POL 1896 - Postmodernity&Deconstruction

Institution:

Yeshiva University

Subject:

Political Science (UM)

Description:

For postmodernists, Hiroshima and the Holocaust nullified the idea of progress that had dominated Western modern thinking since the Enlightenment. Without the idea of progress, how should we understand who we are? This course focuses on the postmodern critique of modernity and its alternative mode of analysis (deconstruction); the postmodern problematic of identity, otherness, moral agency, context and meaning; political issues like power, justice, democracy, postnationalism, postcolonialism.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.yu.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 960-5400

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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