kalu
5th November 2009, 17:25
OK, I have a feeling this might become a clusterf*ck, but it's worth a shot. I propose we select a different book every month to read and discuss. I don't know how we'd go about voting on this, but I assume we just post and if there's a general consensus, someone shouts that book and we all start reading.
My initial proposal: Foucault's Discipline and Punish. It's what first got me into "pomo" and since it's kind of like a historical study, it's not too difficult to "get" versus some of the more insane attempts experimenting with writing in other pomo works.
Addenda:
For those who are interested, some of the key poststructuralist philosophers are: Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva, Judith Butler, Gayatri Spivak, Jacques Lacan, and Jean Baudrillard.
The intellectual genealogy consists of Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, De Saussure (Marxism, psychoanalysis, phenomenology, structuralism). So now would be a good time to brush up on those figures. If you're new to this and freaked out by the list of names, the "easier" ones to read are Marx, Nietzsche, Freud and De Saussure. Phenomenology is a tough nut to crack, so I'd recommend Husserl's Phenomenology by Dan Zahavi as an introduction. Other background reading recommendations are welcome.
My initial proposal: Foucault's Discipline and Punish. It's what first got me into "pomo" and since it's kind of like a historical study, it's not too difficult to "get" versus some of the more insane attempts experimenting with writing in other pomo works.
Addenda:
For those who are interested, some of the key poststructuralist philosophers are: Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva, Judith Butler, Gayatri Spivak, Jacques Lacan, and Jean Baudrillard.
The intellectual genealogy consists of Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, De Saussure (Marxism, psychoanalysis, phenomenology, structuralism). So now would be a good time to brush up on those figures. If you're new to this and freaked out by the list of names, the "easier" ones to read are Marx, Nietzsche, Freud and De Saussure. Phenomenology is a tough nut to crack, so I'd recommend Husserl's Phenomenology by Dan Zahavi as an introduction. Other background reading recommendations are welcome.