ANTHR 6045

The Task of Thinking

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Course information provided by the 2022-2023 Catalog.

This seminar will introduce multiple texts and approaches organized around the concept of thinking. It will involve careful and close reading of texts in phenomenology, critical theory, political-economy, psychoanalysis, subaltern studies, Black Studies, and anthropology. What is critique and is it necessarily secular? What does it mean to invert speculative thought in order to analyze the commodity-form? What is the relationship between thinking and time? What is embodied thinking? What is a hermeneutic of suspicion? Is all thought Black thought? How does desire and the unconscious shape our orientation in thinking? What are the political and epistemological consequences of fieldwork?

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