851-0125-67L Structuralist and Post-Structuralist Approaches to Signs and Knowledge
| Semester | Frühjahrssemester 2020 |
| Dozierende | R. Wagner |
| Periodizität | einmalige Veranstaltung |
| Lehrsprache | Englisch |
| Kurzbeschreibung | This course will review some structuralist and post-structuralist approaches to signs and knowledge. It will start from the French structuralist tradition, continue with the "1968 thinkers", and conclude with feminist and queer critiques of knowledge that rely on this tradition. The theories studied in class will be evaluated in terms of their application to science studies. |
| Lernziel | 1. To introduce the structuralist and post-structuralist tradition, as well as subsequent queer and feminist critiques of knowledge (the thinkers taught in the course will most probably come from the following list: Ferdinand de Saussure, Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, and Donna Harraway). 2. To apply the ideas of this tradition to the context of science studies At the end of the course the students will be able to analyze scientific texts and practices in terms of structuralist, post-structuralist and feminist critique of science. |