Oct
21
A Selection From Foucault’s Discipline and Punish
October 21, 2010 | 1 Comment
Dearest Philosophers, This Friday we are discussing a selection from: Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish We will focus our discussion around a short selection out of the last chapter of Discipline and Punish. In this selection we will discuss a very interesting view concerning the nature of the prison in modern society. Foucault points out [...]
Oct
6
A Selection From Judith Butler’s Book: Gender Trouble
October 6, 2010 | 29 Comments
Dear Friends, This Friday we are discussing a selection from: Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble Judith Butler claims that there is a problem within feminist theory. Butler claims that there is a problem in being committed to gender categories. Gender categories, for Butler, are inadequate when representing people. As a result of shifting historical contexts (and [...]