What is the measure of human social interaction and historical change? In what terms should we understand ourselves, our world and our actions?
Progress, reason, justice, the accumulation of capital and more have all been offered up as a lens through which to view our world and its history. In this course, we'll examine past and present institutions and phenomena through the notion of power struggle as defined by different thinkers in different times: Hobbes and Locke, Nietzsche, Arendt, Noam Chomsky and Foucault. Students will choose an object or event and argue how it constitutes a mechanism of power or reflects a particular clash of forces.
- Teaching coordinator: Cassidy Meghann
- Teaching coordinator: Langlois Laura Hilary