FR 1076 - FRENCH INTELLECTUALS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
From environmental issues to gender politics, from the culture of capitalism to universal human rights, from media encroachment to esthetic values, French intellectuals had something to say about it all! In this class, we will discuss the tradition and the contemporary practice of public intervention on the part of writers, artists, sociologists and philosophers in modern France. The class starts with the contemporary figure of French economist Thomas Piketty, and then goes through a chronological review of the significance of enlightenment thinkers such as Voltaire and Rousseau, early critics of capitalist society such as the writers Balzac and Stendhal, Emile Zola’s famous denunciation of anti-Semitism in the French military establishment at the turn of the 19th/20th century, 20th-century French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, feminist thinkers such as Simone de Beauvoir and Monique Wittig, environmental critics such as the un-growth advocate Serge Latouche and postmodern sociologist Jean Baudrillard.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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