Philosophy for Anti- or Non-Philosophers

3.0 credits · Graduate

Old ‘anti-philosophy’ revised appealing to Wittgenstein; ‘non-philosophy’ in Althusserian legacy (Badiou, Žižek). Challenges from classical studies (Loraux, Detienne, Vernant, ‘Hermes the thief’ (Brown), political economy, theology, anthropology, psychoanalysis, natural sciences and mathematics (STEM and AI), gender studies, creative arts, and within philosophy itself: propositions that ‘philosophy’ be replaced by ‘thinking’ (Heidegger) and ‘everyone is a philosopher’ (Gramsci). Philosophical history articulated as ‘his-story’ (Weil, Beauvoir, Kofman, Irigaray), against method’ (Feyerabend),’ ‘method v. truth‘ (Gadamer), ‘transcritique’ (Karatani) ‘writing of the disaster’ (Blanchot), ‘creation and anarchy’ (Agamben), ‘the unnamable’ (Beckett), ‘Saint Paul, a screenplay’ (Pasolini); throughout, ‘the question of style’ (Gramsci) or ‘literary style’ (Silva).