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Spring 2013 First-Year Seminar BC1289 section 001 VIOLENCE AND JUSTICE | |
| Call Number | 03109 |
| Day & Time Location |
TR 2:40pm-3:55pm 201 Lehman Hall (Barnard) |
| Points | 3 |
| Approvals Required | None |
| Instructor | Ayten Gundogdu |
| Type | SEMINAR |
| Course Description | What is the relationship between violence and justice? Are these mutually exclusive terms or do they at times overlap? Is violent disobedience of law unjustifiable at all times? How about violence used by to draw attention to questions of injustice? This first year seminar aims to inquire into these challenging questions by studying the theoretical debates on the relationship between violence, politics, and justice (e.g. Sorel, Fanon, Arendt, Zizek), analyzing different conceptions of civil disobedience (e.g. Plato, Thoreau, Marcuse, Rawls, Habermas), looking at examples of political struggles (e.g. civil rights movement, student protests of late 60s, labor movement, anti-colonial struggle, anti-globalization protests, suffragettes), and grappling with the question of how representations of violence affect our judgment about its legitimacy (e.g. Conrad's Secret Agent). |
| Web Site | CourseWorks |
| Department | First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard |
| Enrollment | 16 students as of 11:48PM Thursday, May 23, 2013 |
| Subject | First-Year Seminar |
| Number | BC1289 |
| Section | 001 |
| Division | Barnard College |
| Open To | Barnard |
| Campus | Barnard College |
| Section key | 20131FYSB1289X001 |
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