler: Body, Gender, Repetition
• Gender Trouble, Chapter I
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Week - 9
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Posthumanist Body and Technology
• Donna Haraway – Manifesto of the Syborg
• Rosi Braidotti – The Posthuman
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Week - 10
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Student Presentations |
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Week - 11
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Week - 12
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Week - 13
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Week - 14
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