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Nov 21, 2024
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CORE 002 SC - Terms of Modernity
This course examines the concepts that structure the possibilities of our (contemporary) world, especially how we “experience” it and attempt to transform it through social and political action. The course will focus most explicitly on the fundamental concept of the “individual” and the characteristics most commonly associated with it: understanding, freedom, equality, family, justice, rights, secularism, to name a few. Too often, we take these concepts and characteristics as givens, and reduce their imperfect realization to the relations and machinations of the material world. In doing so, have we not bought into a false binary between principle and context that has precluded us from understanding these concepts as constituent elements of political power and social organization, and thus from fully appreciating what their potential might be?
Course Credit: 1.0
Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
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