FR4080: CONTEMPORARY FRENCH THOUGHT B (2014-2015)

The course will examine the development of French thought since the 1950s through the study of the writings of a number of important intellectual figures. In particular, we will look at the ways in which each of the writers questions and redefines a particular field of knowledge (such as linguistics, anthropology, philosophy, history or psychoanalysis). In addition, students will extend their understanding of the subject by means of independent research, setting the topics treated in their wider context and synthesizing material from a range of sources.

Jean-Paul Sartre, ‘L’Existentialisme est un humanisme’

Jean-Paul Sartre, Huis Clos

Simone de Beauvoir, ‘Le mythe de la femme’ section from Le Deuxième sexe

Michel Foucault, Histoire de la sexualité I

Pierre Bourdieu, La Distinction (1979)

Pierre Bourdieu, L’Amour de l’art and Les Règles de l’art

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with Contemporary French Thought FR 3080. It will be available in 2014/15 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

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1st Attempt: in-course assessment : one written assignment, ca 2500 words (100%)

The first written assignment has a formative as well as a summative role.

The above assignments receive CAS marks, which the Course Guide links to specific marking criteria, and written or verbal feedback in the form of tutors' comments is also given. Additional informal feedback on performance and tutorial participation is offered in tutorials. Tutors have office hours at which further feedback may be sought.

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