SOSC 2350 Lecture Notes - Post-Structuralism, Complex Differential Form, Harm Principle
8 Jan 2013
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This material moves us beyond our assigned readings: this lecture will be an extension of our readings, how can you use foucault to talk about or analyze/ deploy the law. Foucault is going to be important as we go forward in the term. He was an important french social theorist of extraordinary intellect. He was world-famous and is referred to as a political theorist, cultural critic and historian (technically not: he"s important and he was a professor at in france. He had huge impact on areas such as sociology, criminology, police studies, culture studies, literary studies, historiography, marxism, gay studies and many more areas: he makes major poststructuralist claims: For example, sexuality does not exist except as a part of discursive formation: poststructuralist: characterized as something essential: the denying of the human being as the privileged object of philosophical analysis.
