Philosophy 336:
CONTEMPORARY FRENCH PHILOSOPHY: FOUCAULT AND DELEUZE

Spring, 1997

Instructor: Alan Schrift
Office: 311 Steiner
Phone: 269-3161
E-mail: schrift@grinnell.edu
Office Hours: MW 2:00 - 4:00, and by appointment
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Required Texts

Internet Resources 

Course Requirements

Schedule

Required Texts

Michel Foucault: The Order of Things
  Discipline and Punish
Deleuze & Guattari: Anti-Oedipus

Course Requirements

This course is organized as a seminar, which means that active student participation is both expected and required. There will be a good deal of reading, and students will be expected to do all of the assigned reading and to come to class ready to discuss and/or ask questions about what they read. Formal work for the class will include the following:

1. Two Seminar Presentations [20% each]:
    The seminar presentation will consist of a 3-5 page written summary of the reading assigned for class. This summary should be duplicated for the members of the class, and will be read in class. In addition to summarizing the assigned reading, the written summary can (and should) raise questions for discussion. These questions can be exegetical (e.g., "what does Foucault mean by ‘panopticism’?"), critical (e.g., "is Foucault correct when he says that ‘man’ is a recent invention?"), associative/comparative (e.g., "does Foucault’s notion of genealogy add anything to Nietzsche’s?")
       
2. Term Paper: [40%]
    18-20 page research paper, due on May 14. No extensions will be granted except for medical emergency. The specific topic for this paper will be determined by the student in consultation with the instructor. In connection with this final paper, keep in mind the following requirements/deadlines:
       
    April 10: turn in a one-paragraph description of topic with annotated bibliography.
    April 17: turn in detailed outline.
    April 24: turn in 2 copies (one anonymous) of a 5-page thesis statement that describes your project in some detail. One copy will be evaluated by the instructor, and one copy will be evaluated by a fellow student.
    April 28: turn in comments on one another's thesis statements (copy final page summary and submit this to the instructor).
    May 14: Paper Due.
       
3. Position Papers: [10%]
    Each week, submit on Tuesday a one-page typed comment on some aspect of the reading of that week. These papers will be graded, and will be figured into your class participation grade component. They will provide you with an opportunity to try out theses/topics for possible papers.
       
4. Discussion questions:
    For each class in which you will not be providing a seminar presentation, you must send to me via e-mail a question for discussion. These questions must be submitted by 4:00 pm on the day before class, and I will circulate them to you via e-mail by 5:00 pm of that same day.

The final grade will be determined on the basis of these writing assignments and general performance in class [10%] during the course of the semester.

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ATTENDANCE: You are expected to attend class. Although attendance normally will not be taken, more than three unexcused absences will result in a lowering of your grade for the class participation component. More than SIX unexcused absences will result in failure of the course.

LATE POLICY: Written assignments which are submitted late will be penalized one letter grade for each 24 hours late. Papers submitted more than 48 hours late will NOT be accepted. Exceptions to this policy will be made only for medical reasons.

Internet Resources

Information on Foucault and Deleuze can be located at the following sites:

http://cougar.vut.edu.au/~jongr/Deleuze.html

http://WWW.CSUN.Edu:80/~hfspc002/foucault.home.html

There is also an active discussion group as part of the "Spoon Collective" for Foucault and another for Deleuze and Guattari. If you would like more information on these groups, let me know.

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PHILOSOPHY 336: Tentative Course Outline

Week of  
   
Jan. 21 Introduction.
Jan. 23 The Order of Things, Preface and Chapter One
   
Jan. 28 OT, Chapter Two
Jan. 30 OT, Chapter Three
   
Feb. 4 OT, Chapter Four
Feb. 6 OT, Chapter Five
   
Feb. 11 OT, Chapter Six
Feb. 13 OT, Chapter Seven
   
Feb. 18 OT, Chapter Eight
Feb. 20 OT, Chapter Nine
   
Feb. 25 OT, Chapter Nine
Feb. 27 OT, Chapter Ten
   
Mar. 2 Anti-Oedipus
Mar. 4  
   
Mar. 11 Anti-Oedipus
Mar. 13  
   
March 15-April 1 SPRING BREAK
   
Apr. 1 Discipline and Punish, Part One
Apr. 3 DP, Part Two
   
Apr. 8 DP, Part Three, Chapter 1
Apr. 10 DP, Part Three, Chapter 2
   
April 10: one-paragraph description plus annotated bibliography due
   
Apr. 15 DP, Part Three, Chapter 3
Apr. 17 DP, Part Four, Chapter 1
   
April 17: detailed outline due
   
Apr. 22 DP, Part Four, Chapter 2
Apr. 24 DP, Part Four, Chapter 3
   
April 24: 2 copies (one anonymous) of 5-page thesis statement due
   
April 28: graded thesis statements due
   
Apr. 29, May 1, May 6 Seminar Reports
   
May 13 PAPERS DUE

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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

MICHEL FOUCAULT (1926-1984)
     
  Madness and Civilization (1961, abridged translation)
  Mental Illness and Psychology (1962)
  Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond Roussel (1963)
  The Birth of the Clinic: An Archeology of Medical Perception (1963)
  The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (1966)
  The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969)
  The Discourse on Language (1972)
  This Is Not A Pipe (1973)
  Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1975)
  The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction (1976)
  Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews (1977)
  Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977 (1980)
  The History of Sexuality, Volume II: The Uses of Pleasure (1984)
  The History of Sexuality, Volume III: The Care of the Self (1984)
  The Foucault Reader (1984, ed. by P. Rabinow)
  Foucault/Blanchot (1987)
  Technologies of the Self (1988, ed. by Martin, Gutman, and Hutton)
  Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and other Writings 1977-1984 (1988, ed. L. Kritzman)
  Remarks on Marx (1991, ed. J. Goldstein)
     
Secondary Sources
     
  Jonathan Arac, ed. After Foucault: Humanistic Knowledges, Postmodern Challenges (1989)
  Timothy Armstrong Michel Foucault, Philosopher (1992)
  Michele Barrett The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault (1991)
  James W. Bernauer, ed. The Final Foucault: Studies on Michel Foucault's Last Works (1988)
  Graham Burchell et al., eds The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality (1991)
  J. Caputo & M. Yount Foucault and the Critique of Institutions (1993)
  David Carroll Paraesthetics: Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida (1987)
  M. Cousins & A. Hussain Michel Foucault (1984)
  Gilles Deleuze Foucault (1988)
  Peter Dews Logics of Disintegration: Post-Structuralist Thought and the Claims of Critical Theory (1987)
  I. Diamond & L. Quinby, ed. Feminism and Foucault: Reflections on Resistance (1988)
  H. Dreyfus & P. Rabinow Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics (1983)
  Didier Eribon Michel Foucault (1991)
  Luc Ferry & A. Renaut French Philosophy of the Sixties: An Essay on Antihumanism (1990)
  Nancy Fraser Unduly Practices: Power, Discourse, and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory (1989)
  Mike Gane, ed. Towards a Critique of Foucault (1986)
  Jürgen Habermas The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (1987)
  David Hoy, ed. Michel Foucault: A Critical Reader (1986)
  Axel Honneth The Critique of Power (1991)
  C. Lemert & G. Gillan Michel Foucault: Social Theory and Transgression (1982)
  David Macey The Lives of Michel Foucault (1993)
  Michael Mahon Foucault’s Nietzschean Genealogy: Truth, Power, and the Subject (1992)
  Allan Megill Prophets of Extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault and Derrida (1985)
  J. G. Merquior Foucault (1985)
  James Miller The Passion of Michel Foucault (1993)
  Jeffrey Minson Genealogies of Morals: Nietzsche, Foucault, Donzelot and the Eccentricity of Ethics (1985)
  R. Miguel-Alfonso et al., ed Reconstructing Foucault: Essays in the Wake of the 80s (1994)
  M. Morris & P. Patton, ed. Foucault: Power, Truth, Strategy (1979)
  David Owen Maturity and Modernity: Nietzsche, Weber, Foucault and the Ambivalence of Reason (1994)
  Mark Poster Foucault, Marxism, and History (1984)
  Karlis Racevskis Michel Foucault and the Subversion of Intellect (1983)
  John Rajchman Michel Foucault: The Freedom of Philosophy (1985)
  Edward Said The World, the Text, and the Critic (1983)
  Charles E. Scott The Language of Difference (1987)
  Alan D. Schrift Nietzsche’s French Legacy: A Genealogy of Poststructuralism (1995)
  Alan Sheridan Michel Foucault: The Will to Truth (1980)
  Barry Smart Foucault, Marxism, and Critique (1983)
    Michel Foucault (1985)
  Kate Soper Humanism and Anti-Humanism (1986)
  Rudi Visker Michel Foucault: Genealogy as Critique (1995)
     
   

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GILLES DELEUZE (1925-1995)
     
  Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty; Venus in Furs (1971; 1985)
  Proust and Signs (1972)  
  Nietzsche and Philosophy (1983)
  Kant's Critical Philosophy (1984)
  Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (1986)
  Foucault (1988)  
  Bergsonism (1988)  
  Spinoza: Practical Philosophy (1988)
  Cinema 2: The Time-Image (1989)
  The Logic of Sense (1990)  
  Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza (1990)
  Empiricism and Subjectivity: An Essay on Hume's Theory of Human Nature (1991)
  The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque (1992)
  Difference and Repetition (1994)
  Negotiations 1970-1990 (1995)
  Francis Bacon: Logique de la Sensation (Paris, 2 vols, 1984; 1st edn.1981)
  Périclès et Verdi: La Philosophie de François Châtelet (Paris, 1988)
  Critique et Clinique (Paris, 1993)
     
GILLES DELEUZE and FÉLIX GUATTARI (1930-1992)
     
  Anti-Oedipus (1983)  
  Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature (1986)
  A Thousand Plateaus (1987)
  What is Philosophy? (1994)
     
GILLES DELEUZE and CLAIRE PARNET
     
  Dialogues (1987)  
     
   

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FÉLIX GUATTARI
     
  Molecular Revolution: Psychiatry and Politics (1984)
  Chaosmosis: An Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm (1995)
     
Secondary Sources
     
  Ronald Bogue Deleuze and Guattari (1989)
  Rosi Braidotti Patterns of Dissonance (1991)
    Nomadic Subjects (1994)
  Constantin Boundas The Deleuze Reader (1993)
  C. Boundas & D. Olkowski Gilles Deleuze and the Theater of Philosophy (1994)
  Vincent Descombes Modern French Philosophy (1980)
  Manfred Frank What is Neo-Structuralism?
  Philip Goodchild Gilles Deleuze and the Question of Philosophy (1996)
  Michael Hardt Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy
  Alice Jardine Gynesis: Configurations of Woman in Modernity (1985)
  Jean-Jacques Lecercle Philosophy through the Looking Glass (1985)
  Brian Massumi A User’s Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1993)
  Alan D. Schrift Nietzsche’s French Legacy: A Genealogy of Poststructuralism (1995)

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